Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With the flexibility that came with pandemic-era school, they’re not used to firm deadlines or strict grading. Today’s students also report greater mental health struggles , which some experts attribute to excessive social media use. Often routine textbook readings aren’t graded, she says, so a student likely won’t prioritize it.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot.

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Education Testing Feedback English 296

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Psychology “Do Now” Writing Prompts & Slides By Loosli Learning Grades: 9th-12th Subjects: Psychology Ideal for psychology classes or any subject focused on critical thinking, these do now writing prompts are an intriguing way to start the day. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Describe the perfect summer.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Stephen Guerriero, sixth grade teachers at Needham Public Schools in Needham, Mass.: Susanna Stratford, third grade teacher at Maple Hills Elementary in Renton, Wash.: “I Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: I love snail mail!

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 158

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. But ThinkCERCA is more than just a traditional framework; the online program provides a lesson library with texts related to literature, math, science, and social studies.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 274

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In June 2017, DoAmaral left Oakland Unified, where she had been teaching AP-level history and social studies subjects for five years. On April 6, she did a livestream session where she answered students’ questions, and pulled up a Google Doc on screen to show them how to write an essay. It was a date I will never forget.

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Testing Exams Teachers History 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Doing what normal teachers do, we commiserated around the unstable workload that we each experienced in our own contexts: grading, lesson planning, data analysis, ad hoc administrative requirements, and an assortment of additional educational woes. Each week, students post, react, and upload media messages that are scored on a common rubric.

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Teaching Social Studies Essay Exams 146

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Are these freedoms only limited to the area of English Language Arts or Social Studies? Author Study. Example project: A poster project could be done digitally, such as this example , created by a 6th grade student for the novel Bridge to Terabithia (meeting standard RL.6.3). What are my options? Character Interview.

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Learning Essay Social Studies Language 112

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

It changed our day-to-day writing instruction practices, gave students more power over their own learning, and happily, made writing exercises more real and applicable for other departments like social studies. It also gave us our initial essay scores to compare pre- and post-performance. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Math Continental Mathematics League (CML) is a national competition designed for students in grades 2 through 12. Reading Word Masters is a national competition for students in grades 3-8 that focuses on vocabulary and verbal reasoning. Battle of the Books is a voluntary reading incentive program for students in grades 3-12.

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Critical Thinking Essay Participation Math 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas. Huynh has personal experience with this.

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English Language Languages Testing 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 11, 2025

Since moving to Italy in 2011, shes published two books of essays and a novel in Italian, and has translated some of her own writings and those of other authors from Italian into English. Asian Pacific American Heritage Month Influential People Posters and Pennants By Real Life in the Classroom Grades: 1st-6th Subjects: U.S.

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Teaching Social Studies History Writing 93

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Implementation ideas Curriculum design: Instead of generic prompts like “create a lesson plan on photosynthesis,” a high-impact prompt would be: “Design a 40-minute 6th grade lesson plan on photosynthesis, including a hands-on activity, vocabulary support for ELL students, and one formative assessment question.”

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Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 224