eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. Homework is often designed to be simple, easily completed, and graded primarily for completion rather than mastery. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. newsletters. I’m New Here.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 276

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And so when you talk about critiques of the lecture style of teaching, you group that under a practice that lacks authenticity. One of the things that is apparent as you start to read about the lecture-versus-active learning debates is that everyone is defining those terms in very different ways. Do I need this?

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Art Science Teaching Failure 167

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Julie Lynem’s son had taken algebra in eighth grade, but hadn’t comprehended some of the core concepts. That left the family to decide whether to make him repeat the class in ninth grade — and potentially disadvantage him by preventing him from taking calculus later in high school — or to have him push through.

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Math Schools Middle School Middle School 205

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Many educators are wondering about whether grading policies should be relaxed because of how stressed everyone is, and with so many students facing tough life circumstances of tech access. To me, it starts with: What is the purpose of grading? So there should be failure in all of our classes. What is your position on that?

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 148

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

I left third grade and my third-grade teacher Ms. My fourth-grade teacher, Ms. She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 140

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

My husband, Dave, and I have now been thrust into the role of teachers for our two kids—one in kindergarten and the other in second grade—for the past couple of months. I would take a lawn chair out front and enjoy grading in the shade of one of our trees. Their actual teachers are amazing.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 198

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

At my suburban school in South Carolina, the term is used liberally to describe students who may fail the End of Course Tests, students who might not get promoted to the next grade level and those at risk of dropping out of school. Historically, I approached this lesson through direct instruction, building a presentation to support a lecture.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The added benefit to this is that teachers are more likely to understand student frustrations and thus be more inclined to adjust their own grading to judge improvement rather than failure as a final endpoint. It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture.

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eLearning Failure Lecturing Instructors 143

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

Students are grouped by academic need so teachers can review topics with struggling students while the rest of the class works at their own pace, often on a playlist of exercises assigned by Canvas (grades 6-12) or Google Classroom (K-5). Even if students are working at different grade-levels, they don’t feel excluded.”.

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Blended Learning Learning Elementary School Elementary School 146

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My classroom was set up with desks in rows and my lessons included lectures with PowerPoint presentations, worksheets and textbook work. Many of my students don’t have this mindset. This viewpoint can be debilitating for a learner.

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 141

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Instead of learning from a combination of books, lectures and software, as students do at most schools, the primary mode of instruction for kids attending Quest to Learn is games. minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. The takeaway? Part of that success may be attributable to the way games are designed—e.g.,

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

They also are more likely to graduate high school on time, are more likely to enroll in 4-year colleges and universities (particularly true for 9th grade low achievers), and persist and graduate from college at higher rates. ‘Rock star’ professor lectures + Lower-cost instructional facilitators = The future of higher education?

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

” He points to Harvard professor Eric Mazur ‘s discovery that pausing his lectures periodically, checking for student understanding, and then allowing students to teach each other to correct misconceptions was a game-changer for getting more students to master his material. There’s no stack of papers to grade.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 129

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

The first step for creating a risk-informed adult learner is an environment that facilitates social dialogue between the learner and the lecturer. Creating such an environment is the responsibility of the lecturer who should establish certain parameters for communication. Create a social presence in your class environment.

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Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 105

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Failure should be viewed as part of the learning experience.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. Now if the test changed and you saw an emphasis on those skills—and if you could demonstrate that games were a more effective way to teach them than a lecture or a reading—then I think you’d see the adoption skyrocket.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

As a guy who lives on the cutting edge of technology, I found it very frustrating to see how far behind the school was, not just in terms of their use of one-off tech and old-school tools, like clickers and white boards, but their failure to connect the dots between better outcomes and using things like big data and mobile technologies.”

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 99

Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

This can be a real challenge for procrastinators, multitaskers, responsibility jugglers and anyone tempted to half-listen to a lecture while scrolling through social media—in other words, many people. Leaders at institutions that specialize in online higher ed know this. The results of the trial are promising, Meyer says.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Students 200

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

Progress — and success — is dependent on the completion of various tasks rather than seat time as is the metric used in most states (for example, in my state of California, students must attend class 175-180 days a year to pass that grade). Grades are to facilitate and improve learning, not judge students. Keep working.

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Learning Achievement Failure Math 86

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

Both articles reflect the growing interest in and use of these more elaborate delineations of grading criteria. For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. They may consult the textbook or lecture notes.

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Instructors Assignments Failure Students 64

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 5, 2023

Both articles reflect the growing interest in and use of these more elaborate delineations of grading criteria. For instructors, rubrics expedite grading with standards; at the same time, they reinforce learning objectives and standardize course curricula. They may consult the textbook or lecture notes.

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Instructors Assignments Failure Students 52

k12

MAY 2, 2025

Understanding the Role of Teachers in Youth Education Teachers do far more than lecture in front of the class. How a teacher handles conflict, treats others, or responds to failure sends powerful messages to students. Teachers impact students as mentors, motivators, role models, and leaders.

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Teachers Education Failure Beliefs 52

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If they know about (and are impressed by) your work, they may even see opportunities to work with you collaboratively or nominate you for guest lectures or conference roles. Making the Grade What do I need to do to get tenure? You may be invited to review a book, to chair a workshop, or give a lecture at another institution.

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Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 61

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

If they know about (and are impressed by) your work, they may even see opportunities to work with you collaboratively or nominate you for guest lectures or conference roles. Making the Grade What do I need to do to get tenure? You may be invited to review a book, to chair a workshop, or give a lecture at another institution.

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Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 54

Lab to Class

JANUARY 3, 2024

In addition to this, it is important to keep instructional methods varied as research shows that a variety of teaching styles is more effective at keeping students engaged and giving information than simply expecting students to sit in rows and listen to lectures. Maksimenko et al.,

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Teaching Teachers Activities Reading 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Many are intimidated by their professors, see attending office hours as a failure to figure the material out on their own or simply don’t understand what their purpose is. In Vaughn’s study, students also viewed visiting office hours as a sign of weakness or a form of academic failure.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 192

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. Each person going into the game has about a 50 percent chance of succeeding.

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Fairness Ethics Failure Lecturing 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

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? So to get good grades, you have to get the answers on each test correct, which means that the kids with the best grades, generally speaking, make the fewest mistakes.

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Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 148