Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Make failure fun. I have online efriends whose students use Minecraft to build molecules for a chemistry class, designs for 3D printing, and bridges for an 8th grade science project. A note: Any time students use the internet, start with a discussion on how to use it safely. Encourage this rather than entering an unknown server-world.

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Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Privilege, opportunity and happenstance led to my first encounter with TFA at a career fair during my junior year of college, where I was eventually recruited. Thanks to TFA, you can leave after a few years and they’ll find a new young, energetic and inexperienced person to fill the spot. Is This the Best We Can Do?

Teaching 168

Teaching Culture Failure Fairness 168

Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

To help students succeed or acquire mastery in important skill sets, some online instructors offer a second chance to redo assignments and improve their grades. It helps students achieve their full potential, improves overall grades and academic performance, and creates a more positive academic experience.

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Student Engagement Instructors Fairness Assignments 92

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2023

What if you’re a new first grade teacher, and you realize the classroom methods you’re using to teach your students to read just aren’t working. That was sort of her first one really looking at the failure of early reading instruction. EdSurge recently sat down with the film’s director, Jenny Mackenzie. Is it evidence-based?

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Reading Failure Fairness Testing 162

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2017

Remember that infamous “bell” curve, where a select few are measured “above” the grade and others “below,” is a myth. That's been the guiding mantra of fairness in our system. In this world, would there be such a thing as failure? Rose points out that something seemingly as simple as an “average” body is hardly simple.

Intelligence 147

Intelligence Failure Science Beliefs 147

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Consider having optional mini-lessons for students that want the extension, but design your grading rubric such that your beginners can demonstrate what they have learned successfully. Failure is a valuable part of the process, and your attitude toward failure will shape the attitude of your students.

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Science STEM Failure Middle School 110

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2016

That might work for adults, but it’s a prescription for boredom and failure with K-8 students. KidzType recognizes that their customer is the grade 2-8 student, not the parent or teacher. They require a mixture of activities, only one of which is drill. I’ve discussed my eclectic mixture in earlier posts. Nitro Type.

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Students Failure Fairness Discussions 104

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

At some point the stresses on the system will cause it to break but for now they can continue to push on the edges, knowing that our schools’ eventual failure will occur during someone else’s political cycle. Smoking, steroids, illegal drugs, and 3rd grade retention? Your thoughts? Related Posts.

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Questions Schools Fairness Failure 111

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 2, 2017

These are collected from students when they tried to use tech for class projects, parents when their children couldn’t finish their homework because of tech issues, and members of your grade-level team who wanted to use tech for a lesson plan but Something Happened. There’s a lot to be learned from failure.

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Skills Teachers Failure Learning 84

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

If they fail at the Science Fair, they’ll fall in love with art instead. This clever free online tool provides a template for encouraging students to learn rather than simply track grades. In a Fixed Mindset your failures define you like, “I’m no good at dancing!” It’s called Sown to Grow.

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Critical Thinking Failure Evaluation Fairness 96

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

Are they able to cheer each other on, or is our higher ed system set up so that there are so few slots that each is much better off if they get a high grade and the other gets a lower grade? But neither’s success depends on the other one's failure. And he says there's something about that that isn't about fairness.

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Fairness Ethics Failure Lecturing 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 31, 2023

But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Discuss the meaning of ‘Fair Use’ It provides rights to use images for education purposes without obtaining permission from the creator. How does ‘fair use’ apply to your academic research?

Plagiarism 125

Plagiarism Fairness Discussions Art 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

But, to try to teach this topic in a thirty-minute set-aside dug out of the daily class inquiry is a prescription for failure. Discuss the meaning of ‘Fair Use’ It provides rights to use images for education purposes without obtaining permission from the creator. How does ‘fair use’ apply to your academic research?

Plagiarism 124

Plagiarism Fairness Discussions Art 124

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

And to be fair, Carol Dweck has acknowledged that this is part of her research program, so I'm not criticizing her particularly. A lot of what we want to do is to give students more opportunities to do things that may not be correlated with grades, right? And what that teaches us is really good learning is about never making mistakes.

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Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 149

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

When it comes to the youngest students she tutors, those in kindergarten through fourth grade, Perez says they all need help with reading. The only score that surpassed 2019 results was Louisianas performance in fourth-grade reading. Thats down from a fourth grade high of 223 in 2015 and an eighth grade high of 268 in 2013.

Reading 191

Reading Skills Language Languages 191

k12 Online Schools

MAY 6, 2025

Parental Pressure We often feel guilty when our kids are bored, interpreting it as a failure to engage them. No-grade passion projects: Students work on topics they love, from dinosaurs to robotics, without the pressure of evaluation. Host a Boredom Fair where students present ideas or creations sparked from unstructured time.

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Intelligence Evaluation Interdisciplinary Writing 52