eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

On average, about 25 percent of children in the early grades struggle with reading. In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. Because what I have noticed is that most of this conversation happens in distinct corners,” he says. “And

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eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. Second, low-proficiency readers struggle with motivation. Essentially, struggling readers have a low reading self-concept, which is linked to lower motivation. Given the high anxiety and low motivation, struggling readers only perform at a low reading level.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Who decided that grading and assessment should be the exclusive responsibility of teachers? Self-assessment shifts the focus from a grade-centric perspective to a learning-centric one. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

As novice sixth grade math and English teachers, weve learned to approach our mid-year benchmark assessments not as final judgments but as tools for reflection and growth. This perspective transforms data analysis into an empowering process; data is a tool for improvement amongst our students rather than a measure of failure.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2025

Key points: Students who feel supported feel empowered to learn and achieve 3 critical areas necessary to boost student motivation Expanded learning can improve student well-being For more on student achievement, visit eSN’s SEL & Well-Being hub Every student should get to feel brilliant at school. But too often, they dont.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sustaining that interest is important, too, particularly because girls and underrepresented minority groups quickly lose interest in STEM learning–and never regain motivation to pursue it. This motivates students to tackle more difficult challenges.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

The tools developed for this study draw on principles of behavioral economics, motivation theory and learning cognition theory to help students want to improve and connect with teachers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students. Research by Dorland (2023) shows that design thinking training may enable students to embrace, rather than struggle with failure in their work. Design thinking also has a positive impact on the overall motivation and engagement of students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2019

If playing games is part of our culture, even part of our identities, then it stands to reason that students can be highly motivated by game-based learning opportunities. One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure. So what if we make classrooms the game?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Grade retention is ineffective and expensive, but 17 states and Washington, D.C. mandate it (and at least 12 more states allow it) for students who are not reading proficiently by grade 3. Retention takes away their social group and identifies them for all their peers as not being good enough to advance.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. But despite these challenges, there are bright spots in teaching and learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 1, 2018

If I don’t give my students homework in 7th grade, am I setting them up for failure in their future advanced courses? At the beginning of my career in Chicago, I taught 7th- and 8th-grade math in a system where students took a test and applied to get into selective high schools. My homework past.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer. Such creative writing tasks motivate students to explore new words and topics they might avoid in the classroom or everyday conversation.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

One of the most challenging parts of creativity is resisting the impulse to give up when you meet failure or criticism of your ideas, which students commonly face at school when working on group projects or receiving grades.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. More focus on grades than learning When students are preoccupied with grades, they often lose sight of the learning process itself.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Grading student work can be the most labor intensive part of the job for most of us. 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.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

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Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Grading student work can be the most labor intensive part of the job for most of us. 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.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

They may have set goals such as getting a high grade in a course, graduating with honors, landing a specific internship, or getting accepted into a graduate program. By customizing these students’ goals and planning, the students can increase their motivation and engagement in learning. In many classes (e.g.,

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation. But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. What would it be if you were to give yourself a grade right now?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability. Parents also have a role to play here.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., People think there is a hard, fast rule to the process,” says Jennifer DeBenedetti, a fifth grade teacher at the Gregory School in Tucson, Ariz., Instead, failure should be celebrated and integral to learning.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. Their grades are determined by points accumulated. Gameful Design. Our goal is really to help people think differently about teaching and learning,” Niemer says.

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level. Before, students were mostly concerned with getting the work done; now, they are motivated to reflect and improve.

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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. Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. They obtained a large federal grant and asked to conduct research in my classroom. Of course I said yes. The purpose?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. What motivates you, both as a teacher and an entrepreneur? That really motivates me to continue. Failure also motivates me. When I say we risk failure, I mean we’re trying our absolute best. Chris Hull is a busy guy. He also helps run.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2023

The significance of this cannot be overstated, which is why we once again point to the results of the most recent NAEP Report Card : only 35% of students read proficiently by grade 4, and reading assessment scores are the lowest they’ve been in decades.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. Some folks commented: “I have dyscalculia…When I was in the 3rd grade, my teacher yelled at me and said, 'How do you not understand this yet?!' She started to see mistakes not as failures but as opportunities to learn and grow.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

In some cases we can force ourselves to pay attention if there’s an external motivator, like grades, but we’re not learning as much in those conditions as we would if there were other kinds of evidence-based activities and interactive strategies used. They switch off, and our attention spans follow really quickly.

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eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

11 Research evidence lacking: Despite OG/MSL’s popularity and backing, research evidence of its efficacy for students with dyslexia beyond 3 rd grade is lacking, despite almost a century of application. 22 Thus, the total cost for each special ed student in states like Massachusetts may be over $200k ($20k x 10 years – grades 3-12).

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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. When John first started in my class, his academic skills were minimal: His reading was well below grade level. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.

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