Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

It is rather the result of unhampered participation in a meaningful society." The failures of school are taken by most people as proof that education is very costly, very complex, always arcane, and frequently impossible task." It's not always joyful, of course, but the learning is always self-motivated.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2025

In a TEDx talk titled The Super Mario Effect–Tricking Your Brain into Learning More , Mark Rober highlighted how video games like Super Mario can motivate people to achieve their goals by viewing failures as learning opportunities. When done effectively, gamified learning can motivate even the most reluctant readers.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education. It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. The beauty of self-assessment lies in the empowerment it provides learners.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sustaining that interest is important, too, particularly because girls and underrepresented minority groups quickly lose interest in STEM learning–and never regain motivation to pursue it. This motivates students to tackle more difficult challenges.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 30, 2023

Not to mention their further education when the time comes to write dissertations and other research papers: Afraid of poor grades and stipend loss, ESL students get tempted to plagiarize from others or use writing services from third parties to prevent failures and get the desired diploma.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Students often learn best by doing and by being active participants in the learning process. Ironically, students seem to enjoy the failures even more than the successes.). This keeps them motivated and having fun, while they continue to learn and explore. Gamified learning is another way to increase engagement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure. Gameful Design. That is a key part of this.”

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

Earlier this summer, I traveled to Dallas to participate in a training on design thinking led by staff from Stanford University’s Hasso Plattner Institute of Design , better known as the d.school, which pioneered the approach. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. the end users).

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

At the same time, employers struggle to fill open positions for jobs that require more education than a high school diploma but less than a four-year college degree This paradox is the result of a market failure: Our education and training systems are increasingly both out of touch with employers’ needs and out of reach for young adults.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

I do not hold to the essentialist thinking that puts teachers into categories of “will participate in professional development” and “will not participate in professional development,” but rather, I follow the context principle as discussed in Todd Rose’s “The End of Average.” When I talk to teachers, I often ask, “What makes you tired?”

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. What Does This Mean for Today’s Students?

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Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

And the motivation for institutional change is student needs. So when we talk about innovation, why are students missing as active participants in the conversation? When we talk about innovation, why are students missing as active participants in the conversation? The consensus? Innovation is the solution.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

When both teachers and students participate the same way they would in a face-to-face setting, amazing things happen in the online world—just as often as they do in the traditional classroom. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

They dont know how to ask for help, struggle to complete homework and rarely participate in class. She says that many students, especially if theyre the first in their family to attend college, dont know what a writing center is and even if they do, they believe getting help is a sign of failure.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

By establishing specific academic targets, students can maintain focus and motivation in their courses and throughout their college journey. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. List of ingredients 1.Clear

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

By establishing specific academic targets, students can maintain focus and motivation in their courses and throughout their college journey. Active learning: Engage in active learning techniques such as participating in class discussions, asking questions, and seeking clarification on challenging topics. List of ingredients 1.Clear

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

We all understood the consequences of failure and how each of us could contribute to our organization’s success. One Australian participant who had previously attended an in-person training said this virtual format kept a sense of community and that the experience rivaled, if not exceeded, the physical format. Our employees are adults.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

More than anything else, people who participated said, “This was the most useful PD class I have ever taken.” The added benefit to this is that teachers are more likely to understand student frustrations and thus be more inclined to adjust their own grading to judge improvement rather than failure as a final endpoint.

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Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

They are driven, motivated and informed. Encouraging diverse participation in STEM in middle school is crucial. For your students who don’t typically identify as “engineers”—many female and minority students as well as some boys—what motivates them to sign up for, and become invested in, an engineering class or activity?

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

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Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

This helps our teachers strengthen their practices and participate in ongoing, reflective coaching at their own pace. The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. The excitement comes from the possibility of both success and failure.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

It started last summer, when I participated in Adjacent Academies , a new experiential learning program for college students that combines technical skills training with liberal arts. Be intentional and nurture relationships with motivated friends and professionals who support your goals but who are also constructively critical.

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2022

But declining student participation may also stem from the challenges inherent to remote and hybrid learning. It’s often said that online courses offer students increased flexibility—supposedly a positive quality.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

They motivate and guide their students to accomplish their goals. Since we’ve discovered that teaching is mostly about motivation, that matters because for faculty, motivation was usually not the primary problem. We came to class prepared, we liked to participate. What is it that motivates you? This is fantastic.”

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 15, 2025

In the traditional learning environment, student engagement levels varied, and educators could easily gauge participation where, in online platforms, the lack of physical presence and direct interaction makes it difficult to assess student engagement. Therefore, it is evident that online learning presents a unique set of challenges.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

They also tend to report greater collaboration skills, greater feelings of belongingness, higher levels of academic engagement, greater motivation to learn, and higher levels of self-efficacy. That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

However, school leaders Sarah Pedrotti and Jessica Torres are on a mission to flip the failure narrative and rebrand their school by motivating their teachers through personalized professional development. Teachers have participated in chats specific to their discipline.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Educational researchers very often do not have a strong motivation, having made a discovery, to take the next step and put it in a form that will diffuse.” Stevens, an associate professor there, said he will be a participant as part of his project at Stanford on Responsible Use of Student Data in Higher Education.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2017

For example, research in educational psychology often is characterized by efforts to investigate isolated interventions, in carefully controlled laboratory conditions, under short time frames, using motivated participants and focusing on learning outcomes like retention. We believe this to be an astounding moral failure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

Knowing that their work could potentially be seen by others beyond our school community raised the bar for my students in motivation and execution. In connection with the internship, all students participate in an Integrative Seminar where we explore connections between their internships and coursework. It's not a one-way street.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

But their praises were also minced with a bit of visible surprise or even confusion about my motivation or interest in open education issues. A faculty member like me, who is non- tenure or holds a teaching-intensive role, might have an easier time to participate in critical open education discussions.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

These meetings deprived the participants of the personal, physical presence associated with talking with someone. Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 2, 2023

These meetings deprived the participants of the personal, physical presence associated with talking with someone. Students are required to work with me if they are on probation due to a course failure, and they are recommended to see me if they fail an exam or are deemed to be at risk for failure.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 30, 2023

It increases student engagement when instructors motivate students to participate more actively in class. Ramifications of not re-doing assignments Motivation to put in extra effort diminishes leading to a decline in overall engagement and enthusiasm. It develops critical thinking skills.

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Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. Item(s) Anticipated date(s) of completion How do you feel about your participation during class? In my mind, the purpose of learning was to get good grades. Is there anything remaining uncompleted?

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