eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. In middle grade math, imagine sophisticated diagnostic assessments generating a personalized learning plan that adapts daily and allows each student to drive their own progress using a variety of learning modalities.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

Educators should examine the number of parents who are not knowledgeable about the various methods of communication that are available to them through their school district. First off, I would argue that educators need to work on improving the digital literacy of their students’ parents.

Communication

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Nationwide, the pandemic has exacerbated preexisting educational inequalities and led to steep academic declines in both math and reading that have not yet stabilized. Drawing on scientific knowledge, learners brainstorm designs, and then build, test, and analyze them iteratively to generate original solutions.

Science

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

The issue is not just that K-12 education lacks challenging work; its that the system actively discourages failure. This wasnt a sign of failure; it was an essential part of learning. The emphasis on grades instead of growth fostered a fear of failure, making students hesitant to take risks.

Failure

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

By distilling a lecture’s knowledge into a set of handy flashcards, teachers can ensure their students’ progress and performance. Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects.

Quizzes

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It’s common for students who are used to learning math from lectures to be reluctant to think critically at first, learning assistants from the study say. Zuniga, now graduated, learned calculus through the active learning model, and it led her to pursue math courses outside of the degree requirements, she says.

Instructors

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2021

While summer school often conjures up images of reluctant students sitting in rows, watching the clock or gazing out the window, the scene inside Santa Fe’s Math Adventure Camp could not be more different. Students who are struggling with the math concepts work them through using visual modeling (as well as traditional pen-and-paper).

Math

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

This isn’t really about math. Nate and I collaborate regularly to support students as math learners, and together we’ve developed a kind of system of strategies — some that apply to all students, others only needed for a select few. He knew that if he made a mistake with a math problem, I wouldn’t be disappointed.

Math

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 4, 2018

She didn’t try to be my best friend and she didn’t make excuses for my third-grade failures. I started by reviewing knowledgeable websites like Benchmark Education. They are knowledgeable. It was a challenge to correct her without having her shut down, declare herself a failure, and move on.

Teachers

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

By implementing these strategies, CTE educators can expect a vibrant, engaging learning environment where students can obtain skills and knowledge for a successful future. More students than researchers previously thought struggle to decode or, use their knowledge of letter sounds to sound out complex, multisyllabic words.

Schools

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Anderson had cleared the reading and writing portions of the Praxis Core with ease, but he kept failing the math component. He racked up credits in education courses, inching closer to his degree, but could not, despite his every effort, seem to clinch that math exam. His career in social work has offered further proof of that. “He

Exams

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. Fear of failure can lead to a lack of creative thought and progress within communities. I’ve pointed out the social skills that band, orchestra and choir ensembles build.

Art

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. Required to understand the game’s big picture because few are based on common knowledge. Suddenly, Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice take on a whole new importance: What Math Standard Expects. Make failure fun.

Writing

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 24, 2015

Their motivation is often failure, and taking the wrong path again and again. Applying Past Knowledge to New Situations. The Common Core is not a curriculum, rather a collection of forty-one overarching Standards in reading, writing, language, math, and speaking/listening that shape a student’s quest for college and career.

Critical Thinking

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 6, 2015

That means new teachers must learn how to teach science, technology, engineering and math on-the-job. But it turns out too often, no one is tasked with providing that knowledge. Once a problem is solved, ask students to retain that knowledge, transfer it to other classes, and teach their friends. Try, fail, try again.

Teachers

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Students in the 21st century enter the classroom armed with a vast array of knowledge just a swipe away on various digital devices. Unfortunately, nationwide scores in math and reading are on the decline—these students often lack the skills to succeed in higher education. Create positive collaborative learning environments.

Lecturing

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 17, 2015

I also have colleagues who think it takes a special brain to understand tech (the same way students think about math and science)–one they don’t have. A lot of learning happens through failure. With your knowledge and teaching skills, you’ll understand the directions and how they connect to the bigger picture.

Technology

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2025

STEAM is an educational approach that includes science, technology, engineering, art, and math. Because art bridges the gap between creative expression and technical knowledge. A child who struggles with math might feel more confident when they see how it connects to something creative, like designing a math mosaic.

Art

Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

classes This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. A great option also is to program one of the widgets for an Hour of Code activity. Team Challenge Time required: 1.5

Activities

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

It just means that many of us struggle to operate simultaneously inside and outside of a system that was only built to test content-knowledge in a very standardized way. While we believe that it is essential for all students to be proficient in math, literacy, and the sciences, we believe that that is not enough.

History

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

Activities

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Research published in the International Journal of Communication found that teenagers who played games performed better in math, reading, and science. The study’s author said games “appear to equip students to apply and sharpen knowledge learned in school by requiring them to solve a series of puzzles before moving to the next game level.”.

Gamification

Edsurge

JANUARY 17, 2022

This is a class where I try to help students move from a rigid, “there’s only one way to do it and there’s always one correct answer” approach to math into a more nuanced view. I often thought mistakes meant failure. Students play the game with this knowledge in front of them.

Feedback

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

It’s not about zeros and ones, or math and science. Taking a class can help you broaden your knowledge, and it can also help you see other teaching styles. Troubleshooting failure is one of the biggest things coders focus on, but kids might find this leads to frustration.

Teaching

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The connecting thesis across Dunce Capital’s portfolio is Danner’s belief that the internet has made knowledge abundant, and so “the future of learning will be organized around the student, making learning convenient and equally available” to everyone, he states. But ever the contrarian, Danner didn’t take his own advice.

Education

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2018

Many of them have a low tolerance for frustration—but the same kid who gives up after trying a math problem once will watch Super Mario fall into a hole a dozen times and try again a thirteenth time to get it right. As a special education teacher, I work with students who struggle academically. Why is that?

Motivation

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2024

Teachers and students have to take time out to do the screening, in addition to other assessments (state and quarterly/trimester reading and math assessments, plus additional testing for special ed students). 13 Positive effects only show in narrow areas such as alphabetic knowledge in younger students.

Disabilities

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Students in the 21st century enter the classroom armed with a vast array of knowledge just a swipe away on various digital devices. Unfortunately, nationwide scores in math and reading are on the decline—these students often lack the skills to succeed in higher education. Create positive collaborative learning environments.

Lecturing

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 27, 2018

Unless you teach high school math, chemistry, or history and do so using a very traditional approach – it probably isn’t relevant, important, or useful. In my book, there is no greater moral failure for us as professional educators. Let me break it to you ahead of time: these tasks are going to suck. via [link]. I love this so much.

Testing

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? These opposing mindsets created “different psychological worlds” (Dweck, 2008).

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She brings together research done across decades and in various disciplines.

Motivation

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2020

This is a fun team activity to assess student knowledge on a topic. Here are some of my favorites: Math Pickle – put students in a chaotic situation and see how they solve the problem. The Crossing – student attempts to cross a gorge and experiences failure as well as success. Team Challenge. Time required: 1.5

Activities

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

They believe “that people have a set amount of intelligence that is essentially unchangeable,” as contrasted with those who carry a “growth mindset” believing “that intelligence (1) isn’t set in stone and (2) isn’t the main determinant of success or failure.” (pp. She brings together research done across decades and in various disciplines.

Motivation

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 22, 2019

In math, it was even worse — only 41 percent. For example, the third-grade student who loves math and moves effortlessly through the Khan Academy lessons for his grade level is encouraged to continue to the 4th, 5th, even middle school offerings. Grades are awarded but never connote failure. Only then does s/he move on.

Learning

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 24, 2018

They are good at math or they aren’t. These include Habits of Mind , Depth of Knowledge , and Mindfulness. These are well-accepted by parents and educators as fundamental strategies for critical thinking that work not just for math but many problems students face in their lives. They can throw a football well or not.

Critical Thinking

eSchool News

JUNE 5, 2024

Teachers and students have to take time out to do the screening, in addition to other assessments (state and quarterly/trimester reading and math assessments, plus additional testing for special ed students). 13 Positive effects only show in narrow areas such as alphabetic knowledge in younger students.

Disabilities