eSchool News

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a recent study , grading is one of the least stressful activities early career teachers have to complete. For instance, are teachers allowed to reduce grades for late work? A philosophical foundation is important to how a teacher grades. Are students allowed to retake tests on which they did not do well?

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Edsurge

JUNE 8, 2023

The results of the survey , released this week, showed that students who took courses exclusively online were less likely to communicate with instructors and other students than students who take at least some courses in person. If I never hear from the teacher, never see any assignments, I don’t think about the class.”

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Teachers have three primary roles – designer, instructor, and facilitator. Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. I encourage teachers to consider the following question.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2023

Administrators at Texas State asked instructors to go back to teaching as they did before COVID-19, Meeks said. “I For Meeks, the longtime instructor, this means students are missing out on the whole point of college. “I Or read a transcript below, lightly edited for clarity. I gladly did that because I love being in the classroom.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

I became passionate about helping other teachers feel prepared and finding ways to help them enhance their skills, knowledge and confidence. The combination can feel like a tidal wave, leaving teachers unprepared to navigate challenging classroom environments. Recent research shows that nearly one-third of U.S.

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eSchool News

APRIL 11, 2023

As Tax Day approaches, Poptential , a family of free social studies course packages, offers instructors media-rich content to teach key concepts about taxation in the United States. The day provides a great opportunity for teachers to discuss the history of taxation in the United States, and to show students how taxes impact buying power.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Kramer and others have been experimenting with active teaching methods for a number of years, and wanted to break the notion that some students are born with natural abilities in calculus and that teachers are supposed to identify the gifted few. Our study shows that [any] student can grow” under the right circumstances, Kramer says.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2021

Blackbird’s Educational Version of JavaScript, for the first time, makes it feasible for middle school students and teachers to learn to code – and forms the foundation of Blackbird’s online system for middle school-focused code education. Traditionally, code teaching systems use unmodified programming languages.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Dr. DiTullio was a National Board Certified Teacher (NBCT) and is an esteemed member of both PDK International and the Pi Lambda Theta International Honor Society.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2025

According to a 2024 study from the Community College Research Center at Columbia Universitys Teacher College, dual enrollment increased by 46 percent from 2015 to 2021, and another 18 percent from 2021 to 2023. Some areas may not have enough qualified teachers to offer them.

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eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2023

history teacher Travis Malekpour hesitated assigning his students work in the classroom that required a computer. That seismic shift made devices more accessible to students than ever before — and has now pushed some teachers to fold technology more often into their lesson plans. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

They designed their game using Canva, and they presented their work to a panel of parents and teachers, much like the show Shark Tank. During this process, the students practiced using complex sentence structures to explain their game, with the instructors using scaffolding techniques such as sentence frames to help them.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 4, 2023

This helps schools to better meet students’ interests, while combatting teacher shortages.” VHS Learning collaborates with schools of all types — urban, rural, public, and private — to expand their programs of study and offer instructor-led courses that might not otherwise be available locally.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The program will utilize federal funds under the Every Student Succeeds Act, Title II and feature CORE’s Online Elementary Reading Academy (OERA), as well as individualized coaching sessions for each participating teacher. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue. Portland, Ore., Oakland, Calif.,

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Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

As the capacity of AI grows to complete increasingly complex tasks, we (as college instructors) may wonder what we can offer our students in the age of AI. Why College Instructors Matter: A Student’s Perspective I had a conversation with one of my students recently about this exact question.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 23, 2022

I NDIANAPOLIS, (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — When teaching about the labor movement in the United States, instructors often focus on Cesar Chavez and Peter McGuire to illustrate the rise of unions and workers’ rights. Poptential course packages are standards-based and developed by teachers. the nonprofit behind Poptential.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Moreover, he points to the product’s assessment strategies focused on student outcomes, employing a combination of automated evaluations and teacher-led assessments to ensure comprehensive learning assessment. 00:00:35 Speaker 1 The math teacher. 00:00:36 Speaker 1 Or the science teacher or the librarian.

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eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2025

This edition, which surveyed over 3,000 higher-ed students and instructors and over 1,000 K-12 teachers and administrators, found similarities among higher-ed instructors and K-12 teachers optimism for GenAI specifically.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

When I work with schools that have already adopted the UDL framework, they immediately recognize how blended learning can help teachers to implement many of the principles of UDL more effectively. Teachers can use blended learning to create the time and space necessary for students to: Set personal, academic, and behavioral goals.

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2024

After all, students quickly spread the word on TikTok and other social media platforms that with a few simple prompts, a chatbot could write an essay or answer a homework assignment in ways that would be hard for teachers to detect. Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 18, 2021

However, moving a traditional classroom that’s built for face-to-face delivery to a hybrid-remote environment where instructors are teaching to both students in the classroom and online, often simultaneously, will take more than simply a laptop and a video conferencing application.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

As teachers embrace their new roles as designers, instructors, and facilitators of online learning, many are grappling the details associated with teaching remotely. When learning moves online, teachers have to think about their Google Classroom or the Learning Management System as their virtual classroom.

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eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

Educators and institutions are grappling with how best to integrate these tools into the learning environment while balancing innovation with ethical considerations, assessment concerns, and instructor comfort. Schools or instructors adopting this stance may wish to emphasize traditional methods of learning and assessment.

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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 of public CTE teachers worked in the private sector. percent), Before going into teaching, 65.5

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2022

Even with a classroom full of students, teachers often work in isolation from peers. Teachers rarely receive instruction on how to work with co-teachers or teacher assistants in their pre-service teacher education programs.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Teachers can spend more one-on-one time with students when they use AI to quickly complete tedious tasks. This English teacher created a project-based scenario : The students were attorneys for a law firm, and the teacher is their client, bringing them this challenge: She is thinking about investing in ChatGPT.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Schools need to find alternative paths for recruiting CTE instructors. Recruiting and retaining CTE instructors was already challenging for many districts—and the pandemic has only exacerbated the situation. After the pandemic, the shortage of qualified CTE instructors has only grown.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

Since then, the percentage of adjunct faculty has mushroomed to occupy the vast majority of instructors on many campuses, a deeply troubling dependency on precarious academic workers. Every virtual class is taught by contingent instructors. Across higher ed, it wasn’t always this way. Online, the adjunct load is even greater.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2024

When young students miss school, their teachers begin to think of them as less capable in math and language and less committed to learning, according to a new study. Absence Makes the Heart Grow Colder The study, “ Do Teachers Perceive Absent Students Differently? Why does that matter? If true, this would carry some implications.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

For starters, our administrators were using one communication system and teachers were using a completely different system. Teachers had to create their own distribution lists, which weren’t always current. Those teachers see half the school over the course of a year, or a different group every half-quarter.

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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. She advises teachers to emphasize the importance of struggle and mistakes as part of the learning. Over 50,000 teachers have already joinedcome on in.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Kohn is hardly the only teacher confronted with generative AI. But the desire among some entrepreneurs to use these tools as replacements for teachers or personal tutors has provoked skepticism. Nevertheless, teachers are already deciding how — or even whether — to adopt these tools into the classroom. The main findings?

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our Ask a Tech Teacher crew has several resources for you to consider when you’re looking for case studies that relate to your next project: Case Study Resources for Modern Teachers Introducing case studies in your course can help prepare your students to deal with real-world situations.

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eSchool News

APRIL 14, 2021

Successfully trialed in middle schools and coding academies throughout the country, Blackbird’s offering was built from the ground up to address the middle school gap in coding education – in a platform that can be administered by non-technical and technically minded teachers, instructors and parents. Blackbird Education Platform: ?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Any teacher, even those without subject area expertise, can integrate CoderZ’s scaffolded and standards-aligned curriculum into instruction. Ongoing support and professional development aligned to the standards of the CSTA and NGSS make it even easier for teachers to successfully cover CoderZ’s learning material.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

As we enter a new school year, among the myriad things that instructors and administrators need to be concerned about, ransomware remains high on the list. Do your teachers have tablet computers or iPads they use in the classroom and sometimes take off-site? Those are endpoints. More endpoints.

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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.

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