eSchool News

JUNE 10, 2025

“Massachusetts districts face urgent literacy gaps, and our high-dosage tutoring model is designed to close those gaps efficiently and effectively,” said Devon Wible, vice president of teaching and learning for Catapult Learning. “We Kindergarten and first graders more than tripled their scores on five of six subtests.

Secondary Education 244

Secondary Education Schools Learning Coaching 244

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

Science 247

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 247

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups. Saying Tell Us, instead of Tell me, validates each student’s role as both a learner and giver of knowledge.

Culture 273

Culture Feedback Languages Language 273

Teach Thought

JULY 9, 2025

But your Rational Mind is servant to another kind of thinking—in fact, is roused and spurred by a kind of insecurity that realizes that unmistakable importance and coinciding impossibility of what you’ve made it your life’s work to do: Teach dozens and dozens of other human beings what they need to know to about (insert your content area here).

Education 77

Education Critical Thinking Essay Motivation 77

Faculty Focus

JULY 17, 2025

This teaching helps students blend ideas, think deeply across fields, and work well with people from varied backgrounds. Drawing from my experience teaching across subjects at Zayed University in Dubai, UAE, I want to share real ways teachers can build and run cross-subject courses that truly help students handle today’s complex world.

Interdisciplinary 53

Interdisciplinary Teaching Knowledge Peer Review 53

eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

They can tell if someones skipping class a floor away by reading faces in the room. These sights and sounds meld with texts, guides, and knowledge about what species are likely in an area and when they migrate. And its changed the way I look at my early days of teaching. Was that the same bird I just heard a half mile back?

Classroom Management 176

Classroom Management Coaching Feedback Teaching 176

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

I’m picturing a lot of family time, slower mornings, and leisure reading in my future, but I also like to spend some time brushing up on my teaching skills each summer. Professional growth doesn’t have to be overwhelming… it can fit into your summer routine as a rewarding way to improve your teaching.

Reading 59

Reading Skills Teachers Classroom Management 59

k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Mind, brain and education science combines knowledge in the fields of cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and education to inform methods of teaching and explore the impact of those strategies on learning, helping to transform the field of education. work with a partner to light a bulb using the materials provided for you).

Science 130

Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2025

The Advanced Education Research & Development Fund (AERDF), a national nonprofit, and its awardees debuted the latest advancements and innovations in math, literacy, assessment, and AI from its portfolio of R&D awardees from across its R&D Programs – EF+Math, Assessment for Good, Reading Reimagined, and AugmentED.

Math 130

Math Culture Knowledge Science 130

Faculty Focus

MAY 18, 2025

Creating a classroom in the service of social justice (The Metropolitan Center for Urban Education, 2008) requires a profound understanding of the impact of human diversity on teaching and learning (Cushner et al., Assume that students are capable and possess knowledge and skills. Replace and/or supplement outdated readings.

Accessibility 95

Accessibility Disabilities Learning Disabilities Special Education 95

Tim Manson

JULY 10, 2025

It is great to have their experience and wealth of knowledge feeding into the NI education system, but I do feel a little embarrassed by the lack of Northern Irish voices who are leading curricular change in Northern Ireland. Teachers have become happy to teach the same old stuff. We like what we teach and we teach what we like.

Curriculum 96

Curriculum Blended Learning Knowledge Discussions 96

Teach Thought

JULY 10, 2025

Letter grades are indeed first subjective evaluations of knowledge proficiency, but once they are passed to the hands of the students, they become game components, passed around as proof of the completion of some task, or the achievement of some desired goal (mastering a standard, fulfilling the requirements of an assignment, etc.)

Gamification 103

Gamification Learning Motivation Learning Styles 103

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. I have encouraged giving frequent quizzes , think-pair-shares , and teaching students to use flashcards , but there are a lot of other ways to do it.

Multiple Choice Questions 80

Multiple Choice Questions Teachers Writing Questions 80

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

He said that students could read much of the content off our PowerPoint slides and in the assigned readings without AI. He said that students have had access to the information we teach prior to AI. They could always find and read the content on their own. We should embrace this role as we teach in the age of AI.

Instructors 98

Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

Instead of overwhelming students with lengthy video lectures or dense readings, microlearning delivers short, focused modules that concentrate on single learning objectives. These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. Another challenge is content overload.

Critical Thinking 88

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 88

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

Instead of overwhelming students with lengthy video lectures or dense readings, microlearning delivers short, focused modules that concentrate on single learning objectives. These data-driven approaches make it possible to transition from reactive teaching to proactive guidance. Another challenge is content overload.

Critical Thinking 94

Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 94

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 1, 2025

You’ve been teaching for five years and love what you’re doing. So, you don’t bother to keep your resume up-to-date or expand your teaching skills other than what is required for your position. Sample lesson plans, artifacts Upload a full lesson plan that is typical of what you teach in classes.

Teaching Philosophy 81

Teaching Philosophy Knowledge Feedback Languages 81

Teach Thought

MAY 17, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? First, a student has to be able to define what an ‘author’s position’ is and what ‘evidence from the text’ means ( Knowledge-level ). It also makes a powerful self-directed learning tool.

Critical Thinking 52

Critical Thinking Evaluation Knowledge Curriculum Design 52

Faculty Focus

APRIL 22, 2025

Since the public release of ChatGPT in December 2022, educators have faced the challenge of effectively integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into their teaching. To scaffold their analysis, I provided a couple of foundational readings on AI, alongside an article of their choosing, see Roose, 2023 and Gates, 2023 citations.

Ethics 88

Ethics Plagiarism Education Intelligence 88

Teach Thought

MAY 27, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Integrating AI Into Bloom’s Taxonomy AI tools like ChatGPT are reshaping how students access and interact with knowledge—but where do they fit within Bloom’s framework? The answer depends on the design of the task.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Critical Thinking Knowledge Reading 52

Teach Thought

JULY 11, 2025

I love teaching with analogies.) Not temporarily wanting to know, or being vaguely interested in an answer, but being able to put together past experience and knowledge like the millions of fibers on a network–only to be maddeningly stopped from branching further without understanding or knowing this one bit.

Learning 94

Learning Students Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning 94

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 What are the Necessary Steps to Specifically Help SES Students? In management, it might be a company.

Student Engagement 96

Student Engagement Syllabus Learning Students 96

Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Start by Building Background Not all students enter the classroom with the same prior knowledge, especially multilingual learners. Try This: Imagine youre teaching a new ecology unit to your 8 th grade science class. Language spotlight: Ask students to teach the class a word or short phrase from their home language.

Languages 52

Languages Language Participation Writing 52

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 16, 2025

Build up foundational knowledge 4. Build up foundational knowledge Many students enter high school with gaps in their instruction, making many lessons and activities feel impossibly difficult. This foundational knowledge includes study skills. This foundational knowledge includes study skills. Table of Contents 1.

High School 52

High School High School Beliefs Schools 52

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Morrow was surprised to read that Ruiz had finished in 11th place in the New York Marathon. Integrity is often talked about as a coin that reads cheated on one side and didnt cheat on the other. Integrity describes a commitment to ensure ones completion of a task accurately represents the knowledge and skills one actually possesses.

Academic Integrity 92

Academic Integrity Learning Feedback Assignments 92

Organized Classroom

JUNE 11, 2025

It not only instills a sense of social responsibility and empathy but also teaches valuable life skills such as teamwork, leadership, and organization. ” Students can seek sponsors for each book they read or math problem they solve, with the funds raised going towards a specific cause or charity.

Elementary School 83

Elementary School Elementary School Participation Activities 83

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Back To School All About Me Flip-book Activity By Love Live Laugh TEACH Use an “all about me” activity to create your first bulletin board of the year! Stories of Our Summer : Create printouts of little books and have each student write a story about a favorite summer activity or a favorite book they read.

Schools 98

Schools Counselling Math Motivation 98

eSchool News

MAY 14, 2025

Now, the COVID pandemic thrust schools into emergency remote teaching mode virtually overnight. In this conversation, we explore how today’s remote learning differs from that pandemic era emergency teaching. Now give me a version of that course for a student who’s a little bit behind on their reading skills.

Learning 130

Learning Discussions Gamification Technology 130

Priceless Ponderings

MAY 18, 2025

Get the Facts Read All About It! You can start your magnet adventure by digging into some nonfiction reads. Its a great way to build background knowledge while sneaking in some reading comprehension practice. Plus, when you pair reading with discussion, those magnetic concepts really start to stick!

Science 52

Science Activities Testing Reading 52

k12

JULY 10, 2025

Online learning isn’t limited to slides and reading assignments. Encourage your child to listen to teacher feedback; if they feel something isn’t working, teach them how to share that respectfully. These systems often allow students to message teachers, work in groups, share files, and stay organized—all in one place.

Online Learning 52

Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 23, 2025

but the ampersand and the non-phonetic spelling of "Debris" stumped them so I read that for them, "Junk and debris," explaining that debris was basically another word for junk. Finally, we read the phrase "Loose Parts" which meant nothing to us. I don't need to know what they are learning, only they do. That's enough.

Testing 87

Testing Reading Knowledge Writing 87

Teach Thought

MAY 19, 2025

Skip to content Read Menu Toggle Critical Thinking Posts Learning Posts Literacy Posts Recent Newsletter Support Us? Remote teaching. How does it support teachers–make teaching a creative and intellectual and human act instead of a matter of policy, procedure, and survival? Content-based academic standards. Use of data.

Local Government 52

Local Government Critical Thinking Peer Review Questions 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JUNE 19, 2025

Frankly, I couldn't handle the stress of believing that these children's futures depend on my ability to "teach" them all these things they aren't particularly interested in learning. “A. major illusion on which the school system rests is that most learning is the result of teaching. Teaching and learning are very different things.

Motivation 101

Motivation Testing Failure Grades 101

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

How do you decide whether to keep reading a book or to stop reading it? Nature Walk Journal; Nature Scavenger Hunt; Nature Journal Prompt; Outside Guide By Teach Go Green Grades: 3rd-10th Subjects: Environment, Science Guide high schoolers through a writing walk with a nature walk journal. What about 3 hours? What happens next?

High School 52

High School High School Writing Essay 52

Edsurge

JULY 3, 2025

But in recent years, a handful of urban library systems have stepped up to offer readers who are at least 13 years old a chance to read the books that might be unavailable in their home areas. You can read whatever you want. — You can read whatever you want” that’s in a digital format. It‘s our entire book collection.

Accessibility 211

Accessibility Participation Reading Beliefs 211

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In fact, one state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all. This shortcoming means that, every year, nearly 100,000 elementary teachers across the country enter classrooms with false assurances that they are ready to teach reading. Far too many states are using these weak tests.

Reading 296

Reading Teaching Exams Teachers 296

eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If we wish to see continued success, we will need to use everything the science of reading has taught us and provide students with a healthy diet of explicit literacy instruction that includes foundational skills like decoding, in addition to building content knowledge and higher-order comprehension strategies.

Science 303

Science Reading Knowledge Motivation 303