Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The teacher has to do the lion’s share of the work compiling a list of items to include on the study guide or creating questions for a game. questions that the teacher can use to create a variety of review activities. Then the teacher can review the questions and answers, selecting the best ones to include in future Kahoot!

Blended Learning 522

Blended Learning Students Exams Study 522

eSchool News

JULY 4, 2024

Though classrooms are closed, these TED-Ed Lessons explore a bit of the nation’s history when it comes to Independence Day. Once you find the video you want to use, you can use the TED-Ed Lessons editor to add questions, discussion prompts, and additional resources. Why do Americans vote on Tuesdays ?

History 143

History Social Studies Questions Writing 143

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Answering those questions creates clarity about what teachers and students are working toward, making it easier to design a rubric to measure progress toward those learning objectives. Teachers do not need to write lengthy comments on student work to justify a grade.

Fairness 545

Fairness Assignments Feedback Evaluation 545

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

What do you remember from history class? To history teacher Joe Welch, too many of today’s lessons still call to mind Ben Stein’s classic classroom lecture in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” schools are not well-known for teaching students history and getting them to remember it. I think you feel a little more connection.

History 167

History Students Textbooks Testing 167

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

If the teacher wants to use games to learn history, Minecraft won’t throw students into a fully fleshed simulation of the American Revolution. It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. How students answer this question is always interesting.

Writing 199

Writing Reading Teaching Evaluation 199

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2022

As a former high school teacher and current content author for AP History and Social Sciences, I’ve learned several key strategies to help your students earn the AP scores they need to assist them in their academic careers—and retain the material that they have learned.

Exams 319

Exams Essay Testing History 319

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The new tool provides a semi-proctored environment for organizing research and writing in an AI-enabled environment. Composer is a new tool that allows PowerNotes+ users to see the full picture of writers’ research and writing, from AI-assisted text to outside sources to original thoughts, all color-coded for easy identification. “AI

Writing 164

Writing Ethics Plagiarism Academic Integrity 164

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Making sure the approach to reading and writing across materials created by a bunch of different people is hard. Along the way, there is a heavy focus on writing. Finding time to do that work is even harder.

History 144

History Writing Social Studies Peer Review 144

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

High schoolers write a lot every school day. How can you help them improve their writing skills and have fun at the same time? Thats where daily writing prompts come in! Write a thank-you note to someone in your life. Have students write to the prompt before class begins. Do you like watching sports live or on TV?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. Helping students uncover their passions I once had a student who insisted on writing her research paper on body piercings.

Reading 327

Reading Assignments English Math 327

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 16, 2023

This post will introduce you to some quick tips for writing a research paper along with the importance of samples. Simple Steps for Research Paper Writing and the Importance of Samples Research papers are academic writings that offer rigorous analysis, evaluation, assessment, and interpretation of a specific topic.

Writing 158

Writing Essay Plagiarism Study 158

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

In contrast, medical school can overwhelm students with detailed information, like longitudinal reports on multiple-choice question performance throughout the year. This raises an essential question: What kind of feedback information is genuinely useful for students?

Multiple Choice Questions 276

Multiple Choice Questions Feedback Students History 276

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

When I was in college, I started writing a holiday newsletter to include with my Christmas cards. As I began to write, I realized that 2020 for me was a year of extremes. We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses. Every person is different.

Learning 544

Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2022

In 2021, as part of this work, EdSurge launched its first-ever educator writing fellowship and we welcomed seven amazing fellows who, over the course of the year, penned deeply personal essays highlighting the myriad issues educators, school leaders, and learners faced in the midst of the pandemic and political unrest in society.

Writing 156

Writing Education Essay Ethics 156

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Tandem Tales: Have students begin writing a story. You can even design the story around a subject that your students are studying, such as hurricanes, animal habitats, or an era of history. Use these curiosity prompts as a kind of, “question of the day.”

Critical Thinking 344

Critical Thinking Plagiarism Students Writing 344

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? It was a maddening moment of clarity for me.

Assignments 205

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 205

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

As an assistant principal in a public school in Manhattan, I have begun to use explicit instruction more in my own teaching and have focused on explicit instruction in my professional development with the history and physical education teachers I supervise. They needed modeling, practice, and feedback.

Students 281

Students History Feedback Physical Education 281

eSchool News

MARCH 17, 2023

A Brief History Educating our youth has been an American priority since our country’s beginnings. Focused on the basic skills of “the three Rs” (reading, writing, and ‘rithmetic), American education in the 1700s and 1800s generally concluded by age 12 or 13 and often excluded girls, minorities, and lower socioeconomic classes altogether.

Critical Thinking 291

Critical Thinking Ethics Disabilities Education 291

eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2024

While 89 percent of teachers reported in a recent survey that they believe generative AI will have an impact on teaching, recent reporting in the Wall Street Journal and The74 have rightly identified some of AI’s limitations in education, questioning the technology’s ability to serve as, for example, an effective tutor.

Teaching 327

Teaching Essay Teaching Methods Intelligence 327

Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

Dear Bonni, I'll be teaching a course on the history of Ireland later this year. 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? What do I do? I feel weird about testing them on genocide.”

Assignments 196

Assignments Grades History Ethics 196

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The idea is the main component in argument forming, and actively learn teaches students how to communicate by asking and answering questions. Actively Learn is an online interactive platform where students learn through “layers”–the discussion questions that structure readings. Engaging the Reading.

Art 226

Art Languages Language Plagiarism 226

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2024

Several of the faculty pushed back, saying it is essential for student teachers to write those lesson plans. Two key tools educators have been using for decades are Bloom’s Taxonomy and Costa’s Levels of Questioning. For instance, creating a state report showing its capital and basic history would be simple for Claude.ai.

Evaluation 286

Evaluation Quizzes Ethics Knowledge 286

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yet there is another additional skill that is often overlooked in the implementation of case studies—the opportunity to develop questioning skills. Questions are essential components of case studies. Tucked neatly at the end are a list of discussion questions that faculty can use to debrief or unpack the case.

Questions 105

Questions Study Skills Evaluation 105

eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Your history teacher wants you to write about the Gettysburg Address: Why not have ChatGPT give you some of the main points? This has been a common question I have heard when doing AI workshops with teachers across the country. This is the most important question we should be asking ourselves: Why do we matter?

Quizzes 311

Quizzes Learning Testing Intelligence 311

Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

As of 2022, 38 states required a semester of civics education in high school; that same year, the federal government increased spending on “American History and Civics” fourfold. These are all great steps in the right direction, but I believe there is still a lack of respect for the importance of history and civics education.

History 198

History Education Social Studies Essay 198

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Understanding context in texts and conversations AI can summarize a passage or analyze a text, but it often misses the deeper meaning, tone, and cultural nuance, especially in literature and history. This is especially concerning in education, where critical thinking and contextual understanding are essential.

Intelligence 286

Intelligence Education Language Languages 286

Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2024

Heath posed a question that I can’t seem to shake. Mishra and Heath admit they don’t have the answer, but say they think it’s an important question for educators and scholars to consider. Postman explained the importance of memory in a culture without writing, but how in a culture with writing, memory is considered a waste of time.

Teachers 218

Teachers Essay Writing Culture 218

Faculty Focus

MAY 9, 2024

Keeping the UC San Diego academic honesty policy in mind, consider the following: A student prompted Gemini to rewrite their text to improve the quality of their writing and submitted the AI-generated version of their text. A student used ChatGPT to write their conclusion word-for-word, but they cited ChatGPT as a source.

Academic Integrity 137

Academic Integrity Writing Syllabus Exams 137

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2021

history in a traditional public rural high school and now in a public alternative school, I have learned that the most effective strategies for providing an authentic civics learning experience are rooted in knowledge and require learners to simulate a real-life phenomenon. history and civics for the first time as upperclassmen.

History 217

History Social Studies Education Knowledge 217

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Yet there is another additional skill that is often overlooked in the implementation of case studies—the opportunity to develop questioning skills. Questions are essential components of case studies. Tucked neatly at the end are a list of discussion questions that faculty can use to debrief or unpack the case.

Questions 97

Questions Study Skills Evaluation 97

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

History of Groundhog Day –from History.com. One will be oriented around geography and one around history (such as “Kansas became a state January 29, 1861” ). Have each student write a brief description of the book(s) they suggested (no more than one hundred words). Use a website such as “ This Day in History ” to help.

History 165

History Schools Writing Activities 165

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Everyone knows that outside of the school building, creative writing workshops aren’t graded. But if you’re teaching creative writing in a K–12 classroom or a community college, at the end of the day you’re most likely required to stamp a letter grade—or at least a percentage score—on your students’ work.

Writing 113

Writing Essay Feedback Instructors 113

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Event-based virtual field trips create a single point in time where classrooms from around the world connect to form a unique and diverse community that takes a deep-dive on a particular topic or moment in history. U – write a question that you want to learn more about). Plan to revisit these segments in the future.

History 200

History Participation Elementary School Elementary School 200

eSchool News

DECEMBER 25, 2019

Throughout history there has always been the suggestion that students should take “college prep” courses to gain acceptance to college. Education is moving beyond the basics of reading, writing, and arithmetic and is surpassing skills assessment through standardized testing. The pedagogy.

Teachers 223

Teachers Assignments Students Participation 223

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Note: A total of 355 respondents answered this question, selecting all options that apply in response to the following question: “Which skills or concepts do you teach through this product?” I try to get them to create a History folder, have a system and name docs.” Students often drop files haphazardly.

Education 215

Education History Students Quizzes 215

eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

My classroom teachers have been so impressed with student engagement with the lock boxes that I have been recruited to help set up math, history, and science lessons using Breakout EDU. WeVideo : There are many useful video softwares available, but my district approved WeVideo and it has green screen capabilities.

Quizzes 314

Quizzes Learning Styles Lecturing High School 314

Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

Rather than just taking notes, students can respond to surveys and questions using Google Forms or Formative, tools that allow teachers to pose questions or provide activities for students to respond to on their devices throughout the lecture. It’s a strategy that I used as a high school history teacher years ago.

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Essay Teaching Lecturing Coaching 167