eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2024

Preoperational stage (2-7 years old) During the preoperational stage, children begin to use language and think symbolically, but their thinking is still intuitive and egocentric. In early childhood education, fostering language development and utilizing play-based learning are essential. Hands-on activities (i.e.,

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Cognitive Development Students Secondary Education Assignments 288

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

Part of what we are teaching kids is to be kind to each other, to be empathetic, and to employ positive social behaviors and language. Group work vs. cooperative learning. Our teachers love the training. When we conduct professional development (PD), we rarely have a teacher who doesn’t give the trainer the highest marks.

Learning 279

Learning Social Studies Participation Group work 279

eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Key points: All students are math language learners, regardless of their home language Fostering metacognition and AI integration for ELLs How to support multilingual learners in STEM For more news on language learners, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Math isnt just about numbers. Its about language, too.

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Math Accessibility English Languages 224

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2019

Approximately one in seven of our students are English language learners. Those TVs—three in each room—are all wired together so that teachers and students can show one example on all three or operate each one individually for small-group work.

Achievement 246

Achievement Students Coaching Math 246

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

This gives students a head start when trying to learn a new language. This is largely thanks to the hard work of organizations like The National Association for Music Education , which puts learners in contact with community music groups. Folks who have a musical education are able to process subtle acoustic differences.

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Education Fairness Participation Skills 297

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2016

Our blended model starts with an engaging digital curriculum, one-to-one instruction, and small-group work. We use a “pull-out” model, so students who need reading intervention leave the traditional classroom during independent work time (or what we call “The Daily 5”) and focus on mastering one to two skills per week.

Blended Learning 189

Blended Learning English Learning Reading 189

eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2025

They have started to design lessons with alternate languages and most resources are customizable. Using Gizmo in partners or groups has really aided in providing students with a voice, confidence, and an eagerness to learn more. They are ready to share their group work with the other students, and their discussions flourish.

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Teachers Learning Science STEM 299

eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

We chanted and danced “Pie-pie-pie” (a Spanish-language twist on “head, shoulders, knees, and toes”) in a giant circle. This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. We spilled out to the parking lot, playing conjugation musical chairs standing on notebook-spots instead of sitting in chairs.

Ethics 270

Ethics Writing History English 270

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Parra , an assistant professor at New Mexico State’s department of curriculum and instruction learning design & technology, says she’s offered her students the opportunity to use their own languages to complete activities. “To Parra also gives her students options for her assignments that go beyond language.

Culture 153

Culture Teaching Syllabus English 153

eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2022

Quintin Shepherd and co-writer Sarah Williamson use their combined decades of experience in the education and corporate spheres to create a unique model for leadership that is anchored by compassion and a powerful new language. This book offers practical advice about how to adopt a new language of leadership.

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Languages Language Group work Reading 130

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Our class management tools foster online collaboration, group work and feedback. Hapara Analytics enables K-12 educational leaders to maximize the impact of their school or district’s G Suite for Education strategy, allowing them to see: who and what is having the biggest impact. who is being left behind.

Student Engagement 161

Student Engagement English Assignments Feedback 161

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Computer science can be added to any core curriculum—math, science, language arts, social studies, history, or even art. This allows English language learners in my LASD classes to safely experiment without worrying about how to communicate at each step. Collaboration and group work is fundamental.

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Science Art Social Studies Languages 168

Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

If classes are too small, say 5-10 students, classroom discussion and group work may be more difficult. We’re putting out fires and not planning for success,” says Jessica Camacho, whose English language learning classes in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, have shot up from her usual 30 to somewhere between 43 and 46 students. “I

Online Learning 218

Online Learning Attention Learning Hybrid Learning 218

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

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.

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Lecturing Active Learning Activities STEM 98

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

But most of those policies don’t address the question of whether educators should tell students how they’re using new generative AI tools, says Pat Yongpradit, chief academic officer for Code.org and the leader of TeachAI , a consortium of several education groups working to develop and share guidance for educators about AI.

Teaching 217

Teaching Education Ethics Instructors 217

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2023

Government Accountability Office found that, for example, teachers found some success mitigating learning declines among English language learners using one-on-one check-ins with students and assigning small-group work in person. And research from the U.S.

Schools 190

Schools Learning English Achievement 190

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

Using the second/third grade pod as an example, Allen explains how two teachers start their morning together with a group of nearly 58 students who work on their own tablet devices. Each student is assigned an individualized learning schedule that involves group work or one-on-one interventions with a teacher.

Grades 164

Grades Elementary School Elementary School Participation 164

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 9, 2018

I’ve used this space for flipped classrooms when I have students do group work in class, like this example from a course on Greek archaeology: Each group of students can work simultaneously on one page, adding content which is marked with a vertical colored stripe and the student’s initials so you can see which student added which content.

Education 126

Education Instructors English Languages 126

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

Their research showed teacher stress levels lower, discipline problems decrease and language arts scores increase when teachers aren’t shouting across the room. This way, spaces would change depending on need — a library, a lab or group working environment.

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Internet Art Learning Spaces Accessibility 144

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Everything about Ray, from his seat choice to his body language in class, indicated that he didn’t want to be noticed. The group “quiz” can be conducted in the classroom or synchronously online utilizing Zoom break-out rooms: the students can speak to one another while taking the quiz, but each student must individually key in their answers.

Distance Learning 218

Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

I do not believe that desks and chairs are most conducive to learning, nor does it mirror what the work-world looks like. Instead, I want my students to be engaged in conversations where they can see their peers’ eyes, learn to read body language, listen, share, and collaborate.

Learning 167

Learning Math Writing Art 167

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Flexible participation options: Allow students to choose how they engage, including online discussion boards, written reflections, video reflections, or in-class individual or group work. Replace accusatory language in syllabi with language that supports student learning.

Plagiarism 122

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 122

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 2, 2025

Language learning, for example, benefits from this kind of adaptability. Those searching for the best AI for language learning can use languatalk.com and enjoy personalized coaching complemented by world-class AI. Pair AI-driven practice with group work, discussions, and hands-on activities. Use AI as a tool.

Critical Thinking 111

Critical Thinking Education Feedback Learning 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

He is a professor of cultural anthropology at Kansas State University whose expertise as a digital storyteller has won him widespread attention for his videos, which have been translated into more than 20 languages, viewed by more than 20 million people and featured at conferences and film festivals around the world.

Learning 162

Learning Students Assignments Participation 162

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That has made the book an unusual bestseller for a title on teaching practice, with more than 200,000 copies sold and editions translated into a dozen languages. So here we have in a thinking classroom: The students standing at the whiteboards in their random groups of three, one marker per group, working on these thinking tasks.

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Teaching Students Writing Curriculum 217

Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2019

“We’re speaking to them in a language they understand,” Gibori says of students, “where even even if you’re ten feet from a tutor, they’d rather interact over their phone.”

Education 134

Education Exams Learning Spaces Group work 134

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2018

But Zearn has effectively carved out a space for themselves with a differentiation-friendly curriculum that mixes digital lessons and in-person, teacher-facilitated lessons and group work. Try to articulate how you can help people in plain, concrete, and descriptive language.

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Evaluation Feedback Reading History 153

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

To ensure inclusivity, I check the lyrics to avoid any offensive language. Small groups work While lecturing is one way to convey information, other methods, like gallery walks, encourage student interaction during the teaching and learning process. I then create a playlist that is diverse and inclusive.

Syllabus 122

Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 122

Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The more we use it, the more it becomes part of their language and what they can incorporate into their classes. As technology integration specialists in our districts, I work with Stefanie and Priscila, but we essentially work on islands most of the time, even more so now than before.

Intelligence 187

Intelligence Education Assignments Middle School 187

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 21, 2025

Flexible participation options: Allow students to choose how they engage, including online discussion boards, written reflections, video reflections, or in-class individual or group work. Replace accusatory language in syllabi with language that supports student learning.

Plagiarism 98

Plagiarism Syllabus Ethics Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

To ensure inclusivity, I check the lyrics to avoid any offensive language. Small groups work While lecturing is one way to convey information, other methods, like gallery walks, encourage student interaction during the teaching and learning process. I then create a playlist that is diverse and inclusive.

Syllabus 111

Syllabus Lecturing Instructors Feedback 111

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 2, 2018

Older students work with more sophisticated robots. Humanoid robots, for example, are ­programmable using drag-and-drop commands or with Python or another programming language. At the end of each table are video screens, allowing students to plug in their computers and display their work. The robots are easy to support.

STEM 146

STEM Schools Students Critical Thinking 146

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

If you have a child who has an auditory disability and you make sure that they have hearing aids, there is a translator, or there is sign language being used, that's only a step in the right direction, because we know that when a classroom of students is talking or when group work is occurring that children can talk over one another and it can be difficult (..)

Learning 168

Learning Disabilities Intelligence Learning Disabilities 168

Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2018

How should both groups work together? And that’s where the problems start to kick in, because hitherto the main focus of these tests has been on language, mathematics and some aspects of science. Sir Ken: You know, I think that’s the first time I’ve ever been compared to a Tiger Mum. I don’t know how to feel about it.

Education 167

Education Testing Culture Math 167

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

or creating of a story in language arts. Enhancing Learning and Engagement through Group Work: Effective Strategies for Educations. Or it could be a larger project such as finding innovative energy solutions for your area. In closing, there are a variety of ways to foster teamwork within the classroom. References Strenghscope.

Assignments 107

Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 107

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

During whole-group instruction, we worked on essay organization, a domain where students scored low across the board. Since it was a small class with fewer than 15 students, I was able to split the time between one-on-one and whole-group work. After a few semesters, clear trends emerged.

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Failure Learning Testing Assignments 108