eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2017

Check back tomorrow for Lessons Learned by Educators. They are constantly expanding their knowledge, refining their skills, and looking for creative ways to help kids learn. Click here for yesterday’s article from Superintendents.]. The best educational leaders are lifelong learners. Student engagement is high.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Role-Playing and Simulations : Role-playing activities or simulations immerse students in real-world scenarios, encouraging them to apply knowledge and critical thinking skills. Peer Teaching : Students teach concepts to their peers, reinforcing understanding and promoting active engagement with the material.

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Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning Lecturing 245

Edsurge

MAY 15, 2024

The BrowardSTEM team leads and supports with experience, expertise and agility in core content standards, STEM implementation, instructional technology and interdisciplinary applied problem-based learning. Research is foundational to sustaining and expanding access to all students.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Active learning strategies for students encompass various techniques aimed at engaging learners in the educational process, fostering deeper understanding, and enhancing retention. Six key strategies include: Peer Instruction: This method involves students teaching and explaining concepts to their peers.

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Active Learning Activities Critical Thinking Quizzes 143

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

We started with guidance from Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Theory, “a process of constructing knowledge based on experience which embraced activelearning modalities as viable examples of the theory.In This step is essential in all forms of active learning, especially in the higher order modalities.

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Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 70

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

After months of research and a successful pilot, the district chose enVision to be that core mathematics curriculum because of its rigor, digital learning components, and engaging lessons. enVision offers an innovative math curriculum that helps educators teach with confidence and inspires students with hands-on, problem-based learning.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience.

Learning 122

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 122

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. as an example, let’s look at teaching with case studies.

Student Engagement 131

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 131

eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

Peer Teaching : Having students teach concepts to their peers reinforces understanding and promotes active engagement with the material. Peer teaching encourages collaboration, communication skills development, and deeper comprehension. This promotes teamwork, communication skills, and peer learning.

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Study Activities Critical Thinking Active Learning 130

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Neglecting to Teach Information Literacy As a teacher, I was incentivized to get my students to memorize as many facts as possible so they could regurgitate them on the statewide test at the end of the school year. I learned to justify my teaching approach by telling myself, “This is what students need to be successful.”

Critical Thinking 148

Critical Thinking Testing Evaluation Science 148

Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Experiential learning in its many forms is widely recognized as a high-impact educational practice, one that has been thoroughly tested and shown to be beneficial to a wide spectrum of college students. Experiential learning is a process through which a learner constructs knowledge, skill, and value from direct experience.

Learning 98

Learning Problem-Based Learning Students Lecturing 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

I know you and I have talked about using problem-based learning, thinking about prior learning assessments, not assuming that adults need to be taught everything from square one but that they bring interesting work and life experiences to the table. My own institution has worked quite collaboratively with others.

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k12 Digest

APRIL 6, 2025

Though innovation is essential, especially in moments of disruption, there is a long history of practices, approaches, and theories of learning to honor and guide us as we decide where to go next as a field. This is not new knowledge. Problem based learning therefore may result in deeper learning.

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Scholarly Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Dean-Scott , Texas State University Key Statement: Cogenerative (cogen) dialogues are one learner-centered approach to engaging students in agency for their own learning and development in a course. The characteristics of quality teaching are often ambiguous. In these spaces, the teacher is not the only one with knowledge.

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Teaching Instructors Syllabus Problem-Based Learning 52

Faculty Focus

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Unlike the end-of-semester feedback, when gathering formative feedback on what’s helping or hindering student learning might be too late, mid-term analysis of our teaching and student learning may help motivate students and enhance their learning. as an example, let’s look at teaching with case studies.

Student Engagement 98

Student Engagement Lecturing Students Feedback 98

Teach Hub

APRIL 3, 2025

There comes a time in every teachers career when those tried-and-true learning strategies that once worked no longer seem effective. There could be several reasons for thisyou might be teaching a new grade level, your students may not be as receptive, or the strategies just dont feel as relevant anymore. The key difference?

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Active Learning Activities Learning Critical Thinking 67

Faculty Focus

MAY 29, 2025

We started with guidance from Jean Piaget’s Constructivist Learning Theory, “a process of constructing knowledge based on experience which embraced activelearning modalities as viable examples of the theory.In This step is essential in all forms of active learning, especially in the higher order modalities.

Student Engagement 70

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 70

Edsurge

JULY 18, 2016

Learn how personalized learning through purposeful gaming can help you engage your students and increase their motivation to learn. Dive into blended and problem-based learning to deepen your understanding of how to use 1:1 computing in your classroom. What’s your favorite kind of summer learning?

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Problem-Based Learning History Evaluation Motivation 91