eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports. This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. newsletters.

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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. If I couldnt figure something out on my own, I had resources at my disposal: office hours, teaching assistants, or discussions with peers.

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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. Then classroom time can be used to fix student misconceptions, with a mix of a short lecture and student activities.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Overall, they implored listeners to move away from using “tech for tech’s sake” and to become intentional adopters of technology that enhances teaching and learning. Focusing on the first module of The Empowered Superintendent Toolkit, 3.0, The instructional team can only be effective when everyone agrees on the non-negotiable goals.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Researchers tapped alternative models of calculus teaching that have shown evidence that they work, according to Kramer. The study, which occurred over three semesters, randomly assigned students to either learning through lectures, the old-school way, or through “active” calculus instruction that emphasizes student engagement.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

This is my first year as a teacher and I’m teaching sixth grade, so both my students and I are new to the school. I teach 12th grade now, but when I was a middle school teacher, I was constantly thinking of ways to reach students. I felt like I spent more time managing behaviors than teaching. newsletters. I’m New Here.

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Teachers Middle School Middle School Failure 289

Edsurge

MAY 18, 2020

At the university where I teach, a number of our students come from a home schooling environment. This is is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. Additionally, I am responsible for leading our faculty development team and teaching classes of my own. You can pose a question for a future column here.

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Teaching Assignments Ethics Grades 199

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2018

What is your tolerance for failure in education? Determining where educators draw the line for failure, whether that’s with students of color, low-income students, immigrant students or some other group, determines educational outcomes and equity opportunities for the future.

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Teaching Failure Teaching Methods Lecturing 123

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

He also ponders whether games can both teach and measure 21st-century skills, considers the barriers to a broader use of GBL in schools and discusses the not-so-mysterious motivational power of Pokemon. Let’s say you are trying to teach your students about how stellar systems work. Dan White's Favorite Teaching Resources.

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Edsurge

APRIL 18, 2018

The concept of gradual release of responsibility is second nature to me when working with students in grades K-12, but in my new role teaching graduate students in an education technology program, I am struggling to model so many of the practices I expect these teachers to use in their own classrooms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2021

The earlier indifference to virtual education was largely the result of having moved up academic ranks as part of the pre-digital generation, following the resistance of many faculty who expressed widespread hostility to online teaching as being a poor alternative to classroom instruction.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But failure is the whole point of the exercise. These, in turn, have earned him a raft of teaching honors, including the Sherwin-Williams Distinguished Teaching Award. One of the failure points of international marketing is human beings’ inability to understand, appreciate, and exploit cultural differences.

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Quizzes Failure Culture Students 167

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. But the phones aren’t the problem.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Professors are still struggling to adapt to the new realities of teaching during a pandemic. That’s the case for Bonni Stachowiak, dean of teaching and learning at Vanguard University and host of the long-running Teaching In Higher Education podcast. EdSurge: What has surprised you most about teaching during this pandemic?

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Failure Feedback Students Exams 149

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. With my fourth graders, I routinely used a popular game called Oregon Trail to teach not only westward expansion but about the problem solving and critical thinking employed by many early Americans. They are knowledgeable.

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Teachers Failure Quizzes Knowledge 141

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2016

And yet, administrations at most community colleges insist on using traditional schooling models to teach a very nontraditional group of students. Before redesign, CSCC had three levels of remedial math courses, with an average drop-failure-withdraw rate as high as 70 percent.

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Lecturing Counselling Failure Textbooks 129

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

One problem with college teaching is that professors see themselves as, well, professing— declaring what they know and believe. That’s not how good teaching works, argues Jose Bowen, president of Goucher College. Years ago Bowen coined the term “teaching naked,” meaning teaching without technology like PowerPoint.

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Coaching Lecturing Teachers Motivation 143

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. Mentoring Works.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Yet she also cites another barrier to broadening access to college-level math: teaching style. Changing Policy—and Pedagogy How might the process of teaching and learning look different if we truly believe every student is highly capable, and if we believe that their success is our responsibility?

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Exams English Math Instructors 174

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Before I became an administrator, I spent 25 years teaching in the classroom. After a while, I started teaching my own PD courses. It’s vital for PD leaders to use hands-on learning, and to facilitate rather than lecture. During that time, I sat through many poorly delivered professional development (PD) classes.

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

I teach four sections of a reading seminar for first time freshman who have low MAP reading scores from eighth grade. We are a one-to-one school district, and some teachers would say our Chromebooks have revolutionized teaching and learning, but working independently on a device isn’t easy for everyone.

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Learning Assignments Students Motivation 161

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Many believe they need to succeed immediately and that any failure they encounter will be devastating. My First Big Risk: Flipping the Script When I became a teacher, I promised myself that I wouldn’t teach from the textbook and bore my students with presentations. Many of my students don’t have this mindset.

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Teachers Textbooks Lecturing Social Studies 143

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

In an era consumed with teaching 21st-century soft skills, are games any good at building critical thinking or collaboration skills? I never want to make claims that games writ-large for any kid—under any circumstances—teach these sort of skills.” minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students.

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Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2023

After fifteen years of teaching technology, chatting with colleagues, and experimenting, I can assure you there is no magic wand. 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. You see it as an opportunity.

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Teachers Failure Learning Styles Lecturing 148

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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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process and can teach valuable lessons.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

Showing up to lectures and completing class assignments are essential ingredients for success in most college courses. Actively reviewing and summarizing lecture notes, textbooks, and supplementary materials will deepen understanding and retention. Mistakes are a natural part of the learning process and can teach valuable lessons.

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Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 95

Faculty Focus

JUNE 15, 2023

The first step for creating a risk-informed adult learner is an environment that facilitates social dialogue between the learner and the lecturer. Creating such an environment is the responsibility of the lecturer who should establish certain parameters for communication. Create a social presence in your class environment.

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Lecturing Instructors Assignments Failure 104

Edsurge

JULY 20, 2017

Most people with “instructional design” in their job title are involved in converting “traditional” written curriculum or in-person teaching into an online course. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching. But listen for the underlying pain points.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2015

Makerspaces energetically ignite children’s brains and stimulate areas of interest and curiosity that they generally are not accessing during time spent in traditional lecture-type environments. Perhaps most importantly, there is no wrong way in a makerspace – failure is seen as just another opportunity to learn.

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Education STEM Failure Participation 153

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

In my early years as a teacher, I would read teaching books desperately looking for bulleted lists and numbered paragraphs. Like many who are now teachers, I succeeded as a student in school, and I approached teaching with the same research-based mindset, implementing all the strategies I could find. I felt like a failure.

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Beliefs Coaching History Attention 162

Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Yet most of the content management and storage solutions are woefully to support teaching and learning. Famous failures abound: Blackberry remained committed to the physical keyboard as its competitors leapfrogged them with smartphones and mobile apps. How can a flipped classroom improve retention for large lectures?

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Mobile Devices Failure Lecturing Instructors 123

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. Mentoring Works.

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Lecturing Instructors Knowledge Failure 98

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. It just helps to have that additional guidance, support and partnering with a student, to help teach them how to manage their time.

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Student Engagement Instructors Hybrid Courses Exams 201

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

People who are interested in the teaching aspect of the job certainly like the notion of sharing materials,” says Skidmore. But staying on top of innovative teaching methods and adopting new course materials is not at the center of every faculty member’s work. The notion is] do enough to be good, but don’t do more than that.”

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Textbooks Instructors Education Peer Review 131

Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. “My The real issue is that the teaching and learning process in class is not engaging students via technology that is an integral part of their lives. But the phones aren’t the problem.

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Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 100

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. But if we only do this check at the very end, after all the teaching is done, and we find that our students haven’t learned the material quite well enough, it’s too late to do anything about it. ” David-Lang says.

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Multiple Choice Questions Culture Questions Grades 125