Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

Perfect as bell-ringers, exit tickets, or brain breaks for high school , these five-minute writing ideas are a great way to get students into a writing state of mind right after the bell rings. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

They want to know exactly how I have managed that as a high school English teacher. If students are working 0n an essay, I dedicate one station each day to providing real-time feedback as they write. Before we end our conversation, I turn to them and ask, “Do you have any questions?”

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Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

As another survey conducted on September 3, 2024, by Brainly.com of 1,500 students revealed, 72 percent of high school students are stressed about returning to school this year. percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 This post originally appeared on Brainly’s blog and is republished here with permission.

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Essay Ethics Schools Students 286

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It’s generally easy to determine if students have used an AI tool to generate a response to a writing assignment or to generate an entire essay. We have to rethink the full-length essay as the end-all, be-all for assessing student writing skills,” Miller said. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

Burns opening quote is a reminder that teaching is purpose-driven work and that student growth and development depend on supporting teachers and school leaders. Before we usher in the 2025-2026 EdSurge Voices of Change Fellows, we want to reflect on the important themes our recent cohort of fellows wrote about in their personal essays.

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Education Essay Culture Math 126

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

According to a survey , as many as 58 percent of high school students have plagiarized work, and 95 percent admitted to some form of cheating. Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly.

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Plagiarism Education Assignments Essay 331

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

While it traditionally is an assessment tool for college-bound seniors, more and more high schools are choosing it as an exit exam for graduating seniors (such as these changes in Ohio and the State of Washington ). In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. take practice tests. Freemium, iOS.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 99

eSchool News

AUGUST 19, 2022

An upgrade from our previous Essay Review product, Paper users can now submit more than traditional essay assignments; lab reports, assignments, short-answer questions, and bibliographies are all accepted types of content. Today’s students take many different paths after high school.

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Essay Feedback Math Assignments 258

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

AI’s rise in popularity has brought with it questions about ethics, skills students will need for workplace success, and how to balance negatives with positives when it comes to teaching with this new generative tool. Here are five insights around AI in education: What is the best AI tool for teachers? How can AI be used in teaching?

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Ethics Education Internet Essay 301

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

The app offers a personalized feed of entertaining and educational videos, images, questions, and memes, ensuring that students remain engaged while mastering the material. “TeachTap is a game-changer for students preparing for AP exams and studying high school courses. Chief Product Officer Phil Hewinson.

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Exams High School High School History 141

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

Recently, I was in a meeting with department chairs and administrators at my high school. After discussing revisions to our existing policies, a colleague added, “We have to go back to old-school methods. It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. That’s the only way to get around this.”

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 216

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2024

As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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Motivation Teachers Essay Languages 209

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

high school students have been quick to embrace artificial intelligence (AI), with 46 percent saying they use AI tools to help them with their school work. But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer. But even with all this excitement, there are still many questions to answer.

Academic Integrity 241

Academic Integrity Intelligence Essay Plagiarism 241

eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2020

Essay topics, discussion questions, full texts of literary classics, editorially curated Topic Centers, interactive games and quizzes, and self-assessment questions allow students to easily delve deep into their subject matter and test themselves along the way.

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Distance Learning Quizzes Essay Schools 193

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Lecture + Digital Formative Assessment I recently attended a local conference and the keynote was delivered by Aaron Polansky , superintendent from Old Colony Regional Vocational Technical High School in Rochester, Mass. Instead I’m encouraging them to think of those essays as an important step in a more authentic process.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but it would inevitably lead to me manically red inking papers that ultimately were written because I assigned an essay that would only ever be read by me. To what end? Constitution?

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

A similar question was asked by McKinsey three years ago , right before the worldwide pandemic caused the lowest reading and math scores in 30 years. Schools must support teachers as humans; AI can help them reduce preparation time and act as an instruction supplement. “We’re Would that change the game?

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One cause is the pandemic, and how it disrupted middle and high school for today’s traditional-aged college students. That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 199

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” Investors have plowed over $2 billion since 2010 into startups addressing the US K-12 edtech market. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire.

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High School High School Quizzes Teachers 107

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

In high school, wrote one student on an anonymous survey I give at the start of the semester, I stayed far away from the tool because it was emphasized to me as a way of cheating rather than a study tool. Key Goal Key Question Key Prompts Brainstorming What do I want to write about?

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Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

Edsurge

JUNE 20, 2017

I did not know how to use headers, footers or page number in Microsoft Word, so I got five points off every essay for an entire semester. For classrooms that expect students to collaborate online and write long essays, lacking these resources puts them at an academic disadvantage. Need help teaching students tech basics?

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Essay Education Students Internet 167

Teach Hub

DECEMBER 26, 2024

As an educator , you have the unique opportunity to guide your students through crafting a compelling college essay that truly resonates with the reader. The Importance of College Essays College essays are your students’ chance to stand out above their peers. So, where do you start?

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Essay Beliefs Feedback Students 59

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider. In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. What is the cost?

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2021

No matter what grade level they taught in middle or high school, teachers had students who struggled to use a digital learning platform or to type without painstaking hunt-and-pecking at the keyboard. “It It actually was such a frequent comment that I started asking the question if teachers didn’t bring it up,” Picou says. “We

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Essay Writing Attention Feedback 213

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

During virtual learning from 2020 to 2021, that was condensed to 60 minutes and we spent much of our time focused on reading texts, answering text dependent questions and writing essays. Throughout the year, John went from barely writing a sentence to crafting five-paragraph essays with the support of that tool.

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Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 172

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 3, 2023

Wall Street Journal sent a young-looking journalist back to high school to test out the effectiveness of the web’s newest homework helper, ChatGPT. It will write entire essays for students, take notes on literature, and compare-contrast chosen pieces in seconds.

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Essay Testing Writing Curriculum 151

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2024

In the midst of his presentation, he posed a question to the group that deeply resonated with me: Are you comfortable leading a school where kids love themselves but fail academically? Yet, the question lingered, even after I left the retreat. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., And this isn’t a new conversation.

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Beliefs Essay Schools Students 196

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation. As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 201

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Schools can also choose between different dates and formats for different tests. These changes come on the heels of the College Board’s decision last month to move away from SAT subject tests and optional essay tests, which it also produces. So then the question became how to pull that off.

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Exams Testing Multiple Choice Questions Internet 218

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

While multiple choice, short answer, and essays are still proven methods, there are many alternatives teachers can use for their particular student group. Assessment of student work is a crucial aspect of learning. It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 159

Faculty Focus

JUNE 13, 2024

Nothing has informed my teaching practice as much as serving as a writing tutor for high school and college students. It’s a typical weekday afternoon and I’m sitting down with one of my students to begin brainstorming ideas for her essay. On to the second essay option. Believe me, I’m guilty too. Yes, that’s it.

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Assignments Essay Writing Questions 119

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

What a good question. As much as it was my job to teach students to write, I also felt the grading system disadvantaged those students who came in with subpar high school educations and less writing experience. I wanted to deemphasize grading entirely, but in retrospect the flaws were glaring.

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Grades Evaluation Assignments Instructors 81

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. Only about half reported doing something interesting in school everyday.

Education 300

Education Testing Feedback English 300

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. Check out the free sample essays from PapersOwl , where you’ll find a wide range of ideas from which you can choose the most fascinating one for yourself. This will help to keep you motivated throughout the drafting phase.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 159

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

I have spoken with educators and students all over the world, from middle school teachers in Uruguay, to high school teachers in Australia to graduate professors at Columbia University, and they all are witnessing the same trend: Students are turning off their videos and microphones. They are disconnecting and disengaging.

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Motivation Grades Students Essay 218

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2019

Their goal is answering the age-old question: What’s a college degree really worth? We want to help answer this question, ‘Is college worth it?” —Sue But, we still don’t know enough about the benefits that education beyond high school brings,” said Desmond-Hellmann, during a conference call with reporters. “We

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Essay Evaluation Questions Art 160

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. Once teachers choose a lesson, the program provides a six-step process to help students analyze the readings and produce a cohesive essay.

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Writing Essay Teaching Quizzes 131