eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. If you’re like me, around the third or fourth hour of each day you might begin to question your decisions in the classroom and might even wonder if you have chosen the right career. That did not work for me at all. I finally asked myself what does work.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. If you’re like me, around the third or fourth hour of each day you might begin to question your decisions in the classroom and might even wonder if you have chosen the right career. That did not work for me at all. I finally asked myself what does work.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 286

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2016

She agreed that something should change: Drop-outs and failures were high in the 200-person class—at about 13 percent. But the assistant professor of history at California State University at East Bay wanted something less drastic than giving up on live lectures entirely. The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.

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Teaching Portfolio Teaching Syllabus Peer Review 167

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. Even Keller admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.” But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is your tolerance for failure in education? Jess Mitchell, senior manager of research and design at the Inclusive Design Research Centre , posed the question on Wednesday to a group of around 850 educators, librarians and other open-access enthusiasts at Lumen Learning’s OpenEd conference in Niagara Falls, NY.

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Teaching Failure Teaching Methods Lecturing 123

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

MAY 28, 2024

“After a family discussion, we decided he would repeat Algebra 1 in ninth grade,” Lynem, a journalism lecturer, wrote in CalMatters. The state around her is grappling with similar questions. Not all students are ready for algebra in middle school, and so this can lead to “massive failure rates,” he says.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The average student gets just two of the ten questions right. But failure is the whole point of the exercise. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences. Failure is the point of the exercise,” he says.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2019

As he lectured, he would randomly pick names from the stack to call on students. As teachers, we see it every day: Some students are less likely to raise their hand when they have a question or an answer to provide. Technology has helped me answer those questions. Does it differentiate how students can respond to questions ?

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Discussions Failure Textbooks Lecturing 168

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

We’ve now been able to put this lie to bed that people can actually shop on Facebook and listen to your lecture and take good notes all simultaneously. It’s a great question, and I would say you’d ask the coal miners and the folks in Detroit on the assembly line the same question. What do you think about Lecture Capture.

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Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 143

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

Historically, I approached this lesson through direct instruction, building a presentation to support a lecture. We would go through each element and students would take notes and ask questions before we began reading our first book. For two days I roamed the classroom answering clarifying questions as my students worked.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

My official title is “lecturer,” but that is a far cry from how I teach. I hold conferences through synchronous individual online meetings and I have started using asynchronous communication to gather updates on progress and respond to questions. I am still grappling with these questions.

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Teaching Education Learning Syllabus 163

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. They listen to students as they are teaching, maybe through a backchannel or questions, hear where the lesson plan isn’t working, and adjust as needed. I had a 4th grader once. They are committed to a student’s success.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

For example, when MIT changed its freshman physics class from a model of hundreds of students listening passively to lectures in an auditorium to a model of smaller, interactive classes that emphasized hands-on, collaborative learning, it found that attendance increased and that the failure rate dropped more than 50 percent.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Cognitive Development 105

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

This may seem like an obvious question, but why do games engage kids more than traditional teaching methods that emphasize content? A third reason is the opportunity to experiment with different identities in a safe environment where failure doesn’t matter. Students will go to great lengths to get good at the system.

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Game-Based Learning Teaching Learning Testing 168

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. I’ve started to reframe the question to “what can happen if it does work?”

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 143

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 96

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Choose a System that Checks All Students Asking your class if they have any questions, or even doing a “thumbs up, thumbs down” check on understanding is highly unlikely to help you determine which students need help. Which leads us to the next condition: The question itself has to be a good one.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

Her/his success doesn’t come without lots of failure and mistakes, widgets that sounded good but were too complicated or non-intuitive for a 21st century classroom. What there is is a teacher not afraid to try new ways, test them out in a classroom environment, toss what doesn’t work and share the rest.

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Teachers Failure Learning Styles Lecturing 148

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 18, 2022

In the past, faculty could stand objectively in front of the class and provide didactic information to students via lecture. Students came to the classroom expecting information from a book and verbal lecture covering the content. These barriers, if not addressed, will often lead to academic failure.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 98

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

You can pose a question for a future column here. Jesse Stommel, digital learning fellow and senior lecturer of Digital Studies at University of Mary Washington, shares his rationale for ungrading on his blog: “In short, the act of grading does harm to students and causes teachers unnecessary stress.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

Children are naturally curious and since the Maker Movement supports a “learn by doing” model, its implementation in schools not only introduces students to modern and important technologies, but it also helps to develop their curiosity and question asking as well.

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Education STEM Failure Participation 153

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. Are we part of the problem?”

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

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.”

Study 100

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

To answer this question, I have to examine my own experience with OER and its advocates. Skidmore explains, “For some people, it’s a question of how much time they want to put in their teaching. Failure to do this perpetuates the structural, social, and economic barriers that higher education is (supposedly) called to eradicate.

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 131

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

I felt like a failure. Instead, I wish I had known about restorative questions. I didn’t need to lecture about the anti-Asian history of California. She didn’t apologize. It was like she was just waiting for me to stop talking and send her to the office. I didn’t know what to do, so I sent her to the counselor with a note.

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 162

Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2017

What the majority of students are getting in large, state institutions, even large private institutions, because it doesn't make a lot of sense to have small Gen Ed classes, are large lecture halls. But I would say that the failure of ideals doesn't mean that the ideal is bad or unworkable.

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Gamification Art Beliefs Achievement 116

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. These are questions asked by generations of faculty, understandably looking for quantifiable benchmarks of achievement. Is this enough?

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Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 60

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. These are questions asked by generations of faculty, understandably looking for quantifiable benchmarks of achievement. Is this enough?

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Faculty Development Peer Review Achievement Lecturing 53

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.,

Teaching 52

Teaching Teachers Activities Reading 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Students don't need to have a burning question to come. 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. Now, he polls his classes at the beginning of the week on what type of activity they’d like to do.

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Instructors Failure Questions Communication 194

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2022

That’s one question raised by the work of philosopher Waheed Hussain in his 2020 scholarly paper, “ Pitting People Against Each Other.” But neither’s success depends on the other one's failure. They can celebrate in the other’s successes, lament in the other's failures, because nothing really depends on it. You studied with him.

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Fairness Ethics Failure Lecturing 168

Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2017

He’s co-authored popular books, including Brain Briefs Answers to the Most and Least Pressing Questions About Your Mind. In his writings and podcasting, he’s tackled questions big and small, from commenting on the recent wave of mass shootings—to weighing in on why people like cat videos so much. And the answer to that question is no.

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Teaching Laboratory Motivation Testing 149