Teach Thought

JULY 17, 2025

A math problem, maker project, formal debate, reading test–whatever you’ve modeled for them and then helped them do. Failure is a critical part of learning; just go back to the previous step and ‘help’ them again. What you’re actually ‘letting’ them do depends, of course.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Over the years, I’ve struggled to teach in ways my students would understand. They all worked for a while and then, maybe when the novelty wore off, I was back to the same Bell curve of successes, failures, and those in between. The same could be said of Standards and curricula adopted in my varied teaching gigs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Testing anxiety shows itself in different ways for different students. Some students avoid school on test days, and many suffer from symptoms such as stomachaches or headaches. It’s a common belief that testing anxiety affects only older students, such as those taking high school or college placement exams.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

my students informed me, running over after their latest test. “Is Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

With robots in general, and especially with virtual robots, students are more likely to try stuff without fear of failure because it’s just a robot—or, in our case, it’s just a collection of click-and-drag images. They don’t need a solution from me, and I don’t have to be a robotics or programming expert.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2017

They would do well on timed tests, just acing timed tests. Or, more specifically, it was the way he was teaching. He describes it as a new philosophy of teaching. It isn’t foolproof though, and in a new book Talbert gives a frank look into his classroom experiences, and his tips on how to avoid flipped failure.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

The basic steps of design thinking are empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test (Interaction Design Foundation, 2016). The goal is for students to lead with empathy to identify and define a problem, then develop a realistic solution to that problem that can be tested and refined through feedback. link] Dorland, A. 2016, May 25).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Earlier this week, LEAP Innovations, a Chicago-based nonprofit that promotes personalized learning, culturally relevant teaching and innovation, convened hundreds of Chicago teachers for its sixth annual summit. We still do not have a coherent national approach to rapid-results testing. This year, the event was held fully online.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

In my experience, educators looking to create a STEM-centered classroom can take advantage of five teaching hacks which allow them to manage students while still fostering a growth mindset: Hack 1: Material management The first challenge in a STEM classroom is material management. Above all, remember to have fun.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2021

Teaching is full of fads, big ideas that promise to revolutionize instruction. For this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we’re revising an episode from the summer that looks at a teaching fad from the 1960s and ’70s that has almost vanished from the discussion. Even Keller later admitted it was a failure, calling it a “flash in the pan.”

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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. Theyre encouraged to embrace mistakes, stay motivated, and deepen their understanding of the material.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2020

MIT professor Justin Reich and several colleagues just completed one of the largest-ever research studies exploring teaching techniques in online higher education, involving nearly 250,000 students from nearly every nation on the planet. After all, he and his collaborators did get significant results in their earlier, smaller studies.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

However, as policy makers determine what that flexibility looks like, they should consider the consequences of pausing testing for another year. Invest in remote proctoring : It is likely that hybrid learning is here to stay, and educators may not be able to administer tests in the typical classroom setting.

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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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eSchool News

JANUARY 29, 2019

Test scores, homework completion, and grades have soared and parents who had never visited their student’s classroom now volunteer regularly. Failure is recognized, encouraged, and embraced as essential to learning as we all strive for personal improvement, academic tenacity, and success. Learning is a community experience.

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Edsurge

JULY 31, 2019

From there, designers brainstorm solutions, design a prototype and test their product. 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. If you are doing and experimenting quickly, failure is merely a part of the experience.

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eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well? Some college courses simply provide a curved score for students to lower the failure rate or to stratify student performance. Issues with curved grading methods were especially problematic when remote teaching was enforced during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2018

Lessons from Forward Failures “Most of today’s schools were designed for a different time and purpose. However, innovating schools and actually putting those calls to practice can get messy, and it appeared that one theme throughout the event was about facing and learning from those failures. Many transferred for sure, but many didn’t.”

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

It creates an environment where mistakes are seen not as failures but as opportunities for growth and exploration. We should treat review and practice not as tests of competence or compliance but as stepping stones towards mastery, encouraging a growth mindset in our students.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2015

At Webb, where about 75 percent of students are on free or reduced lunch, sinking test scores and references to a “failing school” led to low morale among parents and staff. “I want to team teach, I want to fill in for teachers, I want to be with those kids. I don’t want to be stuck in an office.”

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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? 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. But why change?

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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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2018

While older students may pause and analyze success and failure in between solutions, younger children tend to move more quickly from one solution to the next. They get to touch, squish, and test the properties of different items. Engineering design process : For early education, this is three steps: explore, create, improve.

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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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eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2019

I like to keep parents in the loop at all times, so each day I send out updates about upcoming tests, attach study guides, or include a monthly calendar with upcoming events. A successful relationship between educators and parents requires this sort of constant communication, whether via phone call, email, or even an in-person conversation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This fall, I will return to the classroom for my second year teaching English at Philadelphia’s Excel Academy South , an accelerated high school experience for students seeking a smaller, more personal setting, intensely focused on elevating social skills, emotional wellness, and academic success. .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

When kids are in a school setting and they read a book and they take a test about the theme of that book and they fail, they feel so devastated inside. They don't see it as a failure. I think that's why STEM is so awesome to have in the classroom because it encourages failure and how to deal with it and how to grow from it.

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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.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Back in the 1960s, an experimental form of teaching made a big splash at colleges. PSI involved having students read through material at their own pace rather than go to lectures, and move on to the next part of the material after they had passed a test on the previous section. But almost as quickly as it emerged, the practice faded.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 3, 2019

And for those who have closely followed the international test, which is delivered to 15-year-olds in developed countries every three years, the top-line results won’t offer many surprises. Compared to the previous test in 2015, the scores stayed flat. The latest PISA scores are out.

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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. Dr. Carolyn Brown, president and co-founder, Foundations in Learning. •

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For years, personalities like Sir Ken Robinson have taken education systems to task for actually testing the creativity out of students. You have to provide physical space, emotional space and time for kids to try things and experience either success or failure. When I was teaching the early years [i.e.,

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Testing Schools Art Feedback 168

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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eSchool News

MARCH 26, 2019

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. When students weren’t passing these tests, their self-confidence was diminished and it affected their willingness and effort during difficult tasks.

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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 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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