Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

I read Susan Blums Ungrading as a first-year graduate student and was immediately smitten. As a first-year graduate student, I had read Susan Blums Ungrading and was immediately smitten. My Grading Design and Process At this point, I started teaching general education in literature, which had different grading expectations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

Read on… Plan Ahe ad: Set Yourself Up for a Career in Electrical and Computer Engineering Regardless of where you are in your life or at what stage, if you have a dream that you want to achieve, you can start working toward that immediately. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. With median U.S.

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Lecturing Essay Motivation High School 81

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. Integrity is often talked about as a coin that reads cheated on one side and didnt cheat on the other. Affirm personal interests by letting students know you cared enough to read their inventories.

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Teach Hub

JULY 9, 2025

Teaching literature isn’t just about helping students understand what happened in a story. They help your students make sense of what they’re reading, and just as importantly, what they’re going through in their own lives. Why It All Matters Understanding literary themes isn’t just about acing a test or writing an essay.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. Encourage your child to listen to teacher feedback; if they feel something isn’t working, teach them how to share that respectfully. Creative Expression of Learning: Not every child shines through essays or multiple-choice tests—and that’s okay.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

If you could teach a class on anything, what would it be? Do you like it when someone reads a book to you, or do you prefer reading independently? They can even use them as longer argumentative essay topics during an argument writing unit! What chore do you secretly like to do at home? What would you say?

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The Hungry Teacher Blog

MAY 28, 2025

From identifying credible sources to using information inside an essay, its a process that takes a lot of practice. For example, reading articles about the worst place to live and taking notes. This doesnt have to be a full-on essay because you havent talked in-depth about introductions, thesis statements, and so on.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

How do you decide whether to keep reading a book or to stop reading it? 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. Imagine a world where you could read everyones mind, but no one could read yours.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. What we’ve found to be one of the biggest challenges is to help teachers teach writing.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Not only does it make educators revise their approach to teaching academic writing, but some still see it as a threat to students’ academic integrity. More than that: If students often ask ChatGPT to generate essays or make those essays longer , their writing and communication skills will suffer.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

This shift has led to the growing adoption of co-teaching models, where general and special education teachers collaborate to meet the diverse needs of their students. First, let’s explore the benefits of using the station rotation model to enhance co-teaching and create more inclusive classrooms.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

AI-powered tools have entered the educational landscape, and theyve changed the way I teach writing–particularly persuasive writing. This support means they can learn and improve as they write, without waiting for me to read through every draft.

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English Writing Teaching Essay 297

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2024

Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. However, it’s possible to use creative writing ideas to help you come up with a unique essay. However, essays are more objective, as they require facts and evidence to support your claims.

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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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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

I love this approach to teaching writing! 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. Step 2: Put students into small groups and give them 5 minutes to construct a solid thesis statement in response to the essay question. Learning'

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MAY 2, 2024

Is using AI in your essay writing unethical and a potential reason your teacher may debate your work’s authenticity? This is the same concern that has been posed about essay writing services and the people who use them. However, boundaries become murkier when it comes to AI and its role in writing essays.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting the creation of powerful tool suites that can enhance the teaching and learning process, it seems reasonable to identify some ways that teacher assistants can use these tools as well. The nationwide shortage of teachers has caused a similar shortage in the ranks of teacher assistants.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 15, 2024

Exploring diverse writing exercises, experimenting with different perspectives, and seeking inspiration from various sources can cultivate creativity and enhance essay writing skills, with the option to have professionals write me an essay providing valuable insights and further honing one’s craft. Start small.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

You can allow them to write an argumentative essay, 2) prepare and engage in a live debate with a classmate, or 3) record an argumentative speech. Students can read the descriptions to understand why they are receiving a particular score. argumentative essay, live debate, or recorded speech).

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Blended Learning Essay Feedback Writing 521

Ask a Tech Teacher

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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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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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.

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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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eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Individual essays, science fair partner projects, group programming assignments, digital and physical art pieces–every single assignment from now on has a silent partner. ChatGPT assisted in refining the essay topic or thesis statement, but the initial idea was student-generated. There is no perfect solution.

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Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 335

eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. It’s especially true when it comes to writing assignments: With poor writing skills, students can’t deal with essays and other homework the way they need to get a good grade.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 284

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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eSchool News

MAY 7, 2019

In my classroom, I teach students computational thinking through free materials from Ignite My Future in School , a partnership between Tata Consultancy Services and Discovery Education. When they read a new book or prepare to write an essay, their process must begin with finding data. This lesson is also true for students.

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Skills Essay Critical Thinking Learning Styles 280

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These models are flexible and able to transcend any single teaching and learning landscape. I ask them to brainstorm and discuss with colleagues the benefits and challenges of teaching using the whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model. Below are the benefits and challenges of teaching in a whole group lesson.

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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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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

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 have more time and energy to invest in the aspects of teaching that I really love, like lesson design. One day I edited thesis statements and another day I was editing topic sentences.

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Grades Feedback Essay Blended Learning 420

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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eSchool News

MAY 4, 2017

You take a student’s essay, start reading it, and it doesn’t feel right. You go to PlagiarismCheck , Copyscape , or any other resource to check that essay for plagiarism and…ta da! The essay has obvious signs of plagiarism. Teach Paraphrasing. Everything starts with suspicion. You were right.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Part of their concern is that incorporating these new services means they have to throw away the tried-and-true teaching techniques that they’ve mastered and love to use. Improving teaching and learning practices with technology is not about replacing traditional teaching. It is about taking what works and making it even better.

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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. Our job is to teach them as they come.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

I combine the picture books with Gilder Lehrman essays in my classroom. They are at an early college level, which fits in nicely with my students reading college-level literature. The length is manageable for a classroom setting, and the essays cover a wide variety of topics. That may sound like a lot, but I keep it simple.

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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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