Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

In a recent book exploring the influence of generative AI on teacher education, two researchers, Punya Mishra and Marie K. When I learned to do citations as a high school student, our teacher required that we physically make the citations using index cards, even while it was possible to have a citation generator churn them out.

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Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

public education system has evolved throughout its history, school libraries have also developed with a consistent central goal: to give students the best opportunity to succeed academically. Moreover, school library faculty must partner with administrators and teachers to ensure students adopt effective critical thinking and research skills.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

Pierre, my high school English teacher who embodied social-emotional mastery before there was such a thing. I often think about how our students’ futures would be different if more teachers were able to have such a connection with individual students, like I had with Ms. For me it was Ms. SEL doesn’t just live at school.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Josh Davis spent 14 years teaching high school special education and middle school history, so he’s well aware of a few classroom constants. Over and over, he saw teachers resisting technology adoption because they didn’t want to look foolish trying something new in front of students. Recommendations from @jodavisITC.

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Teachers Students Special Education History 200

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Within this rapidly changing landscape, teachers have taken on a role much different from how we have historically been viewed. We should not simply view it as a tool for teachers to use, but as a necessity to prepare students for the complexities of the 21st century. The History of Design Thinking. References Dam, R.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 307

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

As students cram, her team of four has been scrambling to meet the demand on Fiveable , where she and other teachers broadcast live test-prep sessions. One session on AP European History alone got 845 viewers. “I Each session is one-hour long, featuring a teacher narrating and screensharing test-prep materials.

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Testing Exams Teachers History 156

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters.

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Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s just more complex and time consuming, he says, to gauge how much a student has learned about, say, how to weigh two competing views of a historical event in an essay assignment. But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback.

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 205

Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2019

Carlin was explaining how to make history relevant to all students, whether it's the history of hip-hop music, the evolution of the coffee industry or a person you pass on the street. What stayed with me that day: everything and everyone has a history—but history doesn't matter to students if it's not relevant to their own lives.

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History Teachers Students Interdisciplinary 162

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

When asked what their teachers could do to help motivate them, students identified a number of strategies related to agency. To give students a choice in content, teachers can present broad topics to everyone but allow students to focus on a particular aspect of the topic. A partner like VHS Learning can help.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

In my work as a digital learning specialist, I’m charged with helping teachers try new classroom strategies and learn to use the technology tools that make those strategies possible. Many teachers are exceptional public speakers and storytellers and should not be deterred from using their skills in their classrooms.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

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. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 198

eSchool News

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching metacognition equips ELLs with the tools needed to navigate not only language acquisition but also the demands of various subject areas, from math and science to history and literature (Flavell, 1979; Schraw & Moshman, 1995). Teacher : Thats a great strategy! and Che Guevara. and Che Guevara.

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Essay Ethics Feedback Language 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

How two teachers overcome the challenges of flipping their classrooms and co-planning lessons across states. Who says you can only use the flipped teaching method in your own class or with other teachers in your school or district? said neither teacher knew much about making videos back in 2012. Starting from scratch.

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English Course Outline Middle School Middle School 277

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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High School High School Interdisciplinary Education 211

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A total of $20,000 in grant donations and $75,000 in subscriptions to the Rosetta Stone® English for Education language learning program were awarded to teachers of English learners (EL). Machado was nominated by the Bilingual Department Chairperson Brian Donovan who submitted an essay describing how Machado helps his students.

Essay 162

Essay English Language Languages 162

Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2018

Here’s a slightly Orwellian way to check whether your students may have plagiarized part of their essays: the Chrome extension Draftback , which plays back the revision history of any Google doc you can edit—down to the keystroke. Sortd is a tool for people who like to organize things into lists, said science teacher JR Ginex-Orinion.

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Essay Plagiarism Coaching Learning Disabilities 167

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

What is the first sign that youre going to like or dislike a teacher? Students can keep a long-term journal to respond all year long, or they can use journal prompts as a springboard into a class essay or assignment. Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time? What about 3 hours?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Last year, an English teacher at my school came to me with an all-too-common concern about an essay a student named Kyle had just turned in. The teacher’s 10th grade class had just finished op-ed essays on a topic of their choice, and Kyle had chosen to examine the economic impact of illegal immigration on the U.S.

Essay 168

Essay Beliefs Language Languages 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

They are similar to essays but usually more detailed and longer. Regardless of the course (science, history, or literature), every student has to prepare a research document at some point or the other. You can collect information from various citing sources, including journals, books, articles, and free essays online resources.

Writing 158

Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 158

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 5, 2023

It helps students recognize important lesson goals and teachers gauge understanding. 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.

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Quizzes Peer Review Failure Essay 158

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

As the media specialist, I created the annual “Barrow Peace Prize” project in collaboration with the 2 nd grade classroom teachers and art teacher, where students from across all the second-grade sections pick six nominees from civil rights history and decide what attributes the winner must embody.

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Essay Learning Styles Students Elementary School 174

Edsurge

APRIL 11, 2018

Admissions officers pour through a lot of materials, such as resumes and essays, to make the final call on whether or not to accept an applicant. But before an application ends up on an admissions officer’s desk, a student has to decide if he or she even wants to apply to that school.

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Essay Students Intelligence History 159

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' I came to my geometry teacher at lunch for help and he told me that I was just wasting his time.

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Math Beliefs Students Failure 214

Edsurge

DECEMBER 16, 2016

They have to frame their thoughts as a response to some of the finest college application essay prompts, inspired by the very same ones that high school seniors are feverishly working on now! For the first time in human history, our challenge is having too much access to information.

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Critical Thinking Internet Essay History 158

eSchool News

MAY 1, 2024

TeachTap uses AI to bring historical figures to life as teachers, allowing students to learn, for example, about the Civil War with Abraham Lincoln, the civil rights movement through the lens of Martin Luther King Jr, or the laws of motion from Sir Isaac Newton. History, World History, European History, U.S.

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Exams High School High School History 143

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The Reading Lab analyzes students’ speech patterns to provide detailed instruction, practice, and reporting on individual phonemes, giving teachers an unprecedented window into where students are on their early reading journeys. Learn more and get started at [link].

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

In my doctoral work with the Tufts University DevTech Research Group —a research lab focused on how new technologies that engage children in coding, robotics and making can play a positive role in their development and learning—I explore how parents and teachers introduce these technologies to young children.

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Science Education Learning Essay 218

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

I was a certified high school math teacher, but like so many of my peers, I also taught advisory—working with students to develop their social skills and help them explore college and career options. I had no idea what I was doing and I was never paired with a veteran teacher. “Mister, why do we have to do this? Or anything else.”

Teaching 168

Teaching Interdisciplinary Math Essay 168

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Personalized learning is still in its infancy—as are the curricular tools and resources available to support teachers in implementing it. There are plenty of resources with step-by-step guides and blueprints designed to walk teachers through a process to personalize learning. Redesigning the Syllabus Starting With Student Experience.

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Syllabus Learning Course Outline History 159

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It counts when an essay expands from one unclear sentence to three paragraphs of of compelling narrative, even if three paragraphs doesn’t cut it on the rubric. If I don’t show my students how much I value their dedication to bettering themselves, then I’m not the teacher they need. Probably not.

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Testing Essay Writing Motivation 137

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

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Writing Education Essay Ethics 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

He avoids assessing creative writing altogether by assigning his students to write critical essays about their own short stories. Assess the assessment Kevin Allardice is an English teacher at Mercy High School in Burlingame, CA and the author of the novels Any Resemblance to Actual Persons and Family, Genus, Species. Use technology?

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Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

On the day of a crucial match-up between South Korea and Germany, I chose to project the game on the TV in class while they pretended to write essays, knowing I had already lost their attention for the day. When I see calls on Twitter that declare, “If teachers aren’t having conversations about X with their students…” I always wince.

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English Culture Syllabus Writing 201

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested?

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Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Key points: School libraries have evolved to offer students and teachers everything they need See article: Modern students need modern librarians See article: 10 reasons we love school librarians For more news on school libraries, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching page What makes an effective school library? Who is the modern librarian?

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Schools Language Languages Reading 246

Edsurge

JUNE 15, 2022

Using these tools, schools can filter web content; monitor students’ search engine queries and browsing history; view students’ emails, messages and social media content; and/or view their screens in real-time. That function is only enabled during the school day, and prevents teachers from monitoring student activity outside of those hours.

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Schools Counselling Students Internet 162