eSchool News

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Key points: Focus on what students can do, instead of what they cant Design thinking in the 21st century is an imperative Empathy, adaptability, and real-world readiness: Supporting students in 2025 For more on a growth mindset, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub In the words of Carol Dweck, Becoming is better than being.

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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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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

JUNE 10, 2022

The tools developed for this study draw on principles of behavioral economics, motivation theory and learning cognition theory to help students want to improve and connect with teachers.

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Gamification Failure Blended Learning Motivation 260

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

One teacher learns that the secret to good online teaching is all in the approach. These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. However, John was especially motivated to graduate so that he could get a well-paying job and be able to live on his own.

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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. One of the most amazing shifts I noticed was my students’ response to failure. So what if we make classrooms the game?

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Gamification Game-Based Learning Failure Students 279

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 24, 2015. Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. There is much to be learned about motivation. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. Retention takes away their social group and identifies them for all their peers as not being good enough to advance.

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Failure Schools Motivation Reading 281

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

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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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

The journey begins with empathy work—an opportunity for understanding the needs and motivations of a group of people (i.e., As a result, she adapted her teaching by breaking down the process into smaller projects and activities centered on each phase of the design thinking process. the designers) in real-world problem solving.

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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. In my current push to start teaching more with video, playlists, and GoFormative , I began rethinking about the role of homework.

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Assignments Failure Math Motivation 266

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There will be long-term effects if the methods of teaching creativity are not adjusted, but if educators embrace AI mindfully, there will be long-term benefits. 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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Failure Students Skills Critical Thinking 313

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. I often teach students who react with surprise when they do well in my class. Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. I’m not smart.”

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Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Eyler certainly spends a lot of time thinking about teaching, since his day job is now the director of the Center for Teaching Excellence at Rice University. By offering a guided tour through a variety of theories about human learning, he may just cause you to rethink what teaching even is. Eyler: That is the perennial question.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

What motivates them–what drives them to live in this world? This is great motivation for critical thinking and problem solving. I’ve found throughout my teaching career that the most effective lessons are those with real-world applications. Make failure fun. Who are the characters in your made-up world?

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

This article first appeared in the Teaching Professor on February 24, 2015. Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But motivation doesn’t lend itself to easy answers or surefire solutions. There is much to be learned about motivation. © Magna Publications. All rights reserved.

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Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

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.

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Grades Failure Motivation Science 215

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 29, 2023

The Ask a Tech Teacher crew has come up with a foundational list of tips for teaching coding. Share in comments what your secret techniques are: 6 Tips for Teaching Kids Coding If you were around when the internet first came out, you may have seen how coding was a career for specialized professionals.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Reduces Fear of Failure When students receive feedback that focuses on the process rather than just the end result, they are less likely to fear failure. Process feedback is vital in enhancing student learning by honing their metacognitive skills , guiding their efforts, boosting motivation, and fostering a growth mindset.

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Feedback Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Failure 363

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. EdSurge: First things first. Absolutely.

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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

APRIL 28, 2023

Set Goals With Positive Motivation According to Dr. Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy).

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Education Motivation Failure Attention 207

eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2024

Focus on hands-on learning While taking notes is often needed when introducing and teaching new concepts, it is not necessarily fun. For example, in my astrophysics classes, I’ll start by teaching students about the history of astronomy, how telescopes work, how stars are born, and the origins of the universe.

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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. New players in the education market will focus on models of learning rather than methods of teaching. And now, I believe we are entering a new stage of “one-stop shop” solutions.

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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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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.’ 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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Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

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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Schools Students Motivation Failure 230

Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2016

He teaches 7th grade social studies in Highland Park, Illinois. Hull and fellow teacher, Pete Helfers, started to develop Otus with cofounder Andy Bluhm after establishing a 1:1 computing program and noticing how much time teachers had to spend on technology, instead of teaching. That really motivates me to continue.

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Failure Motivation Writing Culture 161

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

Educators teach, sometimes administer a test, and move students on to the next unit or body of material regardless of their results, effort and understanding of the topic. They stay at a task, learn from the failures, and work until they demonstrate mastery and then move on. If they fail, that’s fine.

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Teaching Failure Feedback Skills 125

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 24, 2023

Here’s an inconvenient truth about inclusive teaching: there are no quick fixes. In other words, we need to take the time to create inclusive learning communities if we’re going to make the most of teaching and learning. It’s inconvenient because faculty are stressed. Who are you to your students? Do they respect you?

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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

Solution: I teach English, so I started using mini-lessons for essay writing to break down skills. Before, students were mostly concerned with getting the work done; now, they are motivated to reflect and improve. Students are taking ownership of their writing and focusing on their improvements, not their failures.

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Essay Failure Writing Students 181

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Our goal is really to help people think differently about teaching and learning,” Niemer says. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. We don’t want you to be a failure.

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Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 166

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? You are so intelligent,” led to decreased motivation to undertake challenging tasks.

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Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

These students appeared motivated to learna direct contrast to the disengagement narrative that permeates todays education circles. Academics demands coupled with the pull of daily life can negatively tip the balance of student outcomes, siphoning away student motivation, according to educational scholar Howard McClusky.

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