Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Giving feedback in university courses allows for the provision of supportive ideas for improvement, elaboration, and/or heightened thinking as students prepare for job factors outside of their university preparation. Feedback Literacy.

Feedback 119

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 119

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure. In the past, a poor grade usually resulted in the negative feelings associated with failure. They are more willing to listen to and apply the feedback I give them because they are determined to master skills and level up.

Gamification 279

Gamification Game-Based Learning Failure Students 279

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2021

Failure to identify and name the mental models driving our actions and decisions will undermine any effort to make long-term change in a system. Similarly, teachers should collect feedback from students about their experience. ” Unearthing Our Mental Models. Which technology tools were most useful?

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Mental Models Education Hybrid Learning Blended Learning 541

eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2024

If you don’t have failure built into your maker education and your PBL system, just forget it. Embracing those failures has to be part of your culture.” “Do your students feel safe to build? Do your students feel safe to screw up? I don’t want a kid to not try an idea because they won’t get the A.

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Curriculum Failure Essay Art 300

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Develop secure, anonymous lines of communication for feedback. Create a culture of agency where both students and teachers are empowered to take risks, be creative, and learn from failures. Truly active and empathetic listening is, in its own way, an innovative practice. School leaders face no shortage of edtech purchasing options.

Schools 294

Schools Failure Feedback Culture 294

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

Giving feedback in university courses allows for the provision of supportive ideas for improvement, elaboration, and/or heightened thinking as students prepare for job factors outside of their university preparation. Feedback Literacy.

Feedback 98

Feedback Reading Disabilities Assignments 98

Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2021

Our practice develops over time with experimentation, successes and failures, and student feedback. It will take time and a willingness to pursue our own learning. I often say that I want teachers to think of themselves as the lead learner in a classroom. There is no endpoint when it comes to learning, which should be exciting!

Universal Design 294

Universal Design Blended Learning Authentic Assessment Learning 294

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Additionally, teachers can integrate discussions on the value of learning and integrity into the curriculum, using tools like student reflections and peer feedback to reinforce these values. Research supports the use of formative assessments–ongoing checks for understanding that provide both teachers and students with timely feedback.

Academic Integrity 211

Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 211

eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2019

Leadership skills require people to look inward and find self-confidence that will not only guide them toward successes but focus them through failures—an inevitable part of all leadership positions. Solicit opinions and feedback. The best way to solicit feedback and opinions is being willing to ask questions.

Failure 259

Failure Feedback Culture Skills 259

eSchool News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

They will have some amazing successes—and some failures—as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. I have colleagues who have used AI tools to create rubrics and to offer feedback on rubrics they’d already created.

Education 334

Education Intelligence Failure Feedback 334

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Personalizing feedback at scale In my opinion, personalization at scale is the frontrunner in the diadem of benefits that the AI revolution has inspired. Educators and teachers now, however, can use specialized AI chatbots to realize this dream, using attempted assessments and answer keys to grade, mark, and provide feedback.

Quizzes 297

Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 297

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other. In one lesson, we transformed KIBO into a snowplow by designing a plow for the front of the robot and programming it to clear snow (or cotton balls).

Teaching 278

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

When we feel like students’ every movement is a reflection of our professional competency or personal failure, it is easy to focus more on enforcing student compliance than cultivating student joy. Instead, my coach provided qualitative feedback and gave me time to revise my strategies based on her tips. He just listened and nodded.

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Coaching Teachers Evaluation Feedback 218

eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

The MakerBot Innovation Center will help us teach these skills as it offers a very different, more hands-on learning environment that gives students more freedom to experiment, learn from failure and progress their thinking.”. This faster output makes a profound difference in how students are able to work on their projects.

High School 213

High School High School Schools Failure 213

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. To fix this problem, I used the “sandwich approach” in the feedback I gave him. This feedback was usually something simple like, “I love your idea here!”.

Teaching 189

Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Vulnerability leads to inclusive groups, deeper friendships, a high level of creative collaboration and a willingness to “fail forward” (or to learn from failure). In order to learn from failure, we must reflect on the flaws in our ideas, so that we don’t repeat the same mistake. Receiving feedback helps us grow by leaps and bounds.

Failure 286

Failure Feedback Culture Students 286

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

For example, if you want students to support claims with relevant details, that expectation should be stated on a rubric that is given to students well in advance of when the assignment is due, and should be the focus of lessons, formative feedback, and student reflection. Writing and reasoning get better with feedback and effort.

Academic Integrity 88

Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 88

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2016

Playing our games will help children to succeed in school and develop problem solving skills without a fear of failure. At the same time, it will allow educators to increase engagement, provide appropriate level challenges for students at different levels and receive instant feedback,” said Ian Natzmer, the founder and CEO of Odeum Learning.

Failure 160

Failure Schools Social Studies Elementary School 160

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

When Failure Is an Option “I have seen students really focus on the material and engage with one another and not worry as much about a grade because if they fail something they can always make up the points from somewhere else,” Queen explains. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

k12 Digest

APRIL 15, 2025

The goal is to ensure that teachers are comfortable using AI for their own professional purposes, such as lesson planning, generating resources, and providing personalized student feedback. Optimizing Learning Environments AI can be used to optimize school operations and create more effective learning environments.

Intelligence 222

Intelligence Learning Failure Academic Integrity 222

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

Lecturing 211

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 211

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

It’s just been like an interesting clumsy thing, but I still feel like when I ask students for feedback, they are really having a good time. Ken Bain, the author of “What the Best College Teachers Do,” talks about this a lot—this idea that failure is a part of learning. So there should be failure in all of our classes.

Failure 141

Failure Feedback Students Exams 141

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Scaffolded assignments: Break significant projects into smaller, more manageable parts, such as proposals, annotated bibliographies, and rough drafts, to reduce student anxiety and provide opportunities for meaningful feedback at each step, improving learning outcomes (Ambrose, 2010).

Plagiarism 121

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 121

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Teachers spend a lot of time teaching students to work in groups, identifying different roles and practicing how to give feedback on a game or a project in a way that's constructive. One of our game-based learning principles is "failure reframed as iteration." It's very much scaffolded, especially when students come into sixth grade.

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Game-Based Learning Skills Learning Middle School 178

Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2016

When schools and technology providers attempt to work together without understanding each other, the result can be a costly failure. They can’t make their product better if you don’t give them honest feedback. A true entrepreneur will be eager for genuine feedback. Give them fair feedback on their price.

Education 142

Education Failure Feedback Fairness 142

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

We perform critiques of each others’ work, learning how to offer and accept feedback from our classmates and from professional architects, and how we can iterate our designs based on that feedback. When students seem to sputter, we huddle with them to demonstrate modes of feedback they can use with each other.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

I gave only feedback on student work, with no grades on any assignment. Because this was an ungraded class, the focus was on feedback. On homework, I gave students detailed written feedback, phrased in terms of clear “homework objectives,” but no grades. I often thought mistakes meant failure. Inspired by Susan D.

Feedback 175

Feedback Fairness Grades Assignments 175

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. They make us want to discover new things, they provide immediate feedback and they spell out goals in a clear way. Yet elements such as clear goals, the use of strategy and even low-stakes failure were less frequently associated with successful outcomes.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. Reflection is a skill that requires practice and feedback, just like anything else. At my last school in San Jose, Calif., we barraged our students with growth mindset lessons during the first two weeks of school. Gupta, I get it.

Beliefs 160

Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 160

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? Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2019

Instant feedback can be horrible for a piece of writing. So I spent a lot of time just setting the terms of the action: Here's what we're going to try to do, here are the parameters under which I want us to do it, and I then provide a soundboard and feedback. That feedback by itself is not helpful.

Writing 167

Writing Essay Feedback Students 167

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Take notes and tie feedback into their personal goals or hobbies.” Q2: For our new-trad students who are often first gen, hearing our human stories of failure and challenge is critical to building trust. As Paul Wilson said, “Teachers can communicate through design, discussion interaction, and formative feedback.”

Failure 132

Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 132

eSchool News

MARCH 25, 2022

As tutoring progresses, the Littera platform captures student and tutor feedback, attendance, and dosage data, and connects the dots for schools and teachers to have visibility into tutoring programs executed on the platform. About Saga Education.

Achievement 141

Achievement Education Math Failure 141

Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Being able to provide specific, meaningful feedback about student performance in these learning outcomes came after a lot of failures on my part. A favorite failure occurred while facilitating a wellness event for second graders. For a long time, “work ethic” and “agency” were simply other terms for “turned in on time.”

Grades 163

Grades Failure Ethics Interdisciplinary 163

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

It’s about trying different strategies, seeking out and making use of feedback, asking for help, and analyzing the reasons behind successes and failures. This goes a long way towards taking the stigma away from failure, and encouraging children to take on the challenges that will truly make them grow.

Failure 138

Failure Learning Achievement Essay 138

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

academics, I overreact to negative feedback. Or, “Before you go in that direction, I wonder if you shouldn’t get more feedback.” Teaching can knock you down and rub your face in failure. Like many (dare I say all?) I can ponder a criticism dashed off in a minute for days. Colleagues put those comments in context.

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Failure Feedback Questions Teaching 111