Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

The Ask a Tech Teacher team came up with fresh rules we think are less threatening and more geared to enabling students to enjoy this important writing style. Start small. Mastering these basics is akin to acquiring the essential building blocks that will enable you to construct a sturdy and aesthetically pleasing literary edifice.

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Essay Writing Skills Interdisciplinary 167

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

I enjoyed the tactile experience of writing down my events, notes to myself, and lesson ideas. Provides a place to write notes, but lesson needs are kept separately in a binder or in separate files on a computer. The level of detail may be limited by a lack of space to write detailed notes. For years, I used a daily planner.

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Essay Assignments Writing Middle School 545

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

With so much publicity, it is reasonable to assume that all students from middle school through post-secondary are aware of its power. Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 333

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I think students are reading and writing more than ever. Is it quality writing? I think students are reading and writing more than ever,” says Jeremy Hyler, an eighth-grade English teacher at Fulton Middle School in Michigan. “Is Is it quality writing? Not all the time. Not all the time.” It’s a process.

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Writing Teaching Essay Middle School 165

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

When was the last time you wrote an essay? Whether text, video or something else entirely, each of these mediums encompasses a form of writing. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. The ubiquity and impact of digital writing can’t be ignored. engagement and passion.

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Writing Teaching Essay Assignments 167

eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2015

The pair joined forces in 2012 after Morris, who teaches sixth grade English and History at Del Mar Middle School in Tiburon, Calif., With Morris focused on middle school and Thomasson on high school, the pair brings different attributes to the planning and flipping table. That’s not the way professionals write.

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Course Outline English Middle School Middle School 279

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

With the time it takes to score and give feedback on student work deterring many writing teachers from assigning lengthier writing tasks, and with the long turnaround time most students wait to receive grades and feedback, there is significant timesaving and learning potential in an AI helping grade student work.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 184

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2023

For example, a high school student exploring topics related to climate change could navigate to an interesting article about the pros and cons of Daylight-Saving Time that leads them to write a persuasive essay arguing for a nationwide Sunshine Protection Act.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 273

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

students to write well goes back decades. Newsweek published its ballyhooed screed Why Johnny Can’t Write in 1975. This past summer, The New York Times chimed in with Why Kids Can’t Write. Who says Americans can’t write?) So West-Smith has tried to give her teachers the write stuff. “A Turnitin , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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Writing Teaching Essay Feedback 135

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2025

They do try, as Holly Distefano has seen in her middle school English language arts classes. When she poses a question to her seventh graders over her school’s learning platform and watches the live responses roll in, there are times when too many are suspiciously similar.

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Assignments English Teachers Essay 198

The Hungry Teacher Blog

MARCH 29, 2025

Every ELA teacher has been here : you spend weeks teaching students how to write an essay, and when you sit down to grade, youre blown away by just how bad the writing is. Additionally, the essays feel choppy and unorganized. And even if you do exclusively teach writing, your class periods never feel long enough.)

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Middle School Middle School Writing Curriculum 52

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

ChatGPT adds to the suite of AI tools that might be encountered in an ELA classroom, along with automated essay scoring, writing evaluation and feedback. We wanted to understand better the relationship between teachers and the AI employed by the automated writing evaluation tool.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 171

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 14, 2025

There will always be reliable and relatable topics that K-5 students want to write about. Encourage deeper thinking and advance writing skills by adding a new layer of creativity and skill-building with this list of unique elementary writing prompts, which can help turn your go-tos into gold! Write their dialogue.

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Writing Grades Elementary School Elementary School 86

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. Zoom fatigue is real.

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Motivation Grades Students Beliefs 218

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Below, we have curated some of their responses to this question, in particular: What is the most meaningful way a student, parent or school administrator could show their appreciation for you—even from afar? Personalized Notes Claire Peterson, teacher at Pat Neff Middle School in San Antonio, Texas: “Words are always good to hear.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 154

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2018

I teach middle school English Language Arts at St. Joseph School in Chester County, Pa. Like most schools, we serve students with a range of abilities. Peer editing here usually consists of working with partners, swapping writing assignments and making suggestions. As a teacher, I share some of their frustrations.

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Culture Feedback Writing Assignments 167

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. High school students, especially, can feel singled out and embarrassed, even when you do something meant to help. And he’s running it all through GoGuardian Teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

By middle school, they work in online groups through forums, wikis, and Google Apps. Start this in 1st or 2nd grade with simple projects and gradually increase the difficulty through middle school. Quick writes on the computer. You rarely see a lesson that doesn’t ask for online this or digital that.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 151

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America. Immediately, I heard some excitable boys in the class shout, “Flip flop!”

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History Education Social Studies Beliefs 194

Cal Matters

MAY 14, 2025

In summary The San Jose Evergreen Community College District offers a course at a local middle school, and plans to offer more in the future. the regular school day at August Boeger Middle School had already ended, but one class is about to start. The college faculty union worries that the students are too young.

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Middle School Middle School Counselling Schools 114

Edsurge

JUNE 25, 2020

This essay is the last of a three-part series exploring the challenges facing educators of students who learn and think differently and elevating how SEL strategies can support educators in reframing and addressing those challenges now and in the long term. In a recent essay, Drs. Wanless and Tia N.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2023

And we were watching old teaching videos from, like, 2005, and they were expecting us to write essays about what we learned, how we can integrate that with our teaching. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there. It was very rough trying to learn about teaching when it's online.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2018

On December 9th, 2017, 300 students and educators came to Grover Middle School in West Windsor to learn more about TED-Ed Clubs. These explorations go much deeper than writing an essay or performing a play. This summit was also designed to give current local clubs a bigger platform.

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Students Participation Essay Culture 166

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Be clear and specific: Write prompts and questions that are clear and straightforward. Write this at a college-level reading level, by a student who has a garden. By following these guidelines, users can enhance the model’s performance and achieve more meaningful interactions, tailored to their unique needs and applications.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 28, 2019

Everyone wants to write a book — right? I’ve tried novel-writing activities with students several times to varied results. The rest have too much trouble balancing the demands inherent to writing a 70,000-word book (or even its shorter cousin, the novella). Teens are no exception. multiple POV. themed collections.

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Essay Writing Achievement Middle School 83

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

So, she may have her students type in Google Docs with their tablets instead of writing by hand, to offer them the instant feedback of the platform’s interactive built-in spelling and grammar checker. But she’ll also have them record their screens and annotate their essays with a stylus. Ramaz School Nominated by: RobotLAB Inc.

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Education Elementary School Elementary School Math 319

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2017

I had high hopes for my students, but the average lexile score at my school was 800, which is equivalent to a late elementary or middle school level. The milestone included three types of essays: informative, argumentative and narrative. I had to face some hard facts.

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Testing Exams Essay Ethics 130

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Be clear and specific: Write prompts and questions that are clear and straightforward. Write this at a college-level reading level, by a student who has a garden. By following these guidelines, users can enhance the model’s performance and achieve more meaningful interactions, tailored to their unique needs and applications.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2016

Why do some students type faster than they write and others slower? Did most students by a certain grade level type faster than they write? In my classes, fourth graders write and type at about the same speed (22-28 wpm) and fifth graders generally type faster than they write. Middle School. Which is faster?

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Beliefs Writing Testing Essay 98

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2017

You've been in school for quite a while now, so, what has your experience been as a student both when you were in K-12 and now in college? Middle school and elementary school were extremely challenging for me. When students would be writing a whole page of text, I would be lucky to get a sentence in. Excruciating.

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Disabilities Lecturing Learning Disabilities Learning 124

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Academic competitions can be exciting and rewarding additions to your school club options. For upper elementary and middle school students, these challenges not only promote academic growth and productive struggle but also social connections. The program emphasizes teamwork, spelling skills, and academic excellence.

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Critical Thinking Participation Essay Math 52

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 4, 2019

Common Sense Media’s award-winning Digital Passport is the gold-standard in teaching digital citizenship to grades 3-5 (or Middle School). This free-to-schools online program mixes videos, games, quizzes, and the challenge of earning badges to teach students the concepts behind digital citizenship : Communication.

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Activities Schools Ethics Writing 80

The Hungry Teacher Blog

APRIL 28, 2025

Generally, AI can present a lot of challenges, but one I know youre facing in your ELA class is with research and writing. From solving math problems to writing essays, students are becoming dependent on ChatGPT for all their information, and that includes research. 3 Writing with Evidence The sources have been gathered.

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Teaching Writing Testing Essay 52

Catlin Tucker

MAY 27, 2025

I was at a middle school, and they were opening a brand new entrepreneurial mindset, school type, high school. We have to think, you know, is an essay the right thing? And so she found that the hardest thing for these students was to just even write a prompt. And so then I was there for a year, I loved it.

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Schools Coaching Fairness Technology 198

Teach Thought

MAY 18, 2025

Students will first read a shared text of any length, from a haiku, photograph, painting, or song to an article, essay, short story, or novel. Here are several scenarios for determining the questions that will guide a Socratic seminar: The facilitator assigns 1-5 questions and students respond to them in writing while/after reading a text.

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Critical Thinking Coaching Discussions Evaluation 52

k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Real School Example One middle school teacher at K12 Schools designed a Grammar Quest for English class. Humorous Recaps: Encourage students to write summary poems, memes, or comic strips about what they learned. Higher test scores and better historical analysis in essays. Teaching probability? The result?

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

And this is what happened all the way through middle school and high school.” chunking : Rather than squeeze multiple steps into an essay-type question, break multi-part questions into separate, individual chunks with their own spaces to respond. I’m going to model for you the kind of language I want you to write.

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