eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

Teachers and parents can assign grade-level texts, paired with vocabulary lessons and comprehension questions. ReadWorks is especially helpful for English Language Learners, offering audio versions and question supports to aid comprehension.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. This workshop offers a comprehensive framework to address chronic absenteeism through a lens of equity and inclusion, ensuring every student is seen, valued, and motivated to attend school regularly. What should we use?

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Art Math STEM Participation 287

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2025

Its a question that high school and middle school math teachers have heard many times. Solving this motivation problem is tricky. Students more immediately see the relevance of courses that relate to careers of interest, particularly data science, which allows students to interrogate data with real-world questions, Henderson says.

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k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” My journey has been one of constant evolution—from questioning the system to becoming someone who works to reimagine it. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Practical Strategies for Classroom Application The research consistently tells us that the application of brain-based learning principles leads to increased academic achievement, better behavior, development of appropriate social-emotional skills, and increased motivation. Lets examine a few examples from the research. link] Rahmatin, L.

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Science Education Motivation Lecturing 130

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. This workshop offers a comprehensive framework to address chronic absenteeism through a lens of equity and inclusion, ensuring every student is seen, valued, and motivated to attend school regularly. What should we use?

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Art Math STEM Participation 150

eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2025

However, the RAND study notes that routine boredom is associated with lower school performance, reduced motivation, reduced effort, and increased rates of dropping out of school. Feeling bored in math class from time to time is not an unusual experience, and feeling “math anxiety” is common.

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Elementary School Elementary School Study Math 260

We are Teachers

JULY 1, 2025

Use these teacher-tested morning meeting questions to inspire, encourage, or get kids thinking first thing in the day. Free printable!

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Questions Testing Teachers Motivation 94

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

Given this reality in which AI can provide and synthesize information for and to our students at their requests in seconds, it is not completely paranoid to ask the question, What can we, as college instructors, offer our students in the age of AI? What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn.

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Instructors Motivation Critical Thinking Students 98

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

From a young age, I was captivated by a single question: “Can learning be more meaningful than memorization?” My journey has been one of constant evolution—from questioning the system to becoming someone who works to reimagine it. This kind of structured choice fosters agency and motivation.

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Interdisciplinary Learning Feedback Culture 144

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This article explores how these three components can reshape flipped learning and address persistent challenges such as student unpreparedness, fear of participation, and lack of motivation. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 89

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful? To address this dismal response to education, we must promote inclusive and respectful learning environments that foster engagement, motivation, and active discourse.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 67

Faculty Focus

JULY 1, 2025

This article explores how these three components can reshape flipped learning and address persistent challenges such as student unpreparedness, fear of participation, and lack of motivation. This data is accessible to both teachers and students through visual dashboards, which serve as powerful motivators and intervention tools.

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Critical Thinking Student Engagement Lecturing Quizzes 95

eSchool News

JUNE 18, 2025

When I returned to the classroom, I faced those same questions. This workshop offers a comprehensive framework to address chronic absenteeism through a lens of equity and inclusion, ensuring every student is seen, valued, and motivated to attend school regularly. What should we use?

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Art Math STEM Participation 145

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

For the student that wants to prepare for in-class conversation, preparing and providing a few open-ended reading reflection questions (launchpad ideas) may be useful. The questions are intentional few in nature so students can focus on responding to one or two and reading to find solid text evidence to support responses. Stalnaker, J.,

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Instructors Assignments Participation Students 93

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2025

For Johnson, it was a love of learning that motivated her: “I just like to know things about everything. The course’s six modules began with essential questions — What is computational thinking? And when I saw that these options were all STEM related, I thought to myself, ‘Let’s do it!’” We learned so much. Where does it occur?

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Science Teachers Critical Thinking STEM 140

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

rapid retrieval: During a lecture, stop every 10 minutes or so to ask a question about a topic you’ve covered. “You want just enough to get people motivated, but not so much that people feel anxious,” Blunt explains. “Present students with a multiple choice question.” ” Rivers explains.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

This shift raises critical questions about the future of education: How will teachers adapt their roles? This shift raises questions about the efficacy and long-term viability of conventional education methods. Studies show that students in remote settings often feel isolated, which can lead to decreased motivation and engagement.

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Hybrid Learning Learning Styles Study Critical Thinking 139

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2025

One half is described as entrepreneurial, image-conscious and highly motivated. Younger ones have been forced to question it more openly. And if you ask me, the ability to question what matters — and still come back to empathy, communication and knowledge as core leadership traits — isn’t a sign of generational confusion.

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Beliefs Communication Lecturing Culture 142

Faculty Focus

JULY 15, 2025

The fundamental question becomes: How can educators plan for and deliver instructional content that is relatable and meaningful? To address this dismal response to education, we must promote inclusive and respectful learning environments that foster engagement, motivation, and active discourse.

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Assignments Art Critical Thinking Motivation 62

Faculty Focus

JUNE 1, 2025

In my more recent students evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations at the beginning of the semester. What a good question. In evaluations, students say they are less stressed, they are more motivated, and they understand assignment expectations better.

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k12

JULY 10, 2025

Here are some of the benefits of prioritizing online engagement: Improved learning outcomes Increased motivation and self-esteem Enhanced understanding and retention Reduced isolation and increased community Improved completion rates These are the kinds of outcomes every parent hopes for. Encourage your child to participate!

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Online Learning Quizzes Learning Motivation 52

Faculty Focus

JULY 20, 2025

is a question that has reverberated from the minds of learners for decades. There are guiding questions and ideas for Tara and Tim to discuss with the mentors provided by their employer. Tara describes how she uses psychological motivation techniques with her team of employees. What’s the root cause of the disconnect?

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Syllabus Education Ethics Instructors 94

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 12, 2025

Explore the author’s work and help your students prep thoughtful questions. Each visit kicks off with a game of 20 Questions where students try to guess the identity of their upcoming visitor based on yes/no questions and clues, if needed. In addition to written clues and yes/no questions, you could also share props.

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Writing Questions Discussions Activities 52

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2025

Part of that may be the ambiguity of the question, and this is a time where we see ESSER dollars have been running out, she says of fall 2024 when the data was collected. Strunk says the 5 percent of teachers who said they wont return to teaching in the fall is normal, but 13 percent saying they were undecided was higher than expected.

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Teachers Intelligence Motivation Writing 133

eSchool News

JULY 20, 2017

Imagine if a teacher said, “Go write on it and see what you come up with,” after a student asked a question. In their pursuit of self-expression, they often find themselves challenged to find new words or motivated to develop academic vocabulary. Rarely do we hear people, even teachers, discuss writing as a process for learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 13, 2025

Whether students step into the classroom or hang out in the counseling office, it’s the perfect time to spark motivation and help them set meaningful goals. Motivate Your Mind : Pair students and have them create motivational posters on half a sheet of paper. Decorate the board with their posters.

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Schools Counselling Math Motivation 98

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future. The Motive It is unknown whether Ruiz intended to cheat in New York or if the opportunity merely presented itself and she took it.

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Academic Integrity Learning Assignments Feedback 92

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 7, 2025

” Answer their question without saying a word when you display the learning standards and goals for the lesson you’re about to teach. Have backup plans, sub plans, differentiated materials, lessons that address all learning types, and endless discussion questions to use up those last five minutes before the bell.

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Grades Teaching Teachers Teaching Philosophy 52

Teaching with a Mountain View

JUNE 19, 2025

Classroom Management and Student Engagement Teach Like a Pirate – A motivational guide to help teachers bring creativity, passion, and engagement into their classrooms. said this title helped her “ connect with the heart of teaching and motivation.” Click here to browse the titles on Amazon (affiliate link).

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Reading Skills Teachers Classroom Management 59

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 3, 2025

Students won’t know your routines yet, so transitions will likely take longer than you think, questions will pop up when you least expect, supplies will take longer to put away, etc. Think about questions you can ask peers later based on their words! Be sure they know to greet one another with eye contact and a fist bump or handshake.

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Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

You can also hang up motivational posters, a calendar, a daily schedule, and current anchor charts to further set the tone for your homeschool space and really immerse your students in their learning. For example, you might decide to start your day with daily question slides or creative thinking journals.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

Four Corners | Music Edition: Icebreaker, Body Break or Timekiller By PrimaryJuniorPassions Grades: 2nd-8th This musical four corners activity comes with 31 ready-to-go questions on Google Slides, plus blank slides you can customize to fit your class. Just pull it up, play, and let the music-themed movement begin.

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Activities Elementary School Elementary School Students 52

Teacher Toms Blog

JULY 16, 2025

We were embracing this radical idea that, through play, through their self-selected activities, the children in our care were learning to be self-motived, to work well with others, to be critical thinkers, and, most of all, to love learning. This is the motivation behind Teacher Tom's Play-Based Learning Summer Camp.

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Motivation English Questions Writing 90

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She guided me in designing exam questions that challenge critical thinking and reflect real-world application. Joy and Motivation One of my greatest sources of daily encouragement is my son. His love, his kind words, and his constant support fuel my motivation and joy. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

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Cal Matters

JUNE 25, 2025

Some questioned whether they even belonged on a college campus, said UC Riverside Dean of Students Christine Mata. Maintaining motivation to graduate One challenge to keeping students in college comes from the regional job market, Boyd-Davidson said. Tradition is the backbone of campus culture.”

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Math English Lecturing High School 89

Faculty Focus

JUNE 12, 2025

She guided me in designing exam questions that challenge critical thinking and reflect real-world application. Joy and Motivation One of my greatest sources of daily encouragement is my son. His love, his kind words, and his constant support fuel my motivation and joy. Her belief in my abilities helped me believe in myself.

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Beliefs Education Motivation Failure 98