Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

Instead of spending hours grading assignments designed to help students develop these skills, I limit my energy to providing feedback in class as they work and grading the actual assessments–exam, essay, performance task. For example, a student may return to a formal essay or lab report to improve it after I’ve formally assessed it.

Grades 419

Grades Essay Exams English 419

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Example: Two Teacher-Led Stations – One Differentiated, One Guided Reading and Discussion Reading Standard: CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RL.3.2 Teacher 1: Differentiated Instruction Station At this station, students are grouped by their reading comprehension levels.

Teaching 394

Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 394

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

The critical question is, “ What is the right type of co-learning ?” Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. The essay was primarily or entirely structured and written by ChatGPT.

Essay 337

Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Writing an essay paper like a pro needs specific critical skills. Keep reading to enhance your ability to curate a unique essay paper. We are talking about essay writing, which you find a daunting task. Writing an essay is mostly difficult for students as they need to rely on their research and writing abilities.

Essay 155

Essay Writing Skills Discussions 155

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

I also added static comments with questions, suggestions, and links to additional resources that might be useful. During that window of time, I was able to give every student written feedback on the section of his/her essay they were currently working on. I was able to support students throughout the entire process.

Grades 420

Grades Feedback Essay Blended Learning 420

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This includes teaching test-taking strategies including: Active Reading: When I was a classroom teacher, I collaborated with the English department to teach students to become active readers, which makes it easier for them to pick out the information they really need from AP test passages and questions alike.

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Exams Essay Testing History 317

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.

Writing 328

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

It begs the question, What is the value of racing through material if students don’t understand or retain it? Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 479

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Below is an image of teacher responses to the following questions: What are the benefits and challenges of the whole group, teacher-led model from your perspective? writing an essay, completing a multimedia project, tackling a performance task). Below are the benefits and challenges of teaching in a whole group lesson.

Blended Learning 544

Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

percent), and writing papers or essays (44.1 Teachers, already overburdened with bloated class sizes and punishing schedules, aren’t always around after school hours to answer their students’ questions. The most common stressors include homework (55.1 percent), studying for tests (48.8 Alarmingly, 72.6

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Essay Ethics Schools Students 286

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

When I was young, we were tracked, starting in first grade, into “high” or “low” reading groups, gifted, etc. As more and more students were educated with their peers, we started to realize that having all students read the same book and take the same test doesn’t work. To do this, we have to change the way we “do” school.

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Disabilities Universal Design Essay Beliefs 280

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

This support means they can learn and improve as they write, without waiting for me to read through every draft. His essay, Money Cant Buy Happiness, included valuable reflections on emotional fulfillment and references to The Great Gatsby, yet his ideas were scattered and the language needed refinement.

English 300

English Writing Teaching Essay 300

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

In this article, I’ll focus on preparation for the SAT essay portion. General preparation hints include: practice good writing with every school essay students write. read a lot — and let that inform your writing. Khan Academy SAT Reading and Writing Practice. take practice tests. Turnitin Revision Assistant.

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Essay Mobile Devices Exams Writing 99

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

AI can help students write stronger essays, solve tricky math problems, and even manage their stress levels, all while giving TAs more time to focus on what matters most–building meaningful connections with students. Diffit provides leveled resources as well. Nearly all generative AI tools offer a summary function.

Teaching Assistants 301

Teaching Assistants Teaching Quizzes Intelligence 301

Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2023

It’s time for handwritten essays in class without devices. In these same conversations, I hear teachers eager to revert back to timed writing by hand, the five-paragraph essay, and other formulaic approaches to writing. They scored ChatGPT’s work using the same College Board rubric their essays were evaluated against.

Essay 215

Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 215

Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

Compared with the past, the majority of young adults don’t read for pleasure. In 1980, 60 percent of 12th graders said they read a book, newspaper or magazine every day that wasn’t assigned for school, one study found. Reading has the potential to open doors, expand horizons, and provide escape. It’s not that they can’t.

Reading 167

Reading Essay Assignments Fairness 167

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. As Gen Z prefers learning via video platforms like YouTube over reading, it’s clear that textbook publishers need to innovate and evolve in order to help students and teachers.

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Teachers Textbooks Multiple Choice Questions Essay 278

eSchool News

OCTOBER 3, 2017

How do you know when a student has turned in a good essay? It can be tempting to answer this question as former Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart famously said in describing obscenity: I know it when I see it. In other words, she said, is the essay effective in communicating its ideas? It’s simply, does it work ?”

Writing 198

Writing Essay Feedback Evaluation 198

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. Also making the list was an essay by a teacher launched into a leadership position at age 26 reflecting on a lack of support during the shift.

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Exams Essay Reading STEM 144

Edsurge

MARCH 26, 2024

When longtime educator Zachary Cote first read about the release of ChatGPT about 15 months ago, he says his first instinct was to be “concerned” about its impact in the classroom, worried that students might simply ask the AI tool to do work for them. It’s really contingent on hours of the day and human buy-in,” he says.

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 199

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Step 2: Collect the feedback in an easy-to-read format. Completing a reading journal or log. When Google Form responses get collected in a Google Sheet, they can be challenging to read if the answers are long (essays, open-ended questions, etc.). I just create the form and then enter the information. Peer feedback.

Feedback 216

Feedback Technology Quizzes Essay 216

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. Constitution?

Assignments 199

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Rather than just taking notes, students can respond to surveys and questions using Google Forms or Formative, tools that allow teachers to pose questions or provide activities for students to respond to on their devices throughout the lecture. Even so, there is much room for improvement when it comes to the student experience.

Essay 167

Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Try asking a Gen AI chatbot such as ChatGPT to customize text to a specific reading level. Students often demonstrate their learning through written explanations in the forms of short answer questions and essays. Gen AI is flipping this on its head.

Metacognitive Skills 339

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

eSchool News

JULY 28, 2017

They then create a persuasive video essay as well as a watercolor painting showing why their chosen nominee best displays the qualities of peace. I also read Peace Is an Offering by Annette Lebox. Named for our school, David C. This project comes after students have studied Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.,

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Essay Students History Grades 240

Edsurge

MAY 27, 2025

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. 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.

Education 83

Education Essay Culture Math 83

Edsurge

MAY 3, 2024

Texas found itself in need of a way to score exponentially more written responses on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR, after a new law mandated that at least 25 percent of questions be open-ended — rather than multiple choice — starting in the 2022-23 school year. Using technology to score essays is nothing new.

Fairness 189

Fairness Testing Grades Essay 189

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2023

A perennial question as technology improves is the extent to which it will change—or replace— the work traditionally done by humans. We recently completed an evaluation of an AI-equipped platform through which middle school students could draft, submit and revise argumentative essays in response to pre-curated writing prompts.

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Grades Essay Teachers Feedback 175

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

That kind of assignment feels more purposeful than completing a worksheet or answering questions from a textbook, she says. In some cases college instructors assign multiple readings about the same idea, which can feel redundant to students. I've tried to help faculty think about, ‘What are you gonna have students do with this?

Instructors 191

Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 191

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

On the other extreme is its complete acceptance; basically, you enter the essay prompt into ChatGPT and ask it to write the paper for you. This is formally known as a cognitive apprenticeship : one needs to deliberately bring the thinking to the surface, to make it visible, whether it’s in reading, writing, problem solving.

Teachers 246

Teachers Writing Critical Thinking Feedback 246

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2022

But he was reading and writing at a kindergarten level, according to diagnostic tests. John, whose name has been changed, is dyslexic and had been struggling with reading and writing for years. So many students are unable to read and write proficiently. He wasn’t alone. John’s sharp intellect was apparent. I was ecstatic.

Accessibility 164

Accessibility Essay Disabilities Learning Disabilities 164

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT, which can generate original text that seems like it was written by a human, educators have expressed concern about students using the tool to write their essays for them. So naturally, companies are rushing to create tools that they say can help detect when text is written by a bot. But will these tools work?

Essay 187

Essay Writing Reading Questions 187

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 12, 2023

No one questions whether literature influences the formation of student personalities. Fiction, essays, science. Essays convey the author’s thoughts and analysis of a particular topic. An essay on The Distance Between Us can be a great way for students to show how they can analyze characters and their actions.

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Essay Ethics Critical Thinking Intelligence 29

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?

Essay 59

Essay Beliefs Feedback Students 59

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

As an educator reading headline after headline about AI in education, it’s hard to not get lost in an existential tailspin to the tune of Billie Eilish’s “What was I made for?” (if Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. if AI can do all of this.) Integrating generative AI into education is complex. What is the cost?

Teachers 218

Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

eSpark, an online supplemental curriculum provider for math, reading, and writing, is bringing AI-powered phonics practice to foundational reading instruction this school year. This update strengthens eSpark’s already strong alignment with the science of reading.

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Counselling Essay Reading Feedback 130

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Pearson’s Behrens thinks automated essay grading is one area that machine learning is starting to make progress. “In In that space, we are mapping the features of essays against different labels of those essays,” he said. I have to read the book and determine what level is. It’s the holy grail.” said Grant.

Essay 167

Essay Education Learning Ethics 167