Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Their intrinsic motivation to learn what they want to learn can really drive a classroom conversation. They taught Welch that history is made up of “little moments” in people’s lives. history teacher in Pittsburgh.

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eSchool News

JULY 2, 2024

Despite ground-shifting conditions ranging from motivated activism to waves of funding, shifting our schools can seem like an exercise in futility. Its learners receive all of their core academic content—English, history, social studies, and math—through competency-based online courses. The takeaway?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 13, 2020

And one question being asked by pundits and politicos is, how can we motivate young voters to show up at the polls? Young people are already plenty motivated to vote, the authors say, but they don’t always follow through to cast ballots. It's often assumed that young people are not motivated. It’s election season in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

But today we’re talking with someone who has a history of shaking up the narrative when it comes to talking about intelligence. In it, he reflects on the interdisciplinary work he did that led to his theory of multiple intelligences. The education world gets obsessed sometimes with trying to come up with ways to measure smarts.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

That’s where we met Natalie Rusk, one of Scratch’s creators, who is now researching how kids find and sustain the motivation to code. It is clear that the project has become a source of pride and the center’s claim to fame. Rusk with the Scratch cat.

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Interdisciplinary Science Writing History 165

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Using Wakelet, school librarians can work with librarians in their district–or even across the state or country–to draw attention to important resources in the library, offer research tips, and motivate students. Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. As the U.S.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. Is history an important class for todays teenagers, or is it a waste of time? Should high school last until age 20, or stop at age 16?

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High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

AUGUST 27, 2024

The COVID effect has impacted students’ communication, critical thinking, and motivation. These solutions will prioritize the relationship between teacher and student, enabling teachers to serve as motivators and facilitators of student learning, which is critical to student engagement and success.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Similarly, in languagе arts, fostеring critical thinking involvеs еngaging studеnts in discussions about literature that encourage thеm to question thеmеs, charactеr motivations, and thе broadеr implications of thе tеxt.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Studying at a project-based school, Thomas developed a discipline for inquiry, fact-checking and reflection which he tells me: “stopped [him] from being so angry” about the headlines he saw in the movement and motivated him to investigate the facts.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The organization describes its ultimate goal as graduating more students who have fundamental knowledge and skills, collaborate well, think creatively and are motivated to keep learning throughout their lives. In the meantime, the checkered history of school reform did not seem top of mind for students from Coolidge. It was exciting.

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