eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

The CoderZ professional development program introduces instructors to the concepts of teaching computer science and computational thinking using an online tool. The CoderZ professional development program has received a lot of positive feedback from teachers who have taken it.

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Science Teachers Evaluation STEM 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

But it really kicks in during middle school. What we find in our middle schools is that students are starting to develop their own voices as writers,” Cotton says. We provide training so they all have a good sense of how to evaluate writing and provide feedback to students.” And useful feedback is crucial.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

Then, by sharing their music online and enlisting feedback, they connect with their peers in a meaningful way. Just as important, they’re building relationships essential to navigate those influential middle-school and high-school years. Taylor Haun is a music instructor at Lake Travis STEM Academy in Austin, Texas.

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Mobile Devices STEM Disabilities Motivation 167

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2018

The California charter network Navigator Schools and the private Cristo Rey San Jose Jesuit High School used an approach known informally as “deep coaching” where teachers were observed daily and provided with feedback on a weekly basis to help bake teacher growth into the overall culture.

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Teachers Coaching Mental Models Culture 160

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2018

“A skilled teacher can re-direct instruction based on feedback that they are receiving from their students throughout the flow of a lesson,” writes Alexis Roesser, an English teacher and department chair at Salamanca High School in New York. What Are Summative Assessments Vs. Formative Assessments.

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Quizzes Students Elementary School Elementary School 159

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Even the best instructors may not be able to reach every student. To get started, what are some of the channels that currently exist, if any, for students to interact with their faculty or instructors around teaching and curriculum? So, [the instructor] was able to see just about everything we did.

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Teaching Course Evaluations Evaluation Students 121

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

When you get close enough to the heart, you can feel it beating in your hand through phone vibrations (known as haptic feedback). My children are now on regular video chats, as is my husband, a middle school science teacher. The instructor supports you in getting the best workout through encouragement, reminders and guidance.

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Activities Mobile Devices Multiple Choice Questions Motivation 187

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI-powered assistants can also provide valuable feedback on student work, helping them improve their skills and knowledge (Xia et al., Goal : To analyze student feedback from student reflections from the semester Prompt: Summarize these responses, and show patterns. Next, paste the copied selection of responses after the above prompt.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 135

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

The network began the Greenfield Schools design project to research what the future of school could be, with the goal of opening two new schools in 2015—an elementary school and a middle school. The first Greenfield Schools launched in August 2015 in New Haven, CT.

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Education Schools Middle School Middle School 128

Edsurge

JULY 12, 2017

Douglas Moore In 2010, Tesoriero and her colleague Amanda Solarsh, a middle school science teacher, stumbled across an opportunity to write curriculum at NYSCI. They were immediately taken with the museum’s learning model and wanted to incorporate elements of it into their classrooms at Simon Baruch Middle School 104.

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Science Learning Schools Gamification 145

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 1, 2023

AI-powered assistants can also provide valuable feedback on student work, helping them improve their skills and knowledge (Xia et al., Goal : To analyze student feedback from student reflections from the semester Prompt: Summarize these responses, and show patterns. Next, paste the copied selection of responses after the above prompt.

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Communication Ethics Intelligence Learning 111

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

Leaders in education now have the opportunity to leverage GenAI to accelerate the transformation of data into feedback for students across subjects. This new age of teaching and learning will be more integrated into the day-to-day, more interdisciplinary, and more based on the lived experience of the teacher and student.

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Schools Coaching STEM Evaluation 338

Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

Learning Assistantships in Community Colleges Learning assistants (LAs) are undergraduate students who engage as classroom support for faculty instructors in college courses (Ellerbrock et al., LAs also took on tasks such as leading short sections of class, helping with course content design, and grading/providing feedback.

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Learning Instructors Math STEM 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 18, 2016

Freemium — FreshGrade —Written by James , a Middle School teacher in British Columbia, Canada. EdSurge: What was the problem in your classroom or school that you were trying to solve when you implemented FreshGrade? It has been an excellent overall experience with great feedback from students and parents.

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Teachers English Assignments Middle School 62

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 25, 2018

The feedback I often get on these sorts of sites is that students do improve speed and accuracy but only on the site. Type to Learn –fee, aligned between home and school. Typing Instructor –complete online program (fee). These include: QwertyTown –fee-based, well done. Type Kids –graduated program of touch typing.

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Quizzes Essay Grades Knowledge 90

Elevate k12

JUNE 21, 2024

From elementary school through middle school and on to high school, in wealthy and poor school districts, full-time, part-time, and substitute teachers are in short supply. In the last few years, instability in schools has been linked to falling test scores and increased emotional needs from students.

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k12 Online Schools

MAY 9, 2025

Whether its board games, video games, or made-up playground challenges, they engage deeply with anything that has goals, rewards, and feedback. Why It Works Gamification works because it introduces immediate feedback and visible progress, two elements that keep learners engaged. This creates a natural sense of progression.

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Schools Motivation Gamification Essay 52

Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

CEO Lindsey Tropf says the company has plans to expand beyond its middle-school ecology content, and is pitching for a $3 million seed fund to do so. report cards have by and large stayed the same over the last century—there’s not always good feedback, and it’s too late once bad grades get in. But entrepreneurs behind Comprend.io

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Education Mobile Devices History Game-Based Learning 152

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Like in many other cases, it was born of a feedback loop. In early middle school, by the time my parents struggled to assist with math homework, I began to compare myself to my maternal grandfather, Aladin Perkins, a retired electrical engineer who had little patience for dullards. She describes herself as a “math brain.”

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Math Beliefs Teaching Assistants Culture 186

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

–Tiago Costa, Cloud & AI Architect, Microsoft; Pearson Video Lesson Instructor In the two years since GenAI was unleashed, K-12 leaders have ridden the wave of experimentation and uncertainty about the role this transformative technology should have in classrooms and districts.

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Communication Skills Reading Science 356

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

The use of video observation to provide feedback and support to teacher candidates is an ed tech trend that will experience significant growth in 2017. Rebekah Ralph is the instructor of educational technology and edTPA coordinator at LaGrange College Department of Education (GA). Video Observation for Teacher PD.

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