Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This technological support allows students to learn at their own pace and revisit complex material without feeling anxious or dependent solely on the instructor. This transparency not only improves learning outcomes but also enhances communication between instructors and students. Flipped Classroom 2.0

Critical Thinking 94

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

Cal Matters

JUNE 26, 2025

Why would students write anything themselves, instructors wondered, if a chatbot could do it for them? And as faculty members grapple with what this means for grading, tech companies have proved yet again that there’s money to be made from panic. His professor didn’t dock his grade, but Hurst knows other professors might have.

Plagiarism 118

Plagiarism Assignments Academic Integrity Writing 118

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

And that class, since I started doing that, is a 20 percent improvement in the exam grades. Now I’m going to remember what my instructor said or what I read in the book or the video we watched or whatever it was that corrected my knowledge.” “And that’s been a really powerful way to improve learning.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 14, 2025

This list of 8th grade writing prompts is sure to put pen to paper (or fingers to keyboards!) 10 8th Grade Social-Emotional Writing Prompts Social-emotional learning is a way for students to find their place in the world around them while staying in touch with their own wants and needs. Yes, even math! What would you do?

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Writing Grades Middle School Middle School 52

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led.

Assignments 59

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 59

Faculty Focus

MAY 15, 2025

Download it here: [link] In higher education, we often track student success through grades, credit hours, and retention rates. Inclusive language, representation, and proactive instructor support all contributed to students sense of belonging and trust. Textbook format and cost mattered.

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Disabilities Course Design Lecturing Students 53

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

Instead, it is an educator’s responsibility to design cooperative learning structures that facilitate comfort and collaboration regardless of grade level. A costly misconception is that pedagogical approaches in higher education must be lecture-based and teacher-led.

Assignments 61

Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 61

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

One way to create this boundary is to make it clear to supervisors and students that unless there is a critical emergency, there will be no responses to emails or grading during a set time of hours, such as between 7pm and 7am. Carving out time to rest and recharge helps us return to work in a more rejuvenated state.

eLearning 69

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 69

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Without face-to-face communication, building relationships with peers and instructors becomes challenging, hindering collaboration and support. Something broke in American education these past years.

Hybrid Learning 128

Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 128

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

One way to create this boundary is to make it clear to supervisors and students that unless there is a critical emergency, there will be no responses to emails or grading during a set time of hours, such as between 7pm and 7am. Carving out time to rest and recharge helps us return to work in a more rejuvenated state.

eLearning 67

eLearning Students Assignments Feedback 67

k12

JULY 10, 2025

With the right tools and a little preparedness, you can partner with instructors to create a sense of community as strong as a physical classroom’s. Ready to start increasing engagement in online learning? Digital learning doesn’t have to be isolating.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen.

Teaching 70

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Photo by Louis Bryant III for CalMatters Grade inflation in high school contributed to those pandemic-era gaps, said Lesley Davidson-Boyd, associate vice president of California State University, San Bernardino. Some high school seniors graduated at the time with stellar grades but below-average test scores in math and English, she said.

Math 88

Math English Lecturing High School 88

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

Grades, policies, and standards are employed as tools not just for learning but for controlling behavior and projecting authority. Without the constant need to defend or assert one’s ego (our preferences and aversions), the instructor’s attention can open to what is happening in the room or on the screen.

Teaching 70

Teaching Motivation Learning Outcomes Instructors 70

eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. Grading is time consuming, however, and more grading-related questions are popping up in the news these days. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work?

Grades 269

Grades Teachers Instructors Exams 269

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2021

Low literacy rates in the United States were a problem before the pandemic, with annual measures reporting that nearly 1 million 4th grade students are barely able to read, if at all.

Instructors 321

Instructors Reading Teachers Special Education 321

Edsurge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

With the flexibility that came with pandemic-era school, they’re not used to firm deadlines or strict grading. Johnson, a writing instructor and chair of the writing center at Madison Colleg “It all sort of feels bundled together,” Cohn says. But complaining about students isn’t the answer, Cohn and other teaching experts say.

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Instructors Assignments Textbooks Essay 196

Edsurge

MARCH 19, 2020

The executive director and founder of the journal “ Hybrid Pedagogy ” has spent two decades researching and experimenting with alternatives to traditional methods of assessing students , and he’s concluded that the As, Bs and Cs that instructors mete out can do more harm than good, even under ideal circumstances. Giving each other feedback.

Grades 217

Grades Questions Instructors Motivation 217

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I Many students have begun to realize that they can get good enough grades, and therefore a degree in the end, without having to go to class. Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity.

Instructors 213

Instructors Lecturing Students Textbooks 213

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Since teachers grade so many papers and assignments, many educators see that as an unacceptable level of error. Time-Lapse History Anna Mills, an English instructor at the College of Marin in Oakland, California, has used process tracking in her writing classes. It can create a time-lapse video of the documents creation as well.

Instructors 202

Instructors History English Writing 202

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Seeing as how art has been such a big part of Irish history and culture, I was thinking about something artistic in some way, but how on earth do I grade something creative? Do I grade a student lower if she/he isn't able to write a song or create some kind of representative artistic element? What do I do?

Assignments 191

Assignments Grades History Ethics 191

Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

In his 21 years of teaching, Jesse Stommel says he has never put a grade on a piece of student’s work. What I actually found was I changed my own grading approach significantly in the midst of the pandemic. They offered some variation of pass/fail rather than letter grades, with the objective of cushioning the impact on students’ GPA.

Grades 218

Grades Instructors Evaluation Attention 218

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. As Talbert soon discovered, there’s a whole world of so-called alternative grading systems. Robert Talbert is a math professor, so numbers are his thing.

Grades 198

Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 9, 2024

I didn’t think PDF annotation grading tools would work, not even a little but, so when my colleague, George, introduced them in his online history class, I watched amazed at how seamlessly George could highlight key points, strike through errors, and add personalized feedback on student assignments. x Interested? x Interested?

Assignments 166

Assignments Grades Feedback Evaluation 166

Edsurge

JULY 27, 2023

But pulling off these “assignment makeovers,” as some instructors are calling them, turns out to be challenging, and what works differs significantly depending on the subject matter and type of assignment. Some of those instructors are using tools that attempt to detect text written by bots, such as GPTZero and a new tool by Turnitin.

Instructors 148

Instructors Assignments Writing History 148

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2025

CTE teachers were the most likely of all grades 9-12 public school instructors to be newer to the profession, with 10 percent having less than three years of teaching experience. percent), Before going into teaching, 65.5 percent of public CTE teachers worked in the private sector. percent), Before going into teaching, 65.5

Instructors 286

Instructors Curriculum Grades Testing 286

eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2021

This time of year sees email in boxes filled with information about how to prepare for the next year, reminders that grades are due, and papers await grading. An October 2021 NPR report showed that 80,000 aspiring nurses were turned away from nursing schools due to a lack of adequate nursing instructors.

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Education Instructors Grades Learning 300

eSchool News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Here’s a look at each winner: Winner: John Arthur, 6th Grade Teacher, Meadowlark Elementary School Nominated by: Follett John Arthur was the 2021 Utah Teacher of the Year and one of four finalists for 2021 National Teacher of the Year. In grades 3-5, students completing at least 16 skills had the biggest improvement overall, growing 8.7

Instructors 317

Instructors Achievement Elementary School Elementary School 317

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Our middle school integrated arts instructors faced a different set of challenges, namely due to the rotation of their classes throughout the school year. The platform is adaptable for different schools and grade levels. Teachers had to create their own distribution lists, which weren’t always current.

Communication 332

Communication Middle School Middle School Instructors 332

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2022

AI and ML are being used at every step of the student and educator journey to: Build statistical models of student knowledge, evaluating student achievement and instructor proficiency Streamline recruiting and reduce unconscious bias Create a digital “paper trail” for audit purposes Organize and optimize learning materials, and continually update them (..)

Instructors 258

Instructors Intelligence Evaluation Achievement 258

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

So, then it may influence your academic performance and reflect on your grades.”. In another survey , this one from 2020, more than 80 percent of students said that the thing they missed most in online learning was being able to see and collaborate with other students and their instructors in person.

Testing 300

Testing Exams Students Instructors 300

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

The CoderZ platform provides a research-based, pedagogically-advanced approach to teaching STEM and computer science for grades 3-12. The RoboX curriculum delivers fun and interactive game-based learning that can be student-paced, or instructor led. For more information go to: www.intelitek.com

Game-Based Learning 257

Game-Based Learning Instructors STEM Quizzes 257

Faculty Focus

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

But that advice also applies to online instructors. grade 10 papers). So, if you don’t enjoy grading, get it out of the way first; then you can focus your mental energy on the more enjoyable aspects of online teaching. Monday 9:00–9:45 a.m.: Put the worst first. There are some teaching tasks we love. and others that we hate.

Instructors 104

Instructors Activities Motivation Attention 104

eSchool News

DECEMBER 6, 2024

is a real manufacturing line and training system that gives students hands-on experience with industrial-grade equipment and applications within a school lab environment. system, provide training for the instructors and support the system in the future. The SmartCIM 4.0 Intelitek and Learning Labs, Inc.,

Instructors 267

Instructors Schools Game-Based Learning High School 267

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

The new initiative is designed to address math learning gaps among students in grades 6-9 across the state. Carnegie Learning’s tutoring program provides a perfect combination of high-quality instructional resources with tutor instructors who are certified teachers and passionate about what they do,” said CEO Barry Malkin.

Instructors 243

Instructors Education Math Learning 243

eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2022

Founded by Aadhav Prabu and Akshar Raikanti, The Steam Foundation is a California-based nonprofit with a mission to make STEAM education equally accessible to all students in kindergarten through 12 th grade. To do that, they’ve recruited and trained students from previous camps to become the new instructors.

Accessibility 294

Accessibility Instructors Students Participation 294

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2023

Demand for high-dosage tutoring is growing among students in all grades at Gadsden ISD, led by elementary-age students, who are reaping the benefits of one-on-one and small-group tutoring. A third-grade student expressed delight about their tutor, who is a certified teacher like all Carnegie Learning tutors: “I have the best teacher ever!”

Math 269

Math Instructors Learning Language 269