Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2022

How do we get students to do pre-class work without giving a grade to everything? Instructors first need to consider how we use grades in our teaching—and then explore what kinds of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations exist and persist for our students. And I sometimes delegate some portion of the work to a teaching assistant.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Automated Grading: AI can automate the scoring of assessment tests, homework, essays and other assignments. This saves teachers time, while giving students quicker feedback. Reduced Teacher Workload: AI tutors, virtual teaching assistants and automated admin systems can help reduce teacher workload.

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Education Essay Critical Thinking Intelligence 184

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Streamlines feedback on student work. Although it is most frequently used to create, collect and offer feedback on assignments (which multiple students can work on at once), Google Classroom also has tools like. For lower grade levels, Hooker says Apple Classroom has been a hit. Streamlines feedback on student work.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

These relationships have not only provided practical guidance and feedback on my teaching but have also given me emotional support during difficult times. Hoover, a fellow first-grade teacher who had also moved to Jacksonville for the job. Fortunately, I wasn’t alone. One particularly meaningful relationship was with Ms.

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Culture Motivation Classroom Management Teaching Assistants 202

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Erika, grade 10 math and science teacher Clear Guidelines Pave the Way for Teachers to Embrace Technology More Fully I was able to create lessons with no preparation. It was much faster than if I was making my own teaching tools. Christine, grade 1 teacher Fully leveraging one’s LMS can also help teachers save time.

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Meanwhile, research is also being conducted today to understand how chatbots can be used as teaching assistants. In one study , students were not told which of their teaching assistants were humans and which were robots—and findings suggested students struggled to differentiate the two. (I

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

So Sankar proposed an online system that would be open to everyone in a class , where when any student wrote in asking for help or clarification, all would benefit from the answer posted by the professor or a teaching assistant. So if her goal was to revamp the way professors and students communicate, how does she grade her efforts? “I

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Communication Learning Culture Students 193

Edsurge

JULY 30, 2020

But with SMART Boards in almost every classroom, one-to-one iPad programs in grades 4 through 8 and the district’s investment in Google's ecosystem of classroom tools, digital literacy skills were becoming increasingly crucial for Hauppauge teachers. Why was online PD the right approach for Hauppauge teachers and staff?

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. designing an assessment in addition to grading it). Provide summary-level feedback to the entire class. Re-visit topics or adjust as needed.

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Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 105

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Law: Given that most evaluation forms are filled out at the end of the semester, a lot of students feel like, "Well even if I provide that feedback, it doesn't really benefit ourselves in that scenario." Was the faculty member or any teaching assistant involved or was that all student mediated? Michael Sano: Hi everybody.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 118

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2017

“A lot of you all have been wondering who my professor is, and this is Diana,” says Garcia, introducing her eighth-grade social studies students to her content mentor. She uses the video system to offer comments and feedback to students regularly since she cannot meet them all in person.

Teaching 131

Teaching Social Studies Teaching Assistants Participation 131

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Specifically, JCT outlines that jobs facilitating 1) skill variety, 2) task identity, 3) task significance, 4) autonomy, and 5) feedback will be the most motivating and interesting. designing an assessment in addition to grading it). Provide summary-level feedback to the entire class. Re-visit topics or adjust as needed.

Course Design 94

Course Design Teaching Instructors Motivation 94

eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

This has meant conversations with us about streamlining feedback to teachers and increasing teacher-teacher collaboration. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

Learning 363

Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Second, if we are teaching in digital spaces, the distance between professor and student can become an obstacle to effective communication. And lastly, we should also consider the assumptions we hold about our student audiences—their grade level, motivations, abilities, goals, backgrounds, and more.

Culture 122

Culture Communication Writing Languages 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This instantaneous feedback and support prevents these gaps from snowballing into more considerable challenges. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment.

Intelligence 122

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 122

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The feedback loop, though vital, is time-delayed. This instantaneous feedback and support prevents these gaps from snowballing into more considerable challenges. We might soon see virtual AI teaching assistants that can offer real-time support to students, seamlessly integrating with the classroom environment.

Intelligence 111

Intelligence Ethics Feedback Assignments 111

Faculty Focus

APRIL 20, 2023

Second, if we are teaching in digital spaces, the distance between professor and student can become an obstacle to effective communication. And lastly, we should also consider the assumptions we hold about our student audiences—their grade level, motivations, abilities, goals, backgrounds, and more.

Culture 98

Culture Communication Writing Languages 98

eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

This has meant conversations with us about streamlining feedback to teachers and increasing teacher-teacher collaboration. We’re discussing how to strategically implement video feedback “now” and replicate successful models from other districts. –Adam Geller, Founder and CEO, Edthena.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 294

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

An LMS — Learning Management System — is a digital tool that tracks a wide variety of student-teacher interactions such as homework, grading, sharing of resources, parent communication, assessments, and more. Features include: ability to grade, distribute, and collect assignments and materials. ability to post grades.

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Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 84

Scholarly Teacher

MARCH 6, 2025

How well students know how to complete a lab report relies heavily on the feedback that previous instructors were willing to give to help students improve. Student Buy-In Students piloted the template for several of their lab reports throughout the semester and gave feedback on how to improve it at the end of the semester.

Laboratory 52

Laboratory Instructors Feedback Writing 52

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

LAs also took on tasks such as leading short sections of class, helping with course content design, and grading/providing feedback. Benefits of a comprehensive undergraduate teaching assistant Program. Learning assistants in college mathematics classes: Value for future teachers? Education Sciences, 8 (4), 168.

Learning 98

Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

For instance, introducing an AI teaching assistant like Jill Watson , developed by Georgia Tech, can start in a single course before expanding school-wide. Monitoring and Evaluation Effectiveness Assessment : Regular feedback sessions with stakeholders can help evaluate AI tools impact.

Writing 52

Writing Ethics Schools Intelligence 52

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

She typically teaches mechanical engineering courses with 100 to 150 students. With the help of three or four teaching assistants, she now gives 15-minute-each oral exams between one and three times each semester. You’re on the spot,” he says. It’s like being in a job interview.”

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Exams Essay Instructors Education 215

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. Reflecting on my own self-identification, I had a vague sense it had something to do with Holifield’s Algebra II class, which I took in ninth grade. Like in many other cases, it was born of a feedback loop.

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Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 180

Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

Improving K-12 Education The Graide Network connects middle and high school teachers with graders to help provide feedback on student work. The graders, or “teaching assistants,” are selected and trained to offer “granular, personalized, high-level feedback” for students, reports CRO Liz Nell.

Counselling 113

Counselling Education Special Education Feedback 113

Edsurge

JUNE 7, 2018

Students who want proof of completion and access to all of the resources of the course—including feedback from teaching assistants—must buy a Coursera membership that costs $49 per month. Kian Katanforoosh is the co-creator for the deep learning courses and is listed as the Head Teaching Assistant for all of them. “We

Teaching 132

Teaching Laboratory Textbooks Intelligence 132

Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

Additionally, Shorelight hired local, bilingual teaching assistants to staff its student studios. When a student has a question—whether distributed across five classrooms or remote classrooms organized in their homes—we want that feedback to be immediate to a professor,” Hoehn-Saric says. That’s the psychology built around this.”

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