Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

Several teachers began regularly incorporating Jo Boaler’s YouCubed videos into math lessons, teaching students how mistakes change the brain’s wiring and provide opportunities to make new connections, which is a crucial part of the learning process. Our school leaders are following suit.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Here is one way teachers can use AI tools to curate an entire class’s flow, its study materials, and practice tests without the aid of an army of teaching assistants. Its enhanced accuracy in math and vast knowledge base make it the ideal option for teachers teaching advanced-level courses in STEM subjects.

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Edsurge

JUNE 4, 2024

In it, Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, which has been building a tutoring tool with ChatGPT, sits watching his 15-year old son Imran learn a math concept from a talking version of the chatbot running on an iPad, which can also see what the student is typing on the tablet. It was making math errors. It could be used to cheat.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

So the professor developed a backchannel tool that allows students to submit questions online during class and receive real-time answers from a teaching assistant. Samson thinks students taking introductory science, technology, engineering and math classes could especially benefit from these kinds of tools.

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eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

If I couldnt figure something out on my own, I had resources at my disposal: office hours, teaching assistants, or discussions with peers. Imagine a high school math class where, instead of assigning a dozen repetitive practice problems, the teacher includes a few complex multi-step problems that require students to think critically.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. Source: Marina Umaschi Bers In my Python course, there were a variety of strategies my professor used to promote these behaviors.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Initially ecstatic to start school, Truman was now red in the face from crying while my teaching assistant and I practically pried him off his mother’s leg. We were a few weeks into my first year teaching kindergarten and I had begun to think of my classroom as a warm and inviting space.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 27, 2023

Opening the Learning Journey We believe in an intentional focus on literacy, numeracy, and assistive technology. This model engages classroom teachers as well as reading teachers, math teachers, behavior intervention specialists, and assistive technology specialists, to name a few.

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EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2019

And in New Jersey, Slackwood Elementary School is using an AI-assisted teaching assistant called Happy Numbers to identify where students are struggling with math benchmarks and provide personalized assistance.

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Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2017

TrueShelf , an adaptive learning platform that lets students learn mathematical concepts by helping them solve an unlimited number of math problems and real-world puzzles that get progressively harder as their skills develop. EdSurge: What prompted you to develop an adaptive approach to learning math? Shiva Kintali, TrueShelf CEO.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

We look forward to customizing this offering to fit the needs of more schools that could use this same type of quality teaching assistance.”. Through an extensive collaboration process, we created this new Learning Under Quarantine model to meet the needs of Breakthrough’s student population.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. She currently serves as course coordinator for MATH 2043 Survey of Calculus. It makes us more approachable and makes it easier to begin establishing those valuable connections with our students. References Schudde, L.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Erika, grade 10 math and science teacher Clear Guidelines Pave the Way for Teachers to Embrace Technology More Fully I was able to create lessons with no preparation. When I was in the classroom—I am now a numeracy support coach for the board, and by the way still use tech when in classrooms—I used tech a lot.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Teaching assistants moderated an online discussion forum through Piazza , an online community building and discussion platform, and held recitations, which enabled students to ask questions and ponder ideas. Source: Marina Umaschi Bers In my Python course, there were a variety of strategies my professor used to promote these behaviors.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

As a teaching assistant, Ramirez wound up grading more than 100 papers a semester and realized that students weren’t getting adequate feedback. million (approximately US $15 million) in cash for Cogeon GmbH, a Berlin-based developer behind the math app, Math 42 , used by more than 1.8

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Scholarly Teacher

JANUARY 29, 2025

LAs met regularly with their mentors, both to engage in planning and reflection around the math content, as well as to discuss professional and personal concerns the LAs were navigating as new to college young adults. Benefits of a comprehensive undergraduate teaching assistant Program. under review). Gomez Johnson, K.,Jakopovic,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor at the University of Arkansas. She currently serves as course coordinator for MATH 2043 Survey of Calculus. It makes us more approachable and makes it easier to begin establishing those valuable connections with our students. References Schudde, L.

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Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Assigning open-ended problems does not have to be complicated; it could be a simple real-life math distribution problem such as party planning (and you need to decide on number of tables and chairs, etc.) Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Tutors can almost act as virtual teaching assistants, helping students grasp even the most nuanced concepts of a lesson—without requiring time and energy that classroom teachers simply don’t have. –Brett Woudenberg, CEO, MIND Research Institute , Creators of ST Math. –Myles Hunter, Co-Founder and CEO, TutorMe.

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Learning Communication Hybrid Learning Languages 363

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Assigning open-ended problems does not have to be complicated; it could be a simple real-life math distribution problem such as party planning (and you need to decide on number of tables and chairs, etc.) Shanda Hood is a teaching assistant professor for the Fulbright College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Arkansas.

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Assignments Instructors Critical Thinking Activities 82

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 31, 2016

an ed pen to mark up math work (or any work). classes can be shared with teaching assistants and co-teachers. Features include: an abbreviated Student Information System to work with class set-up data. analytics to track not only student academic progress but absences and recognition badges. student and teacher blog platforms.

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Assignments Testing Grades Classroom Management 84

Faculty Focus

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Stefanie Baier is the Director of Graduate Student and Postdoc Instructional Development at the Graduate Educator Advancement and Teaching (GREAT) Office at the Graduate School at Michigan State University. Samara Chamoun is a PhD candidate in the Department of Mathematics at Michigan State University.

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Scholarly Teacher

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The relations between students’ belongingness, self-efficacy, and response to active learning in science, math, and engineering classes. Jacobson, K., Finelli, C., Andrews, M. E., & Borrego, M. International Journal of Science Education , 45 (15), 1241–1261. link] Hsu, J. L., & Goldsmith, G.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Tutors can almost act as virtual teaching assistants, helping students grasp even the most nuanced concepts of a lesson—without requiring time and energy that classroom teachers simply don’t have. –Brett Woudenberg, CEO, MIND Research Institute , Creators of ST Math. –Myles Hunter, Co-Founder and CEO, TutorMe.

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Hybrid Learning Communication Accessibility Languages 297

Whiteboard Blog

MARCH 31, 2024

For example, platforms like Carnegie Learning use AI to offer math instruction tailored to individual student performance. For instance, introducing an AI teaching assistant like Jill Watson , developed by Georgia Tech, can start in a single course before expanding school-wide.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

A respected math teacher at a K-12 public charter school in Apple Valley, California, Holifield was in steep physical decline. At first, he stumbled and, his hands weak, relied entirely on teaching assistants to write equations on the board for him. For a long time, I would have said I wasn’t a math person either.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Jack Sytsma is a doctoral graduate teaching assistant in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. While his research is at the forefront of understanding how plants respond to climate, Jack is equally passionate about teaching. .” ” Journal of College Science Teaching 49, no. 6 (2020): 4047.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 11, 2025

Jack Sytsma is a doctoral graduate teaching assistant in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University. While his research is at the forefront of understanding how plants respond to climate, Jack is equally passionate about teaching. .” ” Journal of College Science Teaching 49, no. 6 (2020): 4047.

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Interdisciplinary Instructors Students Motivation 57

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2025

Dominguez had a longer term vision for the remaining rounds of pandemic emergency funding: Hire teaching assistants for early elementary classrooms to help the districts youngest learners, who were struggling with math and reading as a result of uneven exposure to school during remote learning. she recalled.

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