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. Table of Contents 1. Begin with a fresh start 2.
Edsurge
JUNE 16, 2025
Chris Gethard, a veteran comedian and improv teacher, posed this question to a group of high school students in Northern California at a Laughing Together workshop he was leading. Markus Alcantar, a senior and a peer counselor at Lincoln High School, said his favorite exercise of the workshop was one in which he got to become an apple.
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Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 11, 2025
Or a policy might say failure to properly cite sources is plagiarism. AI with intention: Principles and action steps for teachers and school leaders. Cheating in the age of generative AI: A high school survey study of cheating behaviors before and after the release of ChatGPT. Miles, S., & Zrate, R.C. Campbell, M.,
Teacher Toms Blog
JUNE 19, 2025
His best known work, Deschooling Society , published in 1971 is a no holds barred critique of institutionalized, compulsory schooling, arguing that the overall effect is to alienate most children from their own learning. His mother told me that in high school he was feeling pressure and said, "'What's the point?
Edsurge
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
Boise’s One Stone doesn’t resemble your typical high school—here you won’t find classrooms, teachers or even letter grades. Vulnerability leads to inclusive groups, deeper friendships, a high level of creative collaboration and a willingness to fail forward. Instead, we have a single open space, coaches and portfolios.
Edsurge
JUNE 4, 2025
A 2007 study led by Robert Balfanz at Johns Hopkins found that chronic absence in middle school and high school is often a leading predictor of dropping out. Given the citys many attempts and failures to solve chronic absenteeism, is this problem unsolvable? It has lasting effects through the upper grades, too.
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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