eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

As teachers strive to adapt their instructional methods to nurture student curiosity and drive deeper student engagement, the principles outlined in Teach Like A Pirate offer valuable insights. in teaching. in teaching. Another hook is bringing the Amazing Race into the classroom.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

As generative artificial intelligence (AI) is supporting the creation of powerful tool suites that can enhance the teaching and learning process, it seems reasonable to identify some ways that teacher assistants can use these tools as well. The nationwide shortage of teachers has caused a similar shortage in the ranks of teacher assistants.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2025

We asked educators to share their views about teaching and learning in 2025 (find industry predictions for 2025 here ). Traditional tests focused on factual recall may instead give way to assessments that better align with NGSS’s emphasis on critical thinking, problem-solving, and the application of knowledge in real-world contexts.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

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. More than 50 years of research has illuminated the most effective way to teach children to read. In fact, one state, Iowa, requires no reading licensure test at all.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2024

Here are some trauma-informed teaching strategies you can use to intentionally strengthen your relationships with students and support their success. However, because it impacts such a large number of students, you can use specific strategies to help all students develop resiliency and improve emotional regulation.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

While teachers know how to prepare to help their students succeed, too often we forget to focus on what we need to prioritize our overall well-being so we can hold on to the joy of teaching. I recently gave a presentation for Utah-based teachers called The Joy of Teaching: How to Sustain Your Professional Passion. You matter.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

If you teach a man to fish, he will be richer forever. Students are no longer just attending school to pass tests–they are actively seeking knowledge and skills to help them achieve their dreams. At its base are physiological and safety needs, followed by love and belonging, esteem, and self-actualization at the peak.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2023

It was with great trepidation — knowing that I could not live up to this model but wanting to do my best — that I took my job teaching social studies at a small public high school in the Bronx. Watching “To Sir, With Love” was even a course requirement in my teacher residency program.

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k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

Knowledge grows in bits. The implications stretch far beyond convenience or novelty- they represent a fundamental shift in how knowledge transfers from source to student. use gamified chatbot interactions to teach grammar and vocabulary, simulating real-world practice and offering immediate correction and encouragement.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Saying Tell Us, instead of Tell me, validates each student’s role as both a learner and giver of knowledge. Having conducted well over a thousand observations of K-12 teachers over the last 15 years, I have noticed there is one piece of feedback I have given more than any other–and it involves a seemingly minor word change.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2025

From project-based activities that encourage students to apply their knowledge to real-world problems to digital learning platforms that create personalized learning paths, models that focus on learning and are not bound by traditional time barriers foster an immersive learning experience rather than an assembly-line approach to education.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Professionals who prefer part-time work in school districts and prefer to work full time can expand their experience in various practice settings such as outpatient facilities and early intervention or specialty centers, creating a full-time job across multiple settings and expanding their knowledge and experience.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The aspect of teaching that is hard to replicate in the online environment is the teachers’ ability to collect informal data by merely listening and observing. How can we effectively weave formative assessment into the design and facilitation of learning regardless of the teaching and learning landscape? #1

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

UDL is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” UDL recognizes that every class comprises a wide range of learners with various needs, skills, experiences, knowledge, and interests. It was an exhausting and often frustrating experience.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 16, 2024

As the person in this role, I work hand-in-hand with our schools and teachers to ensure they have the tools and knowledge they need to recognize and address social-emotional concerns, apply SEL in their daily activities and support our overall efforts to enrich our school community.

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

Expressing their views about AI and math instruction, more than 64 percent of teachers say that its best used in coordination with human education from teachers to help students create a bridge between prior and new knowledge. How could or should the math teachers role change as a result of student AI use?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented. This is not unusual.

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2024

Key points: Critical thinking should not be separate from and on top of what teachers are doing in the classroom How to help students build critical success skills 3 lessons on perseverance from Stoffel the honey badger For more news on durable skills, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub Achievement discrepancies among U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

A student’s cultural background or prior knowledge may impact their level of understanding or their specific interpretation of a word or symbol. Learning is a complex process in which learners take information and turn it into knowledge they can use when making decisions or approaching new and novel situations or tasks.

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Even though teaching online may feel like a different animal than teaching face-to-face, there are many similarities in terms of the building blocks of a lesson. Will you collect formative assessment data to assess prior knowledge or check for understanding? The tools teachers use to engage students online are indeed different.

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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).

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eSchool News

APRIL 24, 2025

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. For most teachers, student teaching is their most valuable preparatory experience , and a strong program gives them armor against burnout.

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eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Griffins $2 million leadership gift is specifically focused on supporting TAP in creating a pipeline of talent for the teaching profession through recruiting, preparing, and mentoring aspiring educators, including those who had not previously considered a career in education. This gift builds on Griffins $3.5

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Teaching is a challenging profession on the best of days.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

When teachers include too many criteria in a rubric, they may unintentionally assess skills or knowledge they do not spend significant time helping students master. This helps them to focus their efforts on the skills and knowledge that are most important. This feedback can help students improve their skills and knowledge over time.

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eSchool News

MAY 2, 2025

As schools, districts, and policymakers grapple with the realities of a rapidly evolving workforce that requires discipline-specific knowledge, high-tech know-how, and hands-on skills, there is a growing recognition that the traditional approaches to preparing students for the real world no longer suffice.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

This method, however, may inadvertently create myriad barriers for students with hearing impairments, memory challenges, attention deficit disorders, insufficient background knowledge, or who lack familiarity with subject-specific or academic vocabulary. This encourages brainstorming and prediction.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

In the coming year, that broad trend will continue, with a shift to looking beyond knowledge building as schools, districts, and states begin improving capacity and creating systems aligned to the science of reading. It is a body of research from multiple disciplines that helps us understand how people learn to read.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

” I remember questioning how effective those sessions would be at improving teaching and learning. We teach beautifully diverse groups of students with various skill levels, needs, language proficiencies, and learning preferences. I don’t want AI to replace the human element of education; I want it to elevate it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2024

Research shows that teaching students individual letter-sound correspondences and having them sound out words is more effective. The problem with emphasizing whole words Some children’s books that are used to teach reading use repetition. It may also help them to acquire new phonics knowledge. I see the firefighter.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

For students to be truly prepared for their futures, they need academic knowledge, technical expertise, and workforce skills that translate directly into the workplace. Employers seek candidates who not only have technical knowledge, but also have problem-solving skills, adaptability, and communication skills.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom. This variation in student capabilities underscores the importance of letting these insights guide lesson design.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

He knows that having students engage with one another across neighborhoods, nations, and even continents builds cultural understanding, appreciation for diversity, global knowledge and global engagement– learning outcomes we have defined and measured –as well as general academic skills.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These models are flexible and able to transcend any single teaching and learning landscape. I ask them to brainstorm and discuss with colleagues the benefits and challenges of teaching using the whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model. Below are the benefits and challenges of teaching in a whole group lesson.

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eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

This can be everything from students asking good questions and sharing their thinking verbally to relating a new problem to prior knowledge and using a visual representation to illustrate their thought process. It becomes the anchor for coherent expectations and a common language that supports teaching and learning schoolwide.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

These challenges often force educators to sacrifice their prep periods, substitute for other classes, or take on additional teaching duties. Students come into our classrooms with different life experiences, prior knowledge, and language proficiencies. Given these insights, the teacher can now tailor his instruction more effectively.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2025

This uncertainty can be daunting, but one thing is clear: Foundational knowledge in computer science will be essential, no matter what paths they choose. How can we ensure that all students develop the computing skills and knowledge necessary to thrive in an increasingly technology-driven workforce?

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