From the Pond

JULY 12, 2025

Great for Lessons, Centers & Play - Use them during small group work, number of the day activities, or math centers. Engaging Visuals for Kinder & First Grade - Each card includes visual supports like dot arrangements to help students understand quantities, build number sense, and practice subitizing.

Math 52

Math Group work Skills Grades 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 9, 2025

Team-Building High School Icebreaker Activities What better way to break the ice than to have students work together as a team? Guess That Song: Student groups work together to guess a song you play within the first few seconds. 1, 2, 4, L.1,

High School 52

High School High School Questions Activities 52

Jodi Durgin

JULY 13, 2025

These Lucky Charms math activities are perfect for 1st, 2nd and 3rd grade students. It’s great for centers, small group work, early finisher tasks, and whole group instruction. If you need a Lucky Charms sorting mat, graphing activities, or other St. We’ve included several St.

Activities 52

Activities Math Learning Styles Students 52

Teach Hub

MAY 19, 2025

I can show respect during group work by listening and taking turns. This will help you spot which students are getting it and which are not, before its time to grade something. Here are a few ideas that work really well in classrooms. Plus, it helps demystify grading. Consider co-creating rubrics with your class.

Learning Outcomes 78

Learning Outcomes Learning Feedback Essay 78

Edsurge

JULY 17, 2023

Educator Jen Manly, left, and EdSurge reporter Nadia Tamez-Robledo address the audience during a discussion about the challenges students face while doing group work. Why does group work suck so much? The first question I'm gonna answer is the second one, which is, why do people assign group work?

Group work 148

Group work Teachers Students Instructors 148

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

The term “grades” has become almost taboo among some educators in New Hampshire, where seven elementary schools are slowly ditching the word altogether through a program known as. The program—short for “no grades, no grades”—is hallmarked by the schools shifting to a more competency-based assessment structure and removal of grade levels.

Grades 164

Grades Elementary School Elementary School Participation 164

Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2018

Each grade has a designated topic, paving the way for every student to explore and become familiar with a wide variety of career possibilities. Rather than having teachers manage a whole group of 30+ students at once, PBL frees them to break classes into small groups and connect and talk in depth with each group.

Grades 145

Grades Lecturing Assignments Study 145

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

” The truth is I didn’t need to teach my 9th and 10th-grade students what an RSA animated film is or how to create one. Then groups worked together to write a project proposal explaining how they were going to execute this project. Why not let students figure it out?

Learning 420

Learning Students Lecturing Attention 420

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

From their focus on hands-on learning to a lack of district-provided devices in the lower grades, the reasons are both pedagogical and budgetary. The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. Related : The phonics fix?

Grades 325

Grades Reading Group work Activities 325

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The “groups do” allows students to work collaboratively in small groups (in-class, online, or mixed group composed of in-person and online students) to practice a strategy or skill without the teacher’s guidance or support.

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

As a science teacher for grades 1-3, I wanted to create a completely different science lab experience for my young students. It connected to our NGSS work. We started with a pilot for second grade students and then expanded that pilot to include first graders. All students in grades 1-3 currently use TinkRworks for science labs.

Science 309

Science Critical Thinking STEM Textbooks 309

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the early elementary grades, the assumption that PBL is simply too much for young learners can be a frequent roadblock. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. They then work together to combine their stories and create a mini encyclopedia.

Writing 288

Writing Grades Motivation Attention 288

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. How Does This Apply to Group Work?

Group work 64

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 64

eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

Established in 2005, Agora Cyber Charter School is an online public school for Pennsylvania students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is accredited by the Middle States Association. This is especially felt in the 5 th grade science and math classes I teach. Gizmo is an interactive STEM learning experience for grades 3-12.

Teachers 298

Teachers Learning Science STEM 298

Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. How Does This Apply to Group Work?

Group work 59

Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

The pedagogical approach to brings learning to life for students through hands-on engagement that lends itself to both differentiation and personalization, writes Kendall Stallings, a first grade teacher in Baltimore County. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills.

Teaching 314

Teaching STEM Education Learning 314

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But eventually, they started liking how it worked and how it helped them. For some, even their grades improved. Here are a few more ways I’ve adapted technology for my neurodivergent students: Group projects Many students with neurodivergent conditions struggle to connect and communicate with other students.

Students 274

Students Disabilities Group work Special Education 274

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. Common Approach #15: Grading a single project or assignment for all group members Tweak: Learn collaboratively and assess individually.

Group work 52

Group work Assignments Questions Communication 52

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Today we have a range of devices in our classrooms, from tablets in some of the primary grades to laptops in our science classrooms (where more powerful devices are necessary). We had a three-year technology-implementation plan but, because of our staff’s enthusiasm, that plan shortened to just over two years.

Achievement 246

Achievement Students Coaching Math 246

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

I remember my surprise when I walked into first grade for the very first time. The change from kindergarten to first grade was extreme. A space that enables easy movement between individual and group work allows machines to be built, inventions to be launched, games to be programmed, or prototypes to be created.

Learning Spaces 279

Learning Spaces Learning Game-Based Learning Teaching Methods 279

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Designate shared spaces and materials In middle and high school, as students change classrooms and teachers more frequently than in earlier grades, it is easy for them to feel less connected to the physical spaces they occupy, the materials they use briefly, and the teachers they encounter while doing so.

High School 288

High School High School Knowledge Motivation 288

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

For example, an educator may decide to skip a disclosure when they do something like use a chatbot to improve the draft of a text or slide, but they may want to make it clear if they use AI to do something like help grade assignments. As a student, you’re submitting your thing as a grade to be evaluated.The teachers, they know how to do it.

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2023

The results aren’t all that surprising: Schools serving more students experiencing poverty and more students who are racial minorities report that they already had more students behind grade level before COVID-19 struck. Nationwide, 36 percent of students were behind their grade level before the pandemic. What Does the Data Say?

Schools 190

Schools Learning English Achievement 190

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Part of it is that they just were not prepared, I guess, for that many people to say that they wanted to be online,” says Claffey, who teaches third grade. “So In a separate study , Lin used models to determine that students’ final grades began to suffer once class sizes reached 45 students—a number he uses as an upper limit.

Online Learning 218

Online Learning Attention Learning Hybrid Learning 218

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Our blended model starts with an engaging digital curriculum, one-to-one instruction, and small-group work. After we implemented this approach districtwide last year, we saw enormous growth in a majority of our students, especially among struggling or reluctant readers.

Blended Learning 189

Blended Learning English Learning Reading 189

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Reinforce the terms by asking students to draw pictures of them in their notebooks or use them in conversations during group work. With the right strategies and tools, teachers can effectively support MLs while maintaining the rigor of grade-level content and making math more accessible and engaging for all. for years to come.

Math 218

Math Accessibility English Language 218

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Grade 9 Geography was in trouble. Students didn’t like the traditional textbook-and-worksheet-centric course, and their teachers and district staff were concerned that a lack of engagement was translating into lower grades at Canada’s Ottawa Catholic School Board’s (OCSB) high schools. who is being left behind.

Student Engagement 161

Student Engagement English Assignments Feedback 161

eSchool News

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Tavares Perkins , a fourth grade math and science teacher at Classical Studies Magnet Academy in Bridgeport, Connecticut, has been teaching for 12 years and was nominated by the parent of a student. In an inner-city school like mine, opportunities like this don’t come along often.

Math 185

Math Group work Science Teaching 185

Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Group work is a great tool in a STEM teacher’s arsenal, and one of the most important ways that modern teaching is deviating from the traditional lecture (Freeman et al., Unfortunately, managing group work as a teacher is a honed skill that requires time, practice, and initially involves some risk.

Lecturing 98

Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For example, each semester I assign students an individual “creative project” worth a good amount of their overall grade. This allows students great control over their project (worth 10% of their course grade), and it allows them to incorporate their interests into a subject that can often be viewed as a ‘dry’.

Exams 116

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 116

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

This model is similar to the center rotations that already occur in many elementary classrooms, in which students rotate through stations in small groups, working both independently and with the teacher. However, encouraging students to take ownership for their group members is difficult.

Metacognitive Skills 166

Metacognitive Skills Learning Assignments Group work 166

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

And for the first half of his 9th grade year, he did enough to pass, earning Cs and Ds. The day grades were due, I pulled Ray aside at the end of the class and lauded his accomplishments. And if the Quiz is auto-graded, students will receive immediate feedback on their performance. Thanks, Mrs. Baker.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Digital platforms facilitate group work, enabling students to communicate and share ideas seamlessly, whether in-person or remotely. Tools for grading, attendance tracking, and lesson planning streamline administrative tasks, allowing teachers to focus more on instruction and student interaction.

Technology 130

Technology Critical Thinking Learning Styles Attention 130

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

They don’t want to fail publicly; they are very concerned about their grades, and some are concerned with privacy.” When they don’t get that experience because they are forced to do group work and interact with peers (who they do not view as subject-matter experts), they don’t feel like they are learning. “I

Lecturing 155

Lecturing Course Evaluations Students History 155

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

For example, each semester I assign students an individual “creative project” worth a good amount of their overall grade. This allows students great control over their project (worth 10% of their course grade), and it allows them to incorporate their interests into a subject that can often be viewed as a ‘dry’.

Exams 111

Exams Syllabus Group work Assignments 111

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

CA Group is a consulting firm dedicated to improving education for students in grades K-12. The firm works with schools and districts in addition to businesses, foundations and nonprofit organizations to support school design and replication of successful school models. Stay tuned! -

Blended Learning 116

Blended Learning Schools Group work Evaluation 116

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Over the years I tried more classwork, less classwork, having students take notes, not having students take notes, working in groups, working alone, more homework, no homework, less homework, extra help sessions and everything in between. I also stopped including a grade in any of the feedback that I give to students.

Teachers 151

Teachers Feedback Math Assignments 151