eSchool News

MAY 23, 2025

This is where AI-powered educational tools step in, not as a replacement for the teacher, but as a skilled accompanist, tuning into each learners individual tempo and helping them find their own melody. AI doesnt replace that teacher; it augments their ability to reach each student more effectively. Still, AI is not a silver bullet.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2019

Base groupings on information : Use pre-tests, formatives assessments, learning styles, and even student interest surveys to divvy up the students. Teachers should create groups for a specific learning goal or project and then reassess for the next lesson. This helps students avoid labels and learn to work with all of their peers.

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Collaborative Learning Teachers Exams Teaching Methods 273

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Who decided that grading and assessment should be the exclusive responsibility of teachers? Self-assessing Practice and Review Too often, when teachers assign review and practice in class or for homework, the responsibility for checking the accuracy of that work falls on the teacher.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

Today’s tip: How to Evaluate Apps. Here are thirteen tips to evaluate the apps you’ll find useful in your classroom: free or small fee. stand the test of time. offer compelling content (this is subjective: ‘Compelling’ varies teacher-to-teacher and student-to-student). stand the test of time.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher. 00:00:36 Speaker 1 Or the science teacher or the librarian.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Not long ago, the leadership team of a school district I was working with asked me: “If you were going to hire a new teacher, what would you ask in the interview?” They were concerned that hiring teachers with the right skills now can save a district a lot of money in staff development later.

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Questions Teachers Knowledge Learning Styles 272

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Key points: Creating a culture where all students see themselves as capable math thinkers starts with leaders Key questions that unleash powerful PLCs Ethical PD: Doing right by the teachers who do right by the world For more news on teachers PD, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub One of my first vivid memories of math is of timed tests.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2016

Here’s what admins — and teachers — need to know for job interviews and beyond. Not long ago, the leadership team of a school district I was working with asked me: “If you were going to hire a new teacher, what would you ask in the interview?” We typically hire teachers for what they already know, subject knowledge.

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Questions Teachers Internet Knowledge 279

eSchool News

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Be informed before testing: Districts must thoroughly understand the tool, including its privacy practices, security measures, and contract terms, before making a commitment. Start with staff: Testing AI tools with staff, rather than students, helps avoid premature exposure of student data.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In some cases, early, effective literacy instruction can shrink the gap between typical reading and dyslexia so much that it doesn’t appear on diagnostic tests. And his teachers simply weren’t equipped with the right tools–approaches based on the science of reading–to help him. More than 40 million adults in the U.S.

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Evaluation Learning Disabilities Disabilities Reading 350

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Every test score, attendance log, learning app, or digital assignment generates data. Teachers use data dashboards to track student progress. Why it matters for K-12 teachers As educators, we regularly interact with data, benchmark scores, reading levels, engagement analytics from edtech tools, and state test results.

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Ethics Education Culture Social Studies 278

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Key points: Gen AI is a game changer for all industries due to its ability to produce original outputs Don’t miss out–stay up to date on AI in Education Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Video production : AI can produce videos, making multiple means of representation possible for a teacher to provide learners.

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Metacognitive Skills Ethics Critical Thinking Evaluation 339

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 22, 2020

Maybe because I’m a technology teacher, I can usually sort through this list pretty quickly. The first evaluates the big picture. I took hours (and hours) to setup it up, and then more hours teaching teachers to use it, only to find they still just didn’t get it and wouldn’t use it. . It will stand the test of time.

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Evaluation Assignments Testing Critical Thinking 158

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

29 states require dyslexia training for teachers; 14 states for teachers-to-be. 29 states require dyslexia training for teachers; 14 states for teachers-to-be. These brief screeners use a sample of disconnected test items that are just as likely to miss a student’s problem areas as to find them.

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Disabilities Learning Disabilities Evaluation Language 282

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

From the early days of kindergarten, teachers have used crafts as a way to foster students’ curiosity, creativity, and critical thinking skills. We want our students to embrace the process of designing, building, testing, and refining their projects. It can even boost student communication and collaboration when they work in groups.

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Evaluation Critical Thinking Learning Knowledge 260

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2024

Recommended Resources ISTE’s Advancing Edtech Evaluation and Selection page includes a set of user-friendly resources designed to help teachers and education leaders select the best edtech on the market. The Research Behind Teacher Ready ISTE takes research and development seriously. Explore the tool and download the guide.

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Evaluation Testing Feedback Achievement 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

When we reflect on how the pandemic disrupted education, we’ll think about the resiliency of our teachers, who were challenged like never before to connect with students in new ways to keep learning going in the face of nationwide school closures. In many ways, teachers are already Learning Engineers.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

For parents and teachers, addressing these challenges requires a multi-faceted approach that combines thorough and adequate testing, open communication, and proactivity. For example, clinicians at a Colorado-based SBHC incorporate more technology, like objective ADHD testing, to design effective accommodation plans.

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Education Schools Testing Evaluation 280

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

In January 2023, about one month after the release of ChatGPT, there were already stories about colleges switching to “pen-and-paper” tests to battle the AI bots. If a math teacher gives you a set of problems to solve, why not leverage Khanmigo to help you solve them? What is our role as a teacher?

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

In educational settings, data can be derived from a range of sources–student assessments, attendance records, teacher evaluations, behavioral data, etc. For instance, consider a scenario where a district uses standardized test scores to evaluate teacher performance.

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Education Fairness Evaluation Ethics 281

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2024

Before I adopted phenomena-based instruction, most of the questions students asked were some variation on, “Is this going to be on the test?” They were focused on whether they would have to memorize this fact or that process to pass a test. I think most teachers have heard students asking again and again, “Why do I need to learn this?”

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Science STEM Testing Questions 328

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

Today, Beanstack announces the addition of Book Talks with Benny, an AI-powered teachers assistant that promotes reading integrity without the need for quizzes or grading. This information allows educators to evaluate the conversation and make the final decision about how best to ensure reading accountability.

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Quizzes Ethics History Intelligence 279

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

Research shows that teachers are impacted by a “wage penalty” of about 20 percent —meaning compared to someone with a similar degree, teachers earn only eighty cents on the dollar. This can lead to difficulties with retention, but can also affect the quality of teachers in public schools. What Makes a Good Teacher?

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Teachers Evaluation Achievement Culture 178

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. according to the most recent count by the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ).

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 196

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2023

The proliferation of AI tools has outpaced efforts to understand how AI’s presence might change teaching practices or the role of the teacher. 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. argument coherence) for teachers.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Essay 173

Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

Creativity helps develop a deeper sense of learning, yet we keep our “creative” units until after state testing is over. Recently, I met with two education leaders to discuss how to improve teacher and student engagement through creativity. Teachers are overwhelmed, now more than ever. Why does creativity matter?

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Student Engagement Teachers Students Beliefs 206

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

One faculty member spoke up and asked why we are not teaching student teachers to use a strong prompt for lesson plan development and encouraging them to use a generative AI tool to create lesson plans. Several of the faculty pushed back, saying it is essential for student teachers to write those lesson plans.

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Evaluation Quizzes Ethics Knowledge 286

Teach Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2024

If you’ve been a teacher for a while, you already know how much standardized tests shape everything from what you teach to how you’re evaluated. These tests seem to influence how you prepare lesson plans, so you may feel pressured to “teach to the test” rather than foster a love of learning.

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Testing Critical Thinking Evaluation Fairness 105

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

That vision became AEF Schools , a place designed for students who needed something differenta structured, supportive environment where learning goes beyond textbooks and tests. The Preparatory Programs support students who thrive in a structured setting without the added stress of homework or standardized testing.

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Skills Schools Learning Students 144

Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder The study, “ Do Teachers Perceive Absent Students Differently? Why does that matter? If true, this would carry some implications.

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Teachers Students Study Distance Learning 203

Edsurge

JUNE 2, 2023

“Those lesson plans are actually what stood out to my teachers,” adds Dawson, “They felt like the plans provided the support they needed to implement AR in the classroom without a lot of training.” “The Spierenburg also enjoys seeing this learner-centered approach, where teachers facilitate learning and nudge students forward.

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Teachers Mobile Devices Students Language 201

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2022

With teacher morale seemingly at an all-time low, school districts are looking for ways to keep educators from burning out and quitting. While this approach is used by districts at times to cut costs , a common motivation now is teacher recruitment and retention as non-stop pandemic stress has staff leaving in pursuit of work-life balance.

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Teachers Schools English Math 196

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

For the summer program, I created an experiment in which students got to test out different types of road salts. In my experience, even reluctant students become interested in setting up a science experiment when they have some level of agency over what they will be testing. Both are readily available on Amazon. Give students agency.

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STEM Learning Science Students 302

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2024

Teachers and guidance counselors can play a pivotal role in helping students showcase their academic potential regardless of what’s offered in a particular school. Universities, but especially elite ones, evaluate students based on how well they challenged themselves academically in their school and compared to their peers.

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Exams Motivation High School High School 304

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Edtech evaluation is currently the Wild West. As long as the data aligns with the edtech company’s goals, third-party evaluations can be the strongest selling point for solution providers. These are the individuals who would say – these are good data points, but what proof do we have that teachers liked it?

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