eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2015

Shawn McCusker has been teaching high school social studies for nearly two decades. For years, he would have his students demonstrate their understanding of the great industrial philosophers by writing a comparative essay. They empower students through creativity.

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Technology Essay Teachers Social Studies 174

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Recently, EdSurge spoke with Chelsey McClelland, a third-year social studies teacher at Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis who recently completed the ISTE U course Artificial Intelligence Explorations for Educators. I was just worried that my students would use this to write all their essays!

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Teachers Intelligence Essay Social Studies 207

eSchool News

MARCH 10, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 245

eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Thinking Nation , for instance, a nonprofit dedicated to improving social studies education, recently switched from paying educators to grade essays based on a rubric to an AI chatbot. The chatbot is getting trained on the same rubric to instantly give students feedback on their ability to critically evaluate historical text.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

During the class reflection, one girl said, “Going into the seminar, I planned to write one argument for my essay, but after this, I think I’m actually going to argue the opposite.” Currently, I serve as the executive director of Thinking Nation , a nonprofit organization working to shift the paradigm of social studies education.

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History Education Social Studies Essay 198

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Instructors need to show their students how an assignment will help them grow, says Darren Minarik, an associate professor at Radford University focused on special education and social studies education. All of a sudden I was excited to write essays because Sarah was just like, so excited to talk about writing essays,” Martens says.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2025

For example, in a social studies class, one group might create a column dedicated to key figures from the Civil Rights Movement. In an English language arts class, a student might place their first argumentative essay or piece of narrative writing next to a more recent one and reflect on changes in structure, detail, or voice.

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Testing Learning Critical Thinking Essay 195

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2020

For example, a philosophy professor at University of Notre Dame designed an introductory course that draws on “ interactive digital essays ” published on mobile-friendly web pages attached to the online syllabus, reports Inside Higher Ed. For example, from 9 a.m.

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Distance Learning Syllabus Internet Learning 212

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

The letters in ThinkCERCA represent the building blocks of an essay: claim, evidence, reasoning, counter argument, and audience. But ThinkCERCA is more than just a traditional framework; the online program provides a lesson library with texts related to literature, math, science, and social studies.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. 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.

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

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. Some districts purchase the product as a wholesale textbook replacement for their ELA classes.

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Textbooks Essay Writing English 274

Edsurge

MAY 4, 2020

Kind Words, Thanks and Acknowledgement Jill Armstrong, social studies teacher at Greenup County High School in Greenup, Ky.: My students have my address because I've sent them each a piece of mail with my return address on it. Just a ‘thank you’ works wonders for a teacher’s mind.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Essay 158

Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

In June 2017, DoAmaral left Oakland Unified, where she had been teaching AP-level history and social studies subjects for five years. On April 6, she did a livestream session where she answered students’ questions, and pulled up a Google Doc on screen to show them how to write an essay. It was a date I will never forget.

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Testing Exams Teachers History 156

Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2016

In addition, students share their written essay work via Pathbrite , an e-portfolio platform perfectly designed for classrooms through their unique feedback tools. Justin Taylor is a social studies teacher in the Humanities Studies Program at Bulkeley High School in Hartford, Connecticut. Who will be next to join us?

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Teaching Social Studies Essay Exams 146

Edsurge

JULY 6, 2016

High school teacher MJ Linane used to describe his social studies class at Old Rochester Regional School in Mattapoisett, MA as “traditional.” Learn more about the flow of dollars and deals in Chapter 2 of our State of Edtech Report. The report was sponsored by AT&T Aspire.

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High School High School Quizzes Teachers 102

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 17, 2017

It changed our day-to-day writing instruction practices, gave students more power over their own learning, and happily, made writing exercises more real and applicable for other departments like social studies. It also gave us our initial essay scores to compare pre- and post-performance. We decided to give it a try.

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Testing Essay English Writing 84

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Educators across core subjects use lessons such as Build a movement, where students learn how data and algorithms impact something that ‘goes viral’; Outbreak, where students analyze how a virus spreads and can be contained ; and Emoji Essay, where students use abstraction to explore language and communication. “

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STEM Science Essay Learning 133

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Are these freedoms only limited to the area of English Language Arts or Social Studies? Author Study. Leaving the work completely up to the students might give a teacher anxiety, but students can do great work when they are motivated and have freedom of choice, creativity, and expression. What are my options?

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Learning Essay Social Studies Language 112

Teaching with a Mountain View

APRIL 25, 2025

Social Studies Patriot’s Pen is a nationwide youth essay contest organized by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) for students in grades 6-8. Participants write a 300-400 word essay on a patriotic theme chosen annually by the VFW Commander-in-Chief.

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Critical Thinking Essay Participation Math 52

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 22, 2025

In addition to core subjects like Math, Science, English, and Social Studies, online schools often provide: Foreign Languages (Spanish, French, Mandarin, etc.) Some schools provide tech support or a recommended hardware list during enrollment. What subjects or electives are typically offered in the best online schools?

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High School High School Exams Schools 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 21, 2023

While these students — a group we’re calling experienced multilinguals — are probably quite comfortable and fluent with speaking English socially, they may still be unfamiliar with the academic language used in science, social studies, math, and other content areas.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

In a DBQ, students are given an essay prompt and must use the given documents and their own knowledge to support their response. Kelly Grotrian teaches social studies at East Brunswick High School in New Jersey. I still believed in the power of video to engage students, but that perhaps there was a way to tweak my process.

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Learning Feedback Essay Lecturing 279

Teachers Pay Teachers

APRIL 11, 2025

Since moving to Italy in 2011, shes published two books of essays and a novel in Italian, and has translated some of her own writings and those of other authors from Italian into English. 5 Activities About AAPI People Knowing how to teach about Asian Pacific heritage and famous AAPI figures is a great start! (But

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Teaching Social Studies History Writing 93

eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2025

Example prompt: “Give constructive, strengths-based feedback on a 9th grade argumentative essay about climate change, using the NYS ELA rubric.” Implementation ideas Rubric-aligned scoring: “Use this rubric to score a middle school social studies response.

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Ethics Teachers Essay Feedback 220