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

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.

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eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2022

Sessions include focuses on blended learning, curating classroom resources, using augmented reality, project-based learning, building student media literacy, time-saving tech tricks from librarians, using digital tools with students who have special needs, digital problem-solving, and more.

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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. I was able to turn my online lessons into an adventure with a storyline, obstacles, and learning challenges. So what if we make classrooms the game?

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Failure Students 279

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. 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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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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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 103

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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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

This use of AI at school will impact how students learn and use their creativity as innovation, which will be increasingly necessary in the future as even higher-order thinking skills become standard. Failure and criticism can lead to students abandoning their own ideas and relying too heavily on AI to be their brains, so to speak.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Keep reading to discover how this district keeps learning going in the middle of a global pandemic. Nominated by : Lexia Learning. We were using Core5 in just six of our elementary schools prior to the pandemic,” said Dr. Mary Ann Reilly, assistant superintendent for Teaching and Learning. Nominee : Newark Public Schools.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Here’s how schools and districts can help students begin learning to read on track and stay there to avoid retention. Retaining students based solely on their reading achievement is punishing them for a failure in a specific area, but the punishment will not have effects in that area alone, but in the rest of their lives.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Learning a new language is challenging, requiring a student to master four basic skills–listening, reading, speaking, and writing–from scratch. Not only do they learn a language but they also have to deal with other school subjects in it. And it becomes even more challenging for ESL learners.

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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? I felt proud that I could motivate my students to complete the volume of work I assigned. The homework I completed in my youth probably has something to do with me being a hard worker. My homework past.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. Let’s Review the Characteristics of Effective Feedback In an article for ASCD, Grant Wiggins identifies key elements that make feedback particularly effective in enhancing student learning. What is the secret to effective feedback?

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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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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development. When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content.

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eSchool News

MAY 10, 2016

But until recently, noncognitive skills like perseverance and self-motivation sat at the periphery of an education debate centered on the measurement of skills like reading and math. That is beginning to change. Books on noncognitive skills pepper best-seller lists. And we’re already seeing it. In a recent report, 96% of teachers in the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Since the pandemic, more instructors at schools and colleges appear to have embraced “flipped learning ,” the approach of asking students to watch lecture videos before class so that class time can be used for active learning. The study considered 173 studies of flipped learning, as well as 46 previous meta-analyses of the approach.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. 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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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

This essay provides tips which are backed by empirical research to help students who are facing challenges to stay motivated and focused when “Plan A” does not work out as planned. 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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Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. Students go from “I’m not smart” to “I just haven’t learned that.yet.” Enter research.

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Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

The science says kids need to feel free to try things and fail, and that the deepest learning comes when failure happens and the student figures out how to course-correct, Eyler says. And the online gradebooks that instantly alert family members to any low grade have made the downsides of letter grades even worse, he argues.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

Whether it’s through mental coaching, leaning on your team, or reframing the situation as an opportunity to rise to the occasion, pressure becomes a resource for strength and motivation. Learning from adversity: Resilience through setbacks “Each setback has to be a learning lesson,” McNay told me.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. Embracing change with a hands-on approach to STEAM learning With my usual 20-page final project firmly in the rearview mirror, I instead instructed my pre-service teacher students to play and explore. We will learn a lot from this!”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 16, 2016

The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores above some politically-determined line of ‘proficiency.’ Rethinking learning time in Clear Lake. Here are a couple of key charts that I made from the data: . download a larger version of this image ]. . download a larger version of this image ].

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Just how do humans learn? And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? One of the latest people to tackle those questions is Josh Eyler, in a new book called “ How Humans Learn.” I think there’s a real art to that.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

As a developmental psychologist and researcher who studies educator well-being at Committee for Children , a global nonprofit focused on social-emotional learning and development, I’m well-acquainted with the myriad of challenges educators face. Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Below are three ways to create authentic learning experiences that help build students’ interest in STEM fields and keep them engaged throughout the year…and beyond. Focus on hands-on learning While taking notes is often needed when introducing and teaching new concepts, it is not necessarily fun.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In addition to the usual suspects—more augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) apps—a lot of people believe this will be the year that social emotional learning (SEL) and interoperability become part of the mainstream. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The problem is that as an educator, my natural inclination is to provide these students more direct instruction, increased support and even hand-holding at times—but in a society that values individuals who are motivated, persistent self-starters with initiative, that’s not fair. This increased motivation.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Jobs to be done hinges on the fact that consumers “hire” products and services to do a specific job in their lives, and that they are motivated to do so by particular circumstances. And over the years, we’ve also made our best guesses at some of K–12 students’ key jobs, particularly drawing on research on what motivates younger students.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

At Edmentum , we believe that growth mindset goes hand in hand with personalized learning, an increasingly popular approach that aims to put students in control of their own learning. We’ve put a lot of thought into how best to define personalized learning. So, how exactly does personalized learning fit into the equation?

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Failure Learning Achievement Essay 139

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

Otus , which he describes as a student performance platform—a learning management system that also spans classroom management, curriculum, and assessment. My cofounder Pete Helfers and I would frequently meet in our classrooms talking about how we could improve learning for our students, and what our ideal classroom would be.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 161

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

It focuses heavily on rapid prototype solutions and learning from mistakes. The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., Due to the nature of the process, learning outcomes may not be evident at the outset, which can be uncomfortable for some.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

EdSurge recently caught up with White to talk about how game-based learning (GBL) can help children develop the skills that will be essential in their future jobs, and how Minecraft, specifically, has influenced classroom education and the learning game industry. Why is game-based learning so relevant for students today?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

As the new school year gets into full swing, educators are likely to shift their focus from worrying about the depth of learning loss for students as a group, and begin zeroing in on where individual students are at. did, closing school buildings and pivoting to remote learning. Sweden, for the most part, did not close its schools.

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Failure Motivation Assistive Technology Reading 200

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Working in tech and media for the past 20 years, I’ve seen some of these changes firsthand, and one thing has proven consistently true: Engagement is critical when learning new information and mastering new skills. If we’re going to make school relevant to today’s students, we must learn to leverage play in new ways.

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