Edsurge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

As the college essay program manager for Write the World, a nonprofit writing organization for teens, I oversee a group of advisers who guide students through the essay writing process. I have seen firsthand the anxiety that students experience when it comes to writing their college essays.

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Essay Writing Beliefs High School 182

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.

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Essay Writing Skills Discussions 155

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Every English teacher has experienced the frustration of introducing a writing skill, like how to write a thesis statement, over and over again without it “sticking.” That said, I can only read so many essays in a year. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Write an essay prompt on the board. Learning'

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Essay Writing English Languages 420

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JUNE 28, 2024

Essay writing is a crucial skill for academic and professional success because it teaches clear, logical, and persuasive communication. In this blog post, we’ll unlock the secrets to successful essay writing and share 10 proven tips to help you level up your writing game. What is Effective Essay Writing?

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Communication 157

eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2021

Renaissance , a global leader in pre-K–12 education technology, today released its much anticipated What Kids Are Reading report for 2021. As the largest study of its kind, What Kids Are Reading provides actionable insights and helpful tools to help educators guide their students toward “just-right” reading recommendations.

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Reading Study Essay English 246

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. I identify target skills and assess these critical skills over the course of the grading period.

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Grades Essay Exams English 419

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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Teaching Writing Essay Discussions 394

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. 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. It’s intimidating.

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Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

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. Students benefit from the freedom to read at their own pace, ensuring they fully comprehend the material before moving on.

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Teachers Art Feedback Writing 479

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 18, 2023

Many students dread IB essays. Read how to draft an IB extended essay below Writing Strategies for an Extended Essay in the International Baccalaureate Program IB is a rigorous two-year project for personal and academic development. One of them is the extended essay. Hence, you need all the help you can get.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Evaluation 148

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

Students honed their research skills, organized their information, watched flipped videos on how to complete various aspects of the paper, like citing properly, and they received detailed feedback from me the entire way through! We spent a significant amount of class time working on these papers.

Grades 420

Grades Feedback Essay Blended Learning 420

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

AP classes are focused on preparing students for the rigor of college coursework, so AP teachers need to look beyond the test to help students gain the skills and knowledge they’ll need in college and in their careers. Essay Rubrics: Early in the semester, provide students with the rubric for the essay sections of the test.

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Exams Essay Testing History 317

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What: Teaching techniques designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varied needs, skills, abilities, and language proficiencies. Differentiating the content, or how students access knowledge, understanding, and skills. writing an essay, completing a multimedia project, tackling a performance task).

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 544

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Seventy percent of high school juniors and seniors believe AI-powered tools, including ChatGPT, can be a resource in brainstorming ideas for their college essays or short answer responses. AI-powered tools can help students brainstorm ideas for a college essay. One state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all.

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Essay Exams Testing Reading 287

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.

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English Writing Teaching Essay 300

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Yet, there were 22 students sitting in my classroom finishing their independent reading activity. One boy raised his hand—the same boy who always does after silent sustained reading—to ask, “Ms. Focus on care, not skills. I had to use the bathroom. The timer went off. Twenty-two heads snapped up to attention.

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Skills Teaching Essay Students 218

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. After assigning a “standard” written essay based on materials that we were reading in class, I would have students read their essays at the front of the class while I recorded them. Focus on growth, not scores.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 204

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

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Databases are essential for helping middle and high school students understand the value of research, appreciate the importance of validating sources, and make connections between different topics — all of which are necessary for building information literacy skills. They can also be confident that the materials are trustworthy.

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Peer Review Essay Skills Critical Thinking 278

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2016

Sight words are those words that a child should memorize in order to help them learn how to read and write. On their mission to assist writers in their skill development, Purdue University offers their Online Writing Lab (OWL) as a free resource for users around the world. Sight Words. The Purdue Online Writing Lab. Boomessays.

Essay 278

Essay Writing English Languages 278

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2020

With school libraries beginning to function as digital media centers, these tools enable students to explore new modes of thought and include: Planning, drafting and executing podcasts or audio essays. Access to audiobooks and online tutorials. Online or in-person tutorials on how to use video-, audio- or photo-editing software.

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Schools Essay Instructors Critical Thinking 358

eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

1) ThinkCERCA : Since the onset of the Common Core State Standards, much of the focus in reading has shifted to informational texts. Close reading has become essential for all assignments, and many teachers have used claim-based essays based on each reading as formative assessments. Next page: 2 more Tech Essentials).

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Essay Education Blended Learning English 215

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2017

As with any skill, the key to better writing is more practice. But that creates a dilemma for the teachers tasked with helping students improve their writing skills: How can they build more opportunities into the curriculum for students to practice writing, while still giving students both timely and meaningful feedback?

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Writing Technology Essay Feedback 191

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2023

We couldn’t let too much of this special season pass without bringing you an EdSurge summer reading list. It’s the next step,” says Shelly Ruff, a former fifth grade teacher who found out her teenage son has used ChatGPT to write his essays. What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

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Reading Essay Lecturing Writing 146

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I specifically love the contest as it’s a chance for students to tap into their individual interests and emphasize their skills and talents in their submission. I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. The length is manageable for a classroom setting, and the essays cover a wide variety of topics.

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Students History Essay High School 339

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. Demonstrating learning needs to move from testing memorization to showcasing transferable skills.

Metacognitive Skills 339

Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 22, 2015

Students are expected to collaborate and share online as young as kindergarten when they read digital books or draw pictures using iPad apps. This way, students don’t get used to a tool, rather learn to find the important skills no matter the program they’re using. mouse skills. Multimedia projects. highlighting.

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Skills Students Plagiarism Knowledge 155

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.

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Essay Writing Plagiarism Discussions 215

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. “But

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Essay Social Studies Education Critical Thinking 199

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

How can I best support students with very poor writing skills when the class is not one specifically focused on writing? We professors sometimes misjudge the skill level students will start from on the first day of class on a variety of fronts. You can pose a question for a future column here. The engine of learning is labor."

Writing 155

Writing Skills Teaching Essay 155

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Student agency empowers learners to play a more active role in their own education by taking charge of the learning process under the guidance of skilled educators. Students learn independence and other skills needed for success. These are skills that will serve students well once they graduate.

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Students Motivation Achievement Assignments 348

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Standardized reading tests In recent years, the landscape of reading instruction has undergone a dramatic transformation. Teachers now find themselves navigating a shift away from the immersive experience of novels towards a regimen of skill-and-drill exercises.

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Testing Critical Thinking Evaluation Essay 278

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2017

During the academic writing assessment, secondary school students composed timed, on-demand essays interpreting themes from fiction and nonfiction texts. It was designed for the Pathway Project to measure analytical literacy skills. The two-year study appears in the January issue of the Journal of Educational Psychology.

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Writing Exams Essay Students 210

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Providing comprehensive and skill-aligned feedback on student essays is time-consuming, and educators often wish they could offer more support during a student’s writing process. Writable’ s AI-suggested comments, also available in Spanish, provide ongoing, rubric-aligned commentary for students through the drafting process.

Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Develop learner-centered assessments aligned with learner-centered systems The skills that make us uniquely human are the skills that a learner-centered framework champions. They are also the skills that will be very difficult, if not impossible, for technology to replicate reliably.

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Education Testing Feedback English 303

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. Now I realize it is not only about being there for them, but about passing on the skills I have gained to live with my neurodivergence.

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Education Essay Culture Math 83

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. Teaching Basic Technological Skills. Named for our school, David C.

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Essay Students History Grades 240