eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2025

al (2019), Integrative teaching benefits middle-level learners as it potentially increases student engagement, motivation, and achievement. For instance, in social studies class discussing renewable energy can lead to academic discussion or projects where students research about local initiatives in their community.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A study conducted in Prince William County, Virginia, provides insights into how individual students can benefit from tracking their own academic progress. Middle school social studies teacher Erin Merrill implemented a system where students use a data notebook to track their mastery of specific standards.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

The practice is known as “data walls,” and is designed to serve as a motivational tool. Students are told that “everyone is working to move their number” even higher, says Demetria Tumpkin, a second grade teacher at the school. At South Newton Elementary School In Newton, N.C.,

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

If executed correctly, students become intrinsically motivated to apply a new skill to the real-world, or provide their own solution to a problem. Consider the following: How does the instructional technology connect the classroom to other classrooms, to the school community, to the local community or to the global community?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The approach is more prevalent in some “pockets” of the country, Townsley says, particularly New Hampshire , Maine and Wisconsin , with more recent adoptions in schools in Connecticut , New Mexico and Oregon. His main motivation, he said, is to address the inequities that he sees in who performs well in the current system.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Kahlfeldt has touched on the census many times in his 15 years as a middle school social studies teacher at Winfield School District 34 (22 years total as an educator). He also shares how his zesty attitude toward social studies makes lessons on the census—and many other topics—pop for his students.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma. For years, the school had been searching for ways to reverse the pattern of disengagement, build motivation to complete schoolwork and get students over that finish line at graduation.

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Education Exams Motivation Elementary School 271

Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 4, 2023

No doubt, these are excellent sources, but if students aren’t motivated by them, they won’t get a lot out of them. They hear original phrasing, emphasis, and often reactions to dramatic events that — without recordings — would be simply words on paper to most of them, devoid of passion, emotion, and motivation.

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Quizzes History Students Motivation 148

Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

In talking with Fraser, it becomes clear that the decision to relaunch Carmen was motivated in a big way by nostalgia. The company seems to be betting that it might not be such a hard sell to get her back into schools and homes given that so many Carmen fans now wield purchasing power and lead classrooms of their own.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

I'm a bit flabbergasted at the idea of you leaving at the end of the school day going to a Starbucks, and then basically working on this for five hours, everyday. Where does the motivation come from—professional life? The motivation is personal. Starting a school is really, really hard. Personal life?

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Social Studies Education Students Culture 76

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

No doubt, these are excellent sources, but if students aren’t motivated by them, they won’t get a lot out of them. With the assistance of two quirky moderators, colorful graphics, and a clean uncluttered interface, students are drawn to these easy-to-understand discussions on thousands of topics they’re studying.

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Quizzes History Students Middle School 79

k12 Online Schools

APRIL 26, 2025

Self-Motivation and Discipline Without the physical presence of teachers and peers, students must be motivated to complete assignments and stay on track independently. Establish School Hours Set clear learning hours that mimic traditional school timings, with blocks allocated for live classes, independent study, breaks, and meals.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Sarah We know enough about neurodiversity to know that the “sitting still and listening” way of doing school doesn’t work well for many students. By using “multiple means of engagement,” students who are not typically very engaged or motivated dial into the lesson. The fear of getting the problem “wrong” starts early.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

However, the evidence for this from her study was weak. In general, when it comes to lifting student participation rates broadly, it’s a common misconception that youth aren’t motivated, Jung says. Youth are motivated to participate , she says. Khan says that he hopes it will motivate students to become engaged.

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Education Students Testing Participation 190

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APRIL 23, 2024

Being in a small school, they needed help taking on extra elective sections, so I also started teaching eighth grade art in my fourth year. Finally, this year, I’ve added sixth grade math, so now I have a hand in all three grade levels at our middle school. What has been the most challenging and rewarding part of your job?

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

“We need to talk about the trauma of teaching through a pandemic,” urges Christopher Bowen, a STEM curriculum specialist for Johnson City Schools in Tennessee. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate. Teachers are leaving. I need to do the same.'"

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Many said campaign rhetoric about failing schools and politically motivated teachers was deeply hurtful and simply wrong. In my school, in my district, were not out trying to reculture kids. Kiddos here at this school, some of them have been through more than I will ever experience in my life, and theyre six and seven.

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