Teacher Toms Blog

MAY 22, 2025

Not once had I seen a sign of frustration or failure. I didn't like the feeling of failure the exchange gave me, even as I knew I'd not failed. Every time she tried to crush the tissue like you showed them, the paper came off." I'd not been watching Sarah's production, but only, occasionally, her face and body language.

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Cal Matters

JULY 31, 2025

The Trump administration is suspending hundreds of science research grants at UCLA in response to a Justice Department finding this week that the campus didn’t do enough to halt antisemitism during last year’s pro-Palestine protests. Judge Scarsi even notes this abject failure in his preliminary injunction.”

Failure

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Failure can be a painful experience for anyone, but it is especially tough for teens who are still forming a sense of self. When people experience failure, they often report feelings of embarrassment, shame and depression. But, as many educators know, failure is an essential part of the learning process. Define failure.

Failure

eSchool News

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Want to really promote science to kids so they keep that interest? Here’s the kicker: if they aren’t able to create a working prototype in the allotted time, don’t see that as a failure. Where does the science come in, though? The science comes in by discussing why their prototype works.

Science

eSchool News

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Im in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. It makes me proud to be a science teacher who teaches reading, too. newsletters.

Reading

eSchool News

JUNE 17, 2024

I’m in my fifth year teaching science to fifth and sixth graders, but, like every other teacher at the K-8 charter school where I work, I also teach reading. All I remembered was trying not to sound like an idiot and feeling like a failure. It makes me proud to be a science teacher who teaches reading, too. newsletters.

Science

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

YES draws on more than three decades of research and development by the Museum’s PreK-12 education division, under the leadership of founding director Dr. Christine Cunningham, senior vice president of STEM Learning at the Museum of Science. Each unit challenges students to address a significant real-world problem.

Science

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Computer science has a wider footprint in schools than ever before, but there are differences when it comes to who has access to computer courses and who’s enrolling. Girls, for instance, make up just one-third of high school computer science students nationally. They fail, but they learn something new out of that failure.”

Participation

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2022

You feel like a failure, and you are starting to hate school. One day, your science teacher brings in a Microsoft HoloLens headset. You put on the mixed reality glasses and pick up the science article that the teacher wants you to read. Mixed reality science reading. Imagine you are a struggling reader.

Failure

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

So again, the failure of national leadership is being visited upon school leaders who face this impossible dilemma. We ought to be doing more to ensure that at every school, you have the opportunity to not just get English and math but science and social studies and the arts and computer science and AP classes.

Failure

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

For instance, you could test them with the viral image of the blue dress to teach them about different perspectives, then ask them to ponder the science behind the image. Encourage students to embrace failure as a part of the learning process. This hack is great for promoting independent thinking and increases classroom participation!

STEM

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

And can science unlock secrets of the learning process that can help teachers and professors be more effective in their classrooms? EdSurge: Is teaching an art or a science? We actually wrote a post for our Teaching Center’s blog with that title, “Is teaching an art or a science?” Just how do humans learn? I think it’s both.

Art

eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Even with the Next Generation Science Standard’s emphasis on engineering, there’s still a feeling that in preschool and kindergarten, teachers shouldn’t place as much emphasis on the E in STEM. But younger children can learn and benefit from modified lessons. She focused on six of Cunningham’s eight parameters.

Failure

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. Keep learning relevant It goes without saying that science is all around us.

STEM

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

They will have some amazing successes–and some failures–as they light the way forward and the rest of us endlessly discuss the potential uses and abuses of AI in our classrooms. The same is true–and arguably more important–for students who are less interested in science and STEM fields.

Teaching

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

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. Who Gets Retained?

Failure

eSchool News

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Their time-based nature means that they were, in fact, built to embed failure for the majority. Science and social studies classes could integrate combinations of text, virtual reality, group discussion, and interdisciplinary projects that extend beyond what an individual teacher could sustainably plan for each day.”.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2021

Vernier Software & Technology recently announced science educator Tyson Vrbas of Manhattan Catholic Schools in Manhattan, Kansas as the 2021 Engineering Award winner. The company is committed to teachers and to developing creative ways to teach and learn science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) using hands-on science.

Science

eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2022

Dylan Arena, VP of Learning Science on my team, recently wrote an op-ed on the evolution of the term where he asserts that a modern understanding of personalized learning requires us to know more about our students and use carefully designed technology to accommodate a wide range of student needs from a holistic lens.

Schools

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

When my class, who didn’t see themselves as STEAM teachers, had the freedom to tinker without a fear of failure, they became far more eager (and better equipped) to teach those concepts in their own future classrooms. If you free your pre-service teachers to play, they’re apt to do the same with their students.

Teaching

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2019

For students with anxiety, the fear of the unknown, of potential judgement, and/or of failure is so intense that the solution is often to pull the pendulum as far back in the opposite direction as possible. However, for the ease with which math and science came to him/her, English and history did not.

Failure

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.

Grades

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences , 13 (3), 232-237. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. link] Zhang, J. W., & Chen, S. Self-compassion promotes personal improvement from regret experiences via acceptance.

Failure

Faculty Focus

JULY 23, 2023

Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences , 13 (3), 232-237. link] The post Five Tips for Helping Post-Secondary Students Overcome Failure appeared first on Faculty Focus | Higher Ed Teaching & Learning. link] Zhang, J. W., & Chen, S. Self-compassion promotes personal improvement from regret experiences via acceptance.

Failure

eSchool News

AUGUST 21, 2020

“Now more than ever, students need access to the tools and resources that can help them succeed in their college courses – and for many current and rising college students, ALEKS MathReady is precisely the tool that they need,” said Kathleen McMahon, VP of Portfolio Management for Science, Engineering & Mathematics at McGraw Hill.

Math

eSchool News

DECEMBER 31, 2018

As schools are adopting and using more digital tools, they are looking for solutions that not only consolidate functions to reduce the risks of privacy or security failure, avoid confusion among teachers and parents, and also better connect and engage school communities. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 12, 2018

If you participated in December’s Hour of Code, you may have come to realize the importance of Computer Science to students. Here’s Greg’s informed perspective on this question: Beyond job opportunities, why should all K-12 students learn about computer science? The same applies to computer science.

Science

eSchool News

APRIL 6, 2022

COPENHAGEN and BOSTON – April 6, 2022 – Labster ( www.labster.com ), the world’s leading platform for virtual labs and interactive science, has raised $47 million in additional funding to support massive growth opportunities worldwide. Science education is traditionally so ineffective that 60% of STEM students drop out.

Laboratory

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

The study, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, was meant to show that small behavioral interventions, like asking students in a pre-course survey to describe when and how they planned to fit the required course work into their lives, would significantly improve completion rates in large online classes.

Study

eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on equity, edtech innovation, immersive learning, and the science of reading. I started smiling on the first day and felt like a total failure. Each year, we share our 10 most-read stories. This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on first-year teaching supports.

Teachers

eSchool News

JANUARY 4, 2017

But when we asked educators where they learned the biggest lessons related to education and technology came, they largely told us it came from the classroom, through everyday interaction, failure, and perseverance among the students they see every day. After 10 years of teaching, I was set in my ways on many things.

Failure

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2016

To foster a culture of growth mindset, I combined both explicit and implicit teaching through literature, science and history—and list technologies that I’ve used to push growth mindset even further. Deak ( with corresponding app ) take the science and adapt it to a student-friendly language. A question to kick-off "Mindset Monday."

Science

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

This anxiety can lead students to seek out AI tools as a quick and easy solution to avoid failure or mitigate their stress. How this leads to cheating : When students are under significant stress or pressure, cheating may feel like a way to protect themselves from the potential consequences of failure.

Academic Integrity

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

Computer Science (CS) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) are popping up all over. How do we recruit and retain a diverse student body in elective STEM classes such as computer science and engineering? The media tells us there are STEM career opportunities for students in abundance.

Science

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 16, 2016

Education technology is similarly beset by high-profile failures. We have much to learn from failures, especially in fields where the stakes are high, the regulation heavy and specialized expertise is at a premium. In fact none of the top life sciences investors backed Theranos. We reflect on these failures. All passed.

Failure

Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

In her first few years using design thinking, Catherine Scott, a fifth grade science teacher at Good Shepherd Episcopal School in Dallas felt that implementing the entire process in a lengthy project format was overwhelming. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience. Is It All Worth It?

Failure

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2025

Summer STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics), is a week-long, overnight camp at USNA each year for students currently in the 7th-10th grades. If you like math and science, you are off to a great start. Our summer program will be a great start to your career in science and engineering. News & World Report.

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