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. It needs to be accurate.

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Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 111

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. It needs to be accurate.

Motivation 109

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 109

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. ESL students won’t be able to succeed at school or college if they can’t use the language well enough: Their grades and overall subject knowledge will suffer.

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Writing Skills Essay Languages 286

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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Failure Math Achievement Beliefs 317

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

Instead, technology has allowed students to have almost instant access to different types of information, tools, and more in today’s day and age. At its core, design thinking is a human-centered approach to problem-solving that encourages empathy, innovation, and creativity within students for the purpose of solving real-world problems.

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Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 306

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Highlighting engineering also encourages students to pursue engineering classes and, potentially, engineering career paths. When students become interested in STEM at a young age, their critical thinking, collaboration, creativity, and communication skills have a chance to thrive.

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STEM Learning Tools Critical Thinking Failure 312

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. If only there were a list of surefire strategies, those tricks that always get students and teachers fired up and moving forward. But motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. What to do then?

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

Students, especially in the middle and high school years, have more opportunities than ever to cheat using AI tools, such as writing assistants or even text generators. While AI itself isnt inherently problematic, its use in cheating can hinder students’ learning and development.

Academic Integrity 213

Academic Integrity Failure Culture Students 213

eSchool News

OCTOBER 14, 2016

“Innovation” has become the catchall term for the urge to make up for what our current system lacks; a system that, on balance, is neither delivering an equally high-quality education to all students, nor designed to reliably prepare young people for the modern workforce.

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Schools Motivation Students Failure 257

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.

Gamification 258

Gamification Failure Blended Learning Motivation 258

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Why do we sideline students when it comes to assessment? Self-assessment is a powerful strategy that encourages students to become more invested in their learning journeys. It promotes ownership of learning, motivating students to be more engaged, active participants in their education.

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Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 428

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Inspiring district leaders, classroom teachers, and school staff have found unique and innovative ways to engage students in learning, motivating students to see beyond classroom walls and truly immerse themselves in learning. Data can empower districts to align teaching with student needs.

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Teaching STEM Education Cognitive Development 325

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. If only there were a list of surefire strategies, those tricks that always get students and teachers fired up and moving forward. But motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. What to do then?

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

It is a rural district that serves over 2,000 students on five campuses; 77 percent of the student body qualifies for free/reduced lunch. Biggest challenge: Our school is required to enforce a series of standardized tests every year to assess a student’s achievements and knowledge learned in the grade level.

Essay 204

Essay Failure Writing Students 204

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

mandate it (and at least 12 more states allow it) for students who are not reading proficiently by grade 3. The best way to stop grade retention, whether you live in a state with laws mandating it or not, is to provide students with explicit, phonics-based literacy instruction rooted in the science of reading, beginning in kindergarten.

Failure 278

Failure Schools Motivation Reading 278

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

Failure 98

Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Post-secondary students often have a plan in mind for what they want to achieve during their academic journey. In such situations, it is important for these students to remember that they are not alone and that there are ways to navigate setbacks and still achieve success. 2020; Waltenbury et al., 2018; Walton & Brady, 2020).

Failure 98

Failure Students Achievement Motivation 98

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? At the beginning of my career in Chicago, I taught 7th- and 8th-grade math in a system where students took a test and applied to get into selective high schools. My homework past. Rethinking homework.

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Assignments Failure Math Motivation 270

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. After then giving them a set of problems to solve, they found that students who had a positive view outperformed the children who didn’t.

Failure 276

Failure Beliefs Math Intelligence 276

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. However, not all feedback is created equal; some approaches to feedback can propel students toward growth, while others may hinder their progress. How can educators unlock its power and potential to maximize student growth?

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. So success will require a broader effort to educate parents and students, he argues.

Grades 215

Grades Failure Motivation Science 215

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I typically assign a hefty 20-page final project in my STEM course, but I decided to take a more playful and hands-on approach for this group of students. My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers.

Teaching 278

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 278

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 16, 2016

The latest results are available from the annual Gallup poll of middle and high school students. Over 920,000 students participated last fall. The biggest indictment of our schools is not their failure to raise test scores above some politically-determined line of ‘proficiency.’ Passive acceptance of student boredom.

Failure 53

Failure Testing Schools Participation 53

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Sometimes the details former students recall from class is nothing short of amazing. A few years ago I had a student named Abby in my history class, who had always been in self-contained special education classrooms. One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

Half of the students who walk through the doors of a college or university leave without a degree. Most of those students are bright and energetic, highly capable students—they may even be extra motivated to succeed because of the hurdles they’ve had to overcome just to get into college. But they lack resources.

Failure 152

Failure Students Motivation Communication 152

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2023

It’s no secret that educators and school leaders endure a lot of stress, from managing classroom and school communities to monitoring staff and student morale. In schools, there’s a clear link between educator well-being and the way students experience school. When that stress mounts, negative feelings can shift inward.

Education 206

Education Motivation Failure Attention 206

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In 2022, only 26 percent of all eighth grade students scored proficient or above in mathematics. The lack of access to high-quality math instruction can impact students’ confidence and ability to learn math concepts and perpetuate deficit mindset thinking , especially within the Black community.

Math 213

Math Beliefs Students Failure 213

eSchool News

OCTOBER 8, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is far from over, and that means educators across the globe are still finding inventive and innovative ways to support and teach students in classrooms, during hybrid instruction, and in virtual settings. And we remained confident that our students would continue to make gains with good teaching and Lexia.”.

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eLearning Elementary School Elementary School Learning 259

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

While many of my physics and astrophysics students at Chaparral High School here in Scottsdale Unified School District are already science enthusiasts, I understand how important it is to continue to find new ways to keep them inspired and engaged. Students often learn best by doing and by being active participants in the learning process.

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STEM Science Failure History 286

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

This is a good thing, because it will take motivation from all sides to achieve simpler data connections between systems. Student information systems and automated messages are what I consider to be the first stage in the evolution of parental engagement, or version 1.0. School-to-home communications has evolved through three phases.

Failure 280

Failure Learning Outcomes Communication Activities 280

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Eighteen students crammed themselves into a stuffy classroom assigned for my first-year seminar course on a sunny day in September. These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles.

Motivation 64

Motivation Students Instructors Failure 64

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject. How Did We Get Here?

Art 217

Art Education Multidisciplinary Students 217

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2025

Johnson has her students make her a promise: If they think about dropping the class, they will meet with her first. While many of the students roll their eyes, it may save at least one student a year, says Johnson, who is a writing instructor and head of the writing center at Madison Area Technical College in Wisconsin.

Students 168

Students Math Writing Skills 168

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 3, 2024

In the evolving landscape of online education, post pandemic, it has become increasingly essential to use technology to foster student engagement. Among the many digital tools available, e-portfolios have emerged as a powerful means for enhancing student involvement, motivation, and learning outcomes.

Student Engagement 126

Student Engagement Motivation Students Failure 126

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2018

The term “at risk” is loosely defined and using it as a umbrella descriptor for struggling students is a slippery slope. After three years working with this student population, I can say with confidence that it’s a loaded term and its overuse often causes it to become a self-fulfilling prophecy for kids who can be successful.

Learning 158

Learning Assignments Students Motivation 158

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

In education, a design thinking curriculum immerses students and teachers (i.e., The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., Or even, “How might we create a playground space for disabled students?” the designers) in real-world problem solving.

Failure 168

Failure Teaching Disabilities Curriculum 168

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. One of the activities that this former teacher would do was have the students write a blog and reflect every day. I want my students to write every day. He also helps run.

Failure 162

Failure Motivation Writing Culture 162