eSchool News

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Faced with both new and long-existing challenges, teachers are working harder than ever. Even before schools closed in the spring, teachers were already grappling with a crisis in student motivation. Related content: How to make student-teacher communication work. Technology as an effective tool for student motivation.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 3, 2021

In fact, the switch to hybrid and fully virtual learning during the pandemic highlighted how students can become distracted and lose motivation when they are seemingly hiding behind a screen, causing many frustrated parents and teachers to loathe the use of technology in learning. Start giving your students real time feedback.

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Motivation Students Feedback Communication 328

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

Teachers are navigating substitute teacher shortages, COVID protocols, and record numbers of absent students in addition to the normal demands of this job. We need to retain high-quality teachers who enjoy this work and feel energized and fulfilled by it.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

I’ve trained many teachers who use choice boards and ask, “What’s the difference between a choice board and a playlist?” Despite this reality, most learning is teacher-paced, not student-paced. The focus is on the teacher covering content and moving students through lessons on a strict timeline.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Time is a luxury most teachers do not have right now. Could approaching the design, instruction, and facilitation of learning (in class, online, or a combination of the two) with a “would you rather” lens improve student motivation and engagement? That requires less time to prepare for, while still giving students a choice.

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Laboratory Motivation Fairness Participation 543

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

I am concerned about the impact that the imbalances in education have on teacher engagement and job satisfaction. I know firsthand the toll that the imbalances caused by traditional workflows in education can have on a teacher. First, I do not want the teacher to do the lion’s share of the work in the lesson.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

This will be easier to do if school leaders harness the talent on their campuses and create systems that encourage teachers to learn with and from each other. School leaders provide dedicated time in the teachers’ schedules to meet each week. The PLCs are composed of teachers who teach similar grade levels and/or subject areas.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Katie Novak and I guide teachers in creating the time and space to support all parts of the writing process in the classroom. 1 Hard to Motivate After a Long Day at School After spending six to seven hours in a structured, often high-pressure academic environment, students face the additional burden of homework.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 30, 2017

When I spoke at Californa’s Better Together Teachers Summit , I talked about the power of connecting students to an authentic audience online. I emphasized the role technology can play in helping teachers to get more eyes on student work and, as a result, motivate students to do their best work.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

My research made it clear that two of the most significant factors impacting teacher engagement was the depth of our relationships with students and our relationships with our colleagues. Teachers have found it challenging to connect with their students when a screen mediates those interactions. ” I hear this a lot. .

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Key points: Edtech tools can provide an important bridge between teachers and their goals Can artificial intelligence help teachers improve? Schools can also use tech and AI tools to enhance the success of teacher teams and professional learning communities (PLCs). Technology is here to help bridge the gap.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 7, 2023

We believe that successful mentoring and instructional coaching sustains teachers, especially new ones, throughout the year and improves their ability to build strong relationships with students and families. I just ask if I can record for a few minutes so that teachers can see themselves from a different perspective.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 8, 2021

Teachers are frustrated by what they perceive as a lack of focus, engagement, and motivation. When working with teachers and leaders, I define blended learning as active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline. .” “Students don’t work unless I am monitoring them.”

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Blended Learning Metacognitive Skills Learning Motivation 543

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences. Teachers may want to explore using a choice board or hyperdoc format to present information in multiple modalities.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Choice is a powerful motivator. Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments. Elementary teachers may use their board to encourage a deep dive into a holiday, season, or weather pattern.

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Blended Learning Feedback Activities Universal Design 546

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2018

When I lead blended learning workshops or coach teachers implementing blended learning, I get a lot of questions about classroom management. When humans are given the autonomy, especially in a learning environment, it yields higher levels of interest, engagement, and motivation.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 23, 2024

The psychology of motivation: Strategies for engaging students Motivation plays a role not only in people’s choice to get involved in their goals but also in their behavior, persistence, and, ultimately, success. What does motivation entail? Experts in psychology have comprehensively analyzed motivation.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Technology’s effect on teachers Individuals who struggled to use technology have argued that the incorporation of too much technology is one of the reasons for teacher burnout. Fear of technology influences a teacher’s thinking, perhaps thinking that many students have more knowledge of the technology.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 317

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

” This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent assigning points to student work results in improved student performance. Now, when I work with teachers, I encourage them to ask these questions: What is the purpose of this work? Why am I grading this?

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Grades Feedback Assignments Motivation 420

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Every time I lead a blended learning workshop, teachers ask me the same question. It requires a shift in control from teacher to student. Many teachers assume that if they relinquish control to students that classroom will dissolve into chaos. provide positive feedback designed to support instead of control.

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Classroom Management Motivation Blended Learning Feedback 420

eSchool News

JULY 19, 2024

Key points: Solutions to the teacher shortage will require innovative thinking and new practices How are you attracting and retaining teachers of color? Through our district’s “teacher induction program,” we’ve created new and flexible pathways for individuals of all educational and experiential backgrounds to become certified.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Dr. DiTullio was a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and is an esteemed member of both PDK International and the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

These AI-powered assistants serve as perpetually available guides, providing instant feedback, adaptive challenges, and personalised pathways through educational content. Unlike traditional educational models, where feedback loops stretch across days or weeks, virtual tutors close these loops in seconds.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2023

These informal assessments provide information to the teacher about students’ understanding of the material being covered and the skills being introduced. This data allows the teacher to identify where students are struggling, where they are excelling, and where they need additional support.

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Metacognitive Skills Universal Design Blended Learning Evaluation 481

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

candidates at MIT’s Lifelong Kindergarten research group, say it all started with a single piece of feedback: “Just make learning fun.” Scratch projects are also released to everyone on Scratch for feedback, comments or “remixing,” but on CoCo, projects remain within a digital “corridor” curated by an educator.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. This inspired me to incorporate KIBO into my STEM course for pre-service teachers. We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Within HMH’s connected literacy solution, Writable ’s new GenAI capabilities increase the impact teachers can have by engaging more students with targeted feedback and motivating better writing in the moment. This saves valuable time teachers can use to invest in student connections.

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Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

How many hours each week do you spend on creating, sharing, monitoring, evaluating and providing feedback on student activities? One survey found teachers average more than 10 hours weekly on planning and grading , and another study reported that about a third of teachers spend at least 2 hours daily on pre- and post-instruction activities.

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Feedback Motivation Evaluation Education 156

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

Teachers can choose to have a playlist be the sole focus of their work in class for a period of time, or they may weave it into a series of station rotation lessons over time (e.g., I recommend that teachers use a digital document or slide deck. That way, the teacher knows where they are in the playlist each day.

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Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 434

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

As I work with teachers navigating the demands of this moment, I share the lesson I learned early on in my career. A teacher’s value lies not in their expertise but in their ability to connect with learners. I have designed the 4Ps approach to conferencing to guide teachers in running student-centered conferences.

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Blended Learning Communication Coaching Questions 531

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2021

Golden collects the results, which students give anonymously, then studies the feedback and makes a list of all the information she’s received. This practice is called early-term feedback. It’s one of the most effective approaches for changing teacher practices,” Gorman says. “In What should we start doing in this class?

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

Universally designing blended learning presents educators with the opportunity to transition from designing a single experience that is teacher-paced and teacher-led to a more flexible experience that gives the students more control over the pace and path. writing task, performance task, research project).

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 367

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

I want students to know that their teachers are there to support them as they work because learning is a process and everyone needs feedback and help to improve. I want students to be intrinsically motivated to revisit and improve their work because they feel like active agents in the learning process. It is exhausting.

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Blended Learning Feedback Learning Communication 343

eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Charlotte, NC Discovery Education , the creators of indispensable K-12 learning solutions used in classrooms around the world, today announced an exciting new slate of standards-aligned educational content and instructional resources for Back-to-School 2025 that will inspire teachers and engage 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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