Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods. That class always has a wait list now.”

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Whiteboard Blog

JUNE 10, 2025

This new framework highlights how AI can be a powerful ally for teachers, helping to streamline tasks and enrich the learning experience. The DfE, in collaboration with the Chartered College of Teaching and Chiltern Learning Trust, has not only provided a roadmap but also the tools to navigate this new terrain.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

Often state policies require students to take complicated exams or pay to take the classes. Students also may put off required math courses once they get to college, which worsens their learning loss. Some areas may not have enough qualified teachers to offer them.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Students may feel lonely, and faculty can feel overwhelmed even in well-designed online classes; however, a focus on engagement and well-being educators can support faculty and students via simple, low-tech, and personalized strategies in conjunction with the learning platform. Learning does not occur in isolation.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

At our college, we have learned that it means weaving ideas, theories, and methods from many fields to examine a shared theme or question. O’Sullivan (2025) suggests a “U-shaped learning” model for teaching across fields, focusing on two main skills: blending knowledge and putting it to work. Yang et al. Yang et al.

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Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 54

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Find new ways to assess learning 5. Build a learning team 11.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 21, 2025

Write a review for yesterday’s lesson See if students can remember what they learned yesterday by writing a short review of the previous day’s lesson. 4 Entertaining ELA Games for Middle School Show junior high students that learning can be a blast! If they’d prefer, let them write in a texting or social media format.

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Edsurge

APRIL 22, 2025

These standards promote academic excellence, critical thinking, and a learning environment that empowers all military-connected students to excel. Reading restrictions could impair their critical thinking skills and what they learn about different communities. The plaintiffs paint another picture of DoDEA.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Through her, I learned that advocacy means listening, guiding, and supporting with consistency and compassion. Be a Cheerleader One of the most joyful lessons I learned from a mentor was to bring genuine enthusiasm into the classroom. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

Through her, I learned that advocacy means listening, guiding, and supporting with consistency and compassion. Be a Cheerleader One of the most joyful lessons I learned from a mentor was to bring genuine enthusiasm into the classroom. Her example helped me see failure not as defeat, but as an essential part of learning.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98

Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

Accreditation costs, capstone portfolio software, and national and state certification exams have contributed to the enrollment “chill.” Take our Advice appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Simultaneously, costs associated with teacher preparation programs have increased.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 19, 2025

Accreditation costs, capstone portfolio software, and national and state certification exams have contributed to the enrollment “chill.” Take our Advice appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. Simultaneously, costs associated with teacher preparation programs have increased.

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eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

At Martin Middle School, the percentage of students meeting grade level expectations on the state math exam cratered during the pandemic, falling from 40% in 2019 to 24% in 2022. What strategy have you learned from Mr. Love on how to solve this problem? One portion of that exam requires students to work without calculators.

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Elevate k12

JUNE 20, 2025

High workload: Besides teaching classes, grading assignments and exams, and providing feedback, full-time teachers must plan lessons, attend meetings and professional development programs, and organize extracurricular activities. States that paid the highest salaries were Washington ($72.3k), California($73.2k), and New York ($76.4k).

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Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 28, 2025

But with exams, homework, and college prep piling up, its easy to forget theres a whole planet waiting to be explored. It includes 20 prompts that help students learn Spanish and immerse themselves in the culture. Have one best friend who always has your back or a big friend group that boosts your ego?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

In 2015-16, 86 percent of the district’s fifth-grade students scored as proficient in math on the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) exam—up from 75 percent the prior year. It has put all of our campuses on the same playing field, so that all students have the same opportunity to learn.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Garcia teaches an intro to coding course at UC Berkeley called “The Beauty and Joy of Computing,” and offers a version of the curriculum for high school teachers preparing students for the AP CS Principles exam. Alexandra Diracles Alexandra Diracles, CEO of Vidcode, a computer science learning platform for kids, goes another step further.

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Cal Matters

JULY 8, 2025

It took Nisbet roughly seven months to pass the county’s background checks and exams, which include a written test, a psychological exam and a medical exam. The college program requires students to learn CPR, first aid, and various laws about use of force, search and seizure and firearms.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2025

A family friend was disqualified at this exam, and this book explains what to do if you have a problem. You can find her resources at Structured Learning. It has check lists, examples of application materials, her application resume and explanations on how to solve certain problems that come up.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 9, 2019

As a student, I remember the stress of preparing for final exams. Sometimes I didn’t even know what the format of the final exam would be…essay, multiple choice, or short answer. My suggestion was to create a personalized final exam. ” I never had a clear sense of what content would appear on the final.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 5, 2024

When states that normally required a high school exit exam waived that requirement, graduation rates went up. When students spent a greater share of time learning remotely or in a hybrid setup, graduation rates fell. More time in remote learning lowered grad rates Graduation rate trends varied a lot across the U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Students across the country take AP exams in hopes of earning high exam scores that help them opt out of college prerequisites and ultimately save money on tuition. Give students as much practice as possible answering questions that look like the AP exam. Start talking about the test on Day 1.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2021

Students taking Advanced Placement® courses through VHS Learning maintained their decade-plus record of exceeding the national average pass rate on AP® exams. A score of 3 or higher on an AP® exam is considered a “passing” grade for AP® college credit at many universities. About VHS Learning.

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eSchool News

JULY 28, 2022

Boston – July 28, 2022 – Two VHS Learning students earned top honors on the 2022 National Latin Exam (NLE), with one achieving a perfect score and earning a gold medal. Both students took VHS Learning’s Advanced Placement® Latin course, which is the equivalent of a first semester college Latin course. About VHS Learning.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Boston – VHS Learning students surpassed national average pass rates on their Advanced Placement (AP)® exams during the 2021-22 academic year, marking more than a decade of high achievement. VHS Learning has offered AP® courses online for the past 19 years, and it currently has a selection of 26 AP® courses available.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

15, 2021 – VHS Learning students maintained their more-than-a-decade-long record of surpassing average national Advanced Placement® pass rates. A score of 3 or higher on an AP® exam is considered a “passing” grade for AP® college credit at many universities. About VHS Learning. Boston – Nov.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Since the Advanced Placement (AP) program began in the 1950s, tens of millions of students have taken their exams in school, with paper and pencil, over the course of several hours. The result was an open book, open note, abbreviated at-home exam , using whatever device a student had available. It was not without its hiccups.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2020

The truth is that not all online learning experiences are of suspect quality. When done well, online learning can be highly successful—opening the door to numerous learning opportunities that students otherwise wouldn’t be exposed to, while providing very rich and rigorous instruction. Qualified teachers. Qualified teachers.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2019

As the fall semester comes to a close, many teachers are thinking about final exams or end of the semester summative assessments. Often those semester exams cover a lot of information. The prospect of preparing students for those exams can be daunting. Instead of asking, “How can I help students to review for the exam?”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2022

Colleges can’t tap into a student’s webcam to scan the room around them during remote exams. One of the students, Aaron Ogletree, filed the lawsuit, noting that his personal documents—including tax forms that he didn’t have time to remove before the exam—were visible, and that the scan was essentially an unreasonable search.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2024

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation K-12 learning solutions leader, is excited to introduce Savvas PathMaker, a brand-new, all-in-one solution for college and career readiness that gives students a head start on post-high school success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 27, 2024

Because studying for exams can feel overwhelming. xx The Ask a Tech Teacher team shares a variety of digital tools that improve and streamline exam prep: How Digital Study Techniques Improve Exam Preparation Studying for exams can often feel like this huge, monumental task that causes not only stress but existential anxiety.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

It is also a cognitively challenging task since it requires thinking about the key concepts in a unit or learning cycle and producing a collection of questions to guide students in recalling information and developing a deeper understanding of the material. This is much more effective than having a single Jeopardy review game before an exam.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 13, 2023

Preparing for exams requires a systematic approach to ensure you cover all the necessary material and feel confident on test day. This pressure can actually hurt your chances of doing well on the exams. Preparation is the best way to not feel stressed and go into the exams with a clear mind.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

When they take their seats for the morning bell, learning fractions or the parts of a sentence is often the furthest thing from their minds. In fact, O’Grady’s third graders last year performed 10 points higher than the national third-grade average on NWEA’s Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) benchmark exam. Promoting active learning.

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