Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

Beliefs 104

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 104

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Be an Advocate One of my earliest mentors showed me that being an educator is about more than teaching content—it’s about showing up and being a reliable advocate. Be Innovative I was lucky to be mentored by educators who challenged me to move beyond traditional teaching methods. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

Beliefs 97

Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

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. Without a passing score, he could not participate in the requisite student teaching experience nor, as a result, finish his degree. That was in 2017. “It

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Exams Teachers Testing Math 193

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2023

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. Mentoring is actually teaching our kids how to communicate. Maybe you should just be at AP U.S.

Failure 207

Failure Assignments Communication Grades 207

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Pandemic-era disruptions have played a role, but so has the broader worry that a reliance on standardized admissions exams may exacerbate disparities among students of different races and income levels. Yet she also cites another barrier to broadening access to college-level math: teaching style. It did not use demographic data.

Exams 172

Exams English Math Instructors 172

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2025

Other assessments such as the critical thinking-focused international PISA exam have also indicated declining math abilities. But surprisingly, the most notable failure was in graduate programs, which performed far worse than their undergraduate counterparts, even though they are preparing prospective teachers for the same job.

Elementary School 199

Elementary School Elementary School Math Teachers 199

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Professors are still struggling to adapt to the new realities of teaching during a pandemic. That’s the case for Bonni Stachowiak, dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University and host of the long-running Teaching In Higher Education podcast. EdSurge: What has surprised you most about teaching during this pandemic?

Failure 148

Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 16, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! Throughout my teaching career, I have asked numerous colleagues, mentors, and associates for their advice regarding excellent teaching. Watch others teach.

Teaching 80

Teaching Exams Assignments Failure 80

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time. It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time.”

Student Engagement 200

Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 200

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.” minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The takeaway?

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

“The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score? Higher levels of value motivate students.

Motivation 109

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

In the latest edition, 600,000 students in 79 education systems across the world took the two-hour PISA exam. On the PISA 2018 exam, the countries where the most students disagreed with that statement hail from Europe (led by Estonia, Denmark and Germany), with the U.S. In the U.S., that included 4,800 students from 215 schools.

Testing 132

Testing Exams Intelligence Failure 132

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

We’re at a very early stage of understanding what AI can possibly do for us, especially in the education teaching system,” he says. “I Likewise, with two million students, says Mitchell, “our algorithm will see vastly more student successes and failures than a human tutor can see in a 100-year career.”

Teachers 166

Teachers Intelligence Coaching Failure 166

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

This meant teams would also have to come to a common understanding of what those essentials meant, when they would be taught and what resources they would be using to teach them. It was, of course, filled in with the content the teachers would teach. Year Two: How will we know when they know or can do it?

Failure 144

Failure Exams Questions Evaluation 144

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. But the phones aren’t the problem.

Study 164

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 164

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

My role at the college where I teach is focused on assisting and remediating the students who are not meeting our academic standards, primarily in their didactic courses. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 16. Merritt, S.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

My role at the college where I teach is focused on assisting and remediating the students who are not meeting our academic standards, primarily in their didactic courses. I would also review individual exams with students to determine why they weren’t being successful. Teaching and Learning in Nursing, 16. Merritt, S.

Coaching 98

Coaching Exams Failure Learning Styles 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. Students and teachers alike are ready for a break. I’ve been there often.

Activities 172

Activities Learning Art Attention 172

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

Panel at NY Edtech Week At Success’ 46 schools in the New York area, students perform at the top 5 percent on math, English and science state exams, and Moskowitz’s words carry weight in the city. Yet what failure looks like, and how that can be accepted in schools where the collateral is students, led to debate.

Educational Technologies 118

Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 118

Edsurge

OCTOBER 16, 2017

Another form of the technology is “early warning” or “early alert” programs, which monitor how students are doing in class, identify nonacademic impediments to student success, and target students in danger of failure for extra counseling or other assistance.

Technology 151

Technology Education Syllabus Counselling 151

Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

“The basic construct refers to beliefs about the causes of success and failure and how much perceived control one has to bring about outcomes or to control one’s behavior.” (p. If the student comes to class, does the homework, and studies for the exam, will that produce a high score? Higher levels of value motivate students.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 98

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 26, 2015

US News blamed math knowledge for a 33% failure rate by Oklahoma high school seniors on their exit exams. In a world where teachers still suffer too often from tech failures, this is a welcome change. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-8 technology for 15 years. Con–which became a Pro.

Math 152

Math Failure Gamification Knowledge 152

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Teaching the days before big holidays is challenging. Tie-ins: This is an excellent gamified review for semester tests, final exams, or other summative assessments. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years.

Activities 174

Activities Learning Failure Essay 174

Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2017

Justin Reich, Executive Director of the MIT Teaching Systems Lab, and I summarized this existing evidence in our report that resulted from the series of meetings this past year, “ From Good Intentions to Real Outcomes: Equity by Design in Learning Technologies.” Despite the sobering findings, 2017 offered some notable bright spots.

Culture 144

Culture Failure Exams Attention 144

Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, school leaders Sarah Pedrotti and Jessica Torres are on a mission to flip the failure narrative and rebrand their school by motivating their teachers through personalized professional development. Each year students in Texas are required to take the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness exam, also known as the STAAR exam.

Exams 108

Exams Elementary School Elementary School Schools 108

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

–Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind The emergence of artificial intelligence (AI) has presented districts everywhere with new teaching and learning opportunities. This new age of teaching and learning will be more integrated into the day-to-day, more interdisciplinary, and more based on the lived experience of the teacher and student.

Schools 333

Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 333

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

He shared with me that he taught earth science, that there was a mandatory segment of the curriculum on rock identification that was a significant component of the state exam, and that every year students were less than enthused about the unit (to be charitable). and compulsory exams (accountability!) Dr. Richard Elmore , Gregory R.

Failure 0

Failure Exams Students Culture 0

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

To learn about making assignments more transparent, explore the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Framework. Or, in an Italian Studies class, students could create an open access eBook that teaches younger students about the Italian language and culture (see “ Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators ”).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

To learn about making assignments more transparent, explore the Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) Framework. Or, in an Italian Studies class, students could create an open access eBook that teaches younger students about the Italian language and culture (see “ Empowering College Students to be OER Creators and Curators ”).

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

That will continue the cycle of failure. For those of us tasked with overcoming massive learning gaps and bringing success to at-risk students who have known nothing else but failure, this type of compromise might be the only way to do it. But when you’re personalizing instruction for every learner in your class, it can drown you.

Failure 107

Failure Learning Testing Assignments 107

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 1, 2018

Depending upon the level of service subscribed to, students can view videos, take practice quizzes and exams, and get credit for classes passed through a proctored exam. All they need is an internet connection and a webcam (for proctored exams). Take quizzes and proctored exams available in your subscription.

Exams 82

Exams Quizzes Textbooks Syllabus 82

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This article first appeared in The Teaching Professor on December 16, 2019 © Magna Publications. Try a FREE three-week trial of The Teaching Professor! Throughout my teaching career, I have asked numerous colleagues, mentors, and associates for their advice regarding excellent teaching. Watch others teach.

Teaching 52

Teaching Exams Assignments Failure 52

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. The most common way to do this is with some kind of a test, which traditionally happens at the end of a unit — a final exam of some kind. And he actually teaches this to kids, FADAF, you know, You got to FADAF this one.”

Multiple Choice Questions 126

Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 126

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

Among the tools the district found was Teach to One: Math (TTO), a digital personalized learning program by New Classrooms , a New York-based nonprofit, that adapts to a student’s individual skills and gaps. Effective immediately, the district will discontinue using Teach to One,” Rudolph wrote in a letter to parents on Jan.

Learning 143

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 143

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

We often feel pulled in multiple directions – with service commitments and research projects on top of teaching responsibilities – so finding time to grade student papers, exams, projects, and in-class work can feel challenging. Grading student work can be the most labor intensive part of the job for most of us.

Grades 113

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 113