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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

Instead of written exams, ask students to turn in a summary of a lesson as an exit ticket before they leave. Choose high-interest books and materials for reading activities, and encourage students to choose how they’d like to finish final projects.

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How to help ESL students improve writing skills

eSchool News

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. ESL students need stellar writing skills to pass exams and language tests or enter the university. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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How AI can transform lesson planning and assessment

eSchool News

All it asks for is the topic, reading level, and any additional criteria teachers might have for their class, like an enhanced focus on accessibility or detailed deep dives into ethical implications. MagicSchool.ai, on the other hand, is a more expansive tool, and lesson planning is just one of the features it offers teachers.

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Can Kids Grow Up If They're Constantly Tracked and Monitored?

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And that can make it hard for students to get used to solving their own problems and learning from the small failures that are meant to happen in school, says Devorah Heitner, an author who advises schools on social media issues. Or read a partial transcript, edited for clarity, below. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

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As States Make It Easier to Become a Teacher, Are They Reducing Barriers or Lowering the Bar?

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Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. We don’t need a standardized exam for that.

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The Pandemic Will Leave More Students Unprepared For College. Developmental Education Must Help.

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Reforming Developmental Education According to the Community College Research Center, developmental education is essentially a “reteach” of high school and junior high school reading, writing, and math. Failure to do so will only compound the disparities present, particularly with our low-income communities.

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Hosting Class 'Afterparties' on Zoom -- and Other New Ways to Reach Students

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Listen to the conversation using the player on this page, or read a partial transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. At the after party I help them with some of the reading. I condense some of the reading and do it orally. So there should be failure in all of our classes. And then I get feedback and I try again.

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