Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

AI-enabled systems such as adaptive learning platforms, chatbots, and generative tools like ChatGPT can provide students with on-demand explanations, simulate peer discussions, offer low-stakes quizzes, and give instant feedback. These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance.

Critical Thinking 88

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 88

Teach Hub

APRIL 23, 2025

Use budgeting activities to teach percentageshave students plan a trip with a set budget. Quizzes to review material in a high-energy way. Whether its through learning stations, real-world applications, technology, or a little competition, there are plenty of ways to keep students engagedno matter their grade level.

Math 88

Math Textbooks Quizzes Participation 88

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

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Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Start the year off with foundational lessons based on CCSS from the previous grade (or even the grade below that) to ensure students have the tools they need to succeed. Once reluctant learners know that success is in their control, you’ll find their grades starting to rise.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Polls and Quizzes: Encourage your child to participate in polls or mini quizzes if their online platform offers them. Encourage your child to listen to teacher feedback; if they feel something isn’t working, teach them how to share that respectfully. Why should you learn how to engage your students in online learning?

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

1 plus 1 plus 1 equals 1

JULY 1, 2025

Grades: Grades 4th–12th (levels vary) Approach: Editing-based. Grades: 1st–8th Approach: Traditional workbook style, incremental lessons with exercises. Grades: 1st–4th (Books 1–4) Approach: Classical, scripted, teacher-led lessons with memorization and copywork. GRAMMAR We used Fix It! See a full review I wrote here !

Curriculum 52

Curriculum Teaching Philosophy Quizzes Learning Styles 52

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting the creation of powerful tool suites that can enhance the teaching and learning process, it seems reasonable to identify some ways that teacher assistants can use these tools as well. The nationwide shortage of teachers has caused a similar shortage in the ranks of teacher assistants.

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eSchool News

JUNE 2, 2017

Grading papers is still a daunting teaching duty. An important aspect of starting to use an online learning platform is to consider the type of assignments teachers want to grade. Although teachers can post quizzes, writing assignments, and projects, it is important to evaluate how much time teachers have to learn the system.

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Grades Technology Blended Learning Quizzes 254

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2024

Most tools that teachers have for this purpose are lagging indicators such as tests, quizzes, and homework. By analyzing patterns in students’ grades, attendance, participation, and other behavioral indicators, AI algorithms can predict potential academic risks and learning disabilities.

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Teaching Gamification Feedback Intelligence 322

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Merge, the leader in mixed reality for K-12 education, announced today their new hand-held digital teaching aids are now available for teachers and students worldwide. Setting a new standard, the digital teaching aids will alter the way millions of students learn in 150,000 U.S. Integrated quizzes and classroom management tools.

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Teaching Mobile Devices Science Quizzes 302

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2023

And the way the grading system in education works has long bothered him. That became clear a few years ago, when a particularly bright student in a calculus class Talbert was teaching bombed the first exam. After that, this professor vowed never to use traditional grades on tests again. dissertation defenses we have now.

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Grades Exams Feedback Testing 198

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When I started teaching data science and artificial intelligence in Duke University’s Pratt School of Engineering, I was frustrated by how little insight I actually felt I had into how effective my teaching was, until the end-of-semester final exam grades and student assessments came in. This is where machine learning comes in.

Teaching 213

Teaching Instructors Quizzes Intelligence 213

eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Key points: With the right AI tools, teachers can enhance their classroom instruction Tracking AI in education Enhancing learning through AI and human educators For more on AI in education, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub Teaching is an uphill battle that grows harder and more exacting as the years roll by.

Quizzes 294

Quizzes Lecturing Ethics Exams 294

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Key points: Literacy is critical for students–and elementary years are a pivotal time These online tools help students develop essential literacy skills See related article: How efficacy studies improve literacy instruction For more news on literacy, see eSN’s Innovative Teaching page Fall is the best time of year in Montana.

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Elementary School Elementary School Schools Quizzes 338

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

If you teach online, you know what I mean. The ease with which it differentiates for student needs, focuses on what’s important (which rarely is a due date), and provides much-needed flexibility has changed the way many of us teach our physical classes. Good online instructors are what we always wished teaching would be.

Online Learning 170

Online Learning Teaching Quizzes Learning 170

eSchool News

MAY 20, 2024

How to teach with news and media sources For more news on media literacy, visit eSN’s Digital Learning hub News literacy skills are of paramount importance in today’s world, and are especially key for students, who must be able to critically assess information sources and vet resources effectively.

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Critical Thinking Students Quizzes Evaluation 326

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2016

The winning school will receive a one-year subscription to EasyTech and EasyCode Premium, Learning.com ’s digital literacy and coding curriculum for grades K-8. The Code-a-Thon is a fun and engaging way for teachers to introduce their students to coding concepts without having any prior experience teaching coding.”.

Skills 279

Skills Quizzes Middle School Middle School 279

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

Erin Turnbach,a 2nd grade teacher, piloted Cast in her New Jersey classroom and describes the experience: “One group was researching frogs. Isn’t it perpetuating the ‘sage on the stage’ approach to teaching? Quizzes in Google Forms. That is a great piece of evidence,’ I said. A quiz in Google Forms. Source: Google).

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Quizzes Education Attention History 113

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

One day I had been planning to discuss metacognition—a learning strategy I teach to my middle-school students. I often teach students who react with surprise when they do well in my class. Yet every year I see these same students soar and complete the class with high grades. Abby’s story is hardly unique. That’s where I come in.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2017

We’ve seen educators do incredible things with G Suite for Education tools: creatively teach classroom material, collaborate with students, and design innovative assignments to achieve meaningful outcomes. This year, we’re sending teachers back to school with updates designed to help them do what they do best—teach. Sneak Peak!

Quizzes 198

Quizzes Teachers Mobile Devices Assignments 198

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2021

Yet, Samsung—long the leader in digital displays—believes that education needs smart and sensible solutions that truly transform teaching and learning. Distance learning became the tipping point to see how we can teach differently. We’re beginning to ask what’s possible, how to approach teaching and learning differently.

Teaching 198

Teaching Hybrid Learning Learning Communication 198

eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2017

Creating them, administering them, and grading them are just the beginning. It takes so much effort on the part of the teacher, not to mention all the paper and by-hand grading and recording that has to happen on the teacher’s personal time. Kahoot allows the teacher to build fun quizzes, flashcards and games.

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Quizzes Mobile Devices Essay Assignments 217

eSchool News

JULY 11, 2024

Key points: Students are motivated by academic excellence, personal growth, and development Scaling-up high-dosage tutoring is crucial to students’ academic success 5 ways virtual tutoring reinforces our after-school program For more news on learning trends, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub This press release originally appeared online.

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Quizzes Motivation Languages Language 284

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. Educators are guided through the concepts of teaching computer science and computational thinking as they build their confidence in working with the CoderZ platform.

Game-Based Learning 256

Game-Based Learning Instructors STEM Quizzes 256

eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2023

I was so excited to begin my career teaching kindergarten students who were deaf or hard of hearing. Throughout my 26 years of teaching, I’ve heard similar accounts from other first-year teachers anxious to get their footing in their new roles, but more than anything, they wanted to connect with their students and students’ families.

Teachers 335

Teachers Quizzes Coaching Motivation 335

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 10, 2023

If you are teaching courses online, have you considered that the planning and preparation to teach online is markedly different than teaching in-person? Online teaching preparation is quite different than the traditional in-person course. There were no intermittent due dates throughout the semester.

Quizzes 126

Quizzes Teaching Learning Feedback 126

eSchool News

JULY 15, 2024

AI lacks emotional intelligence, often struggling to engage in empathetic interactions, motivate students during challenging periods, or adapt its teaching style based on emotional cues. Despite these strengths, human educators face several challenges, including scalability issues and variability in teaching quality.

Ethics 314

Ethics Education Learning Quizzes 314

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 4, 2025

Every month, subscribers to our newsletter get a free/discounted resource to help their tech teaching. Between June 4th-6th get two per grade level. Between June 4th-6th get two per grade level. Jacqui Murray has been teaching K-18 technology for 30 years. That’s enough for a team to each have one.

Schools 81

Schools Quizzes Intelligence Grades 81

eSchool News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been around for many years, but the introduction of ChatGPT in November 2022 has generated many discussions of how this technology can impact education – both how students learn and how educators teach. Flexibility: Learning and teaching with technology provides flexibility since it can take place anywhere.

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Collaborative Learning Gamification Teachers Teaching Methods 314

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

After all, so-called MOOCs, or massive open online courses, were meant to open education to as many learners as possible, and in many ways they are more like books (digital ones, packed with videos and interactive quizzes) than courses. We’re counting the crypto-currency tech course.)

Teaching 167

Teaching Lecturing Instructors Quizzes 167

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

That said, our students do need to learn some fundamental skills that AI cannot teach them. The larger problem is that grading overemphasizes students’ final product of learning instead of their process of learning. You can use it to generate quizzes and students can use it to answer the quizzes, so why do we even matter as educators?

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Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 308

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 6, 2022

What is wrong with grades? Instructors and students have different ideas about what grades are supposed to measure: Should they be about how much students have learned? Grades can perpetuate bias , inequalities, and injustice, reduce student motivation and willingness to challenge themselves , and add enormous administrative burdens.

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Grades Instructors Motivation Metacognitive Skills 122

eSchool News

APRIL 30, 2024

As the Educational Technology Coach, I support the classroom teachers I serve by modeling innovative technology strategies, co-planning lessons, co-teaching, curating research and resources, analyzing student usage data, and many other strategies. In 1995, I became the Educational Technology Coach for the Verona Area High School.

Art 329

Art Students Culture Coaching 329

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2019

Games support literacy skills in part because they enable students to play and learn in authentic worlds they care about Karen Schrier, Marist College Another early adopter, Paul Davarsi teaches English and media studies in Toronto, and likes games for many of the same reasons as Fallon.

Reading 167

Reading Game-Based Learning Teaching Quizzes 167

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

Teaching 186

Teaching Instructors Teaching Philosophy Education 186

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

What are some examples of teaching techniques? In K-12 education, employing effective teaching methods and strategies is paramount for engaging students and facilitating meaningful learning experiences across diverse subjects and grade levels. What are the traditional tools of teaching?

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Teaching Textbooks Learning Styles Teaching Methods 130

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

They begin by identifying learning objectives based on the standards they want to teach. 3 One benefit of the teacher-directed instructional model is that teachers get complete control over how the content is taught (they can even video record themselves teaching it). Suppose Ella is working on 9th-grade English as a 10-year-old.

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Quizzes Textbooks Testing Essay 258