eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

Available within Discovery Education Experience, the essential companion for engaged K-12 classrooms, this new content supports instruction in a variety of disciplines including ELA, Math, Social Studies, and Careers Exploration.

Laboratory

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

Interdisciplinary

Faculty Focus

MAY 11, 2025

What college instructors are needed for, he said, is to motivate our students to learn. What we can do as instructors is inspire them to learn the content, to ask their own questions, and to perhaps motivate their AI use to serve their own curiosity beyond the conversations in our classes. Saucier, Ph.D.

Instructors

Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 28, 2025

The Rise of Online Learning Online learning has increasingly become a staple in education, with studies showing that over 30% of students now prefer it over traditional classroom settings. A study from the U.S. Department of Education found that 77% of online students reported a better balance between their studies and personal life.

Hybrid Learning

k12 Digest

JUNE 23, 2025

For instance, at B.School, we designed a cross-subject project around the theme “Our Green Neighborhood,” where students from Grades 3 to 5 explored science (recycling, energy use), math (data collection), and language arts (report writing and public speaking) through hands-on fieldwork and community interviews.

Interdisciplinary

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 12, 2025

This often includes IT classes, science, advanced mathematics and economics or technology, whichever your school offers. By visiting an online course, you can slot the hours you need to study when you have the time. One of the biggest is self-efficacy and motivation.

Lecturing

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

Course Context I teach a required, writing-intensive course for students in their junior year of their undergraduate studies. A qualitative investigation of students’ complex motivations for verbalclassroom participation. In addition to a heavy writing component, there is also a heavy reading component. References Deale, C.

Instructors

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. A big and growing body of research tells us that when we study with retrieval, we learn and remember things much better than we do by other review methods.

Multiple Choice Questions

Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

Researchers have found that learners’ sense of belonging enhances psychological flexibility, learner satisfaction, motivation, and professional identity, thereby increasing student success (Carter et al., Faculty should strongly consider whether their academic space provides the area for learners to study and have meals together.

Evaluation

Teachers Pay Teachers

JULY 25, 2025

College & Career Awareness Bulletin Board By College Counselor Studio Grades: 6th-12th These college and career-focused motivational posters are easy to set up, ink-friendly, and impactful for students. Geometry Word Wall | Geometry Vocabulary By Scaffolded Math and Science Grades: 10th Standards: CCSS HSG-CO-A.1,

Counselling

Faculty Focus

JUNE 8, 2025

Researchers have found that learners’ sense of belonging enhances psychological flexibility, learner satisfaction, motivation, and professional identity, thereby increasing student success (Carter et al., Faculty should strongly consider whether their academic space provides the area for learners to study and have meals together.

Evaluation

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). As in the example below, sometimes sharing progress, such as how far they are in the course, can help students stay motivated and engaged near the end of the semester.

eLearning

Faculty Focus

JUNE 24, 2025

Many studies have looked at ways to ensure the quality of online courses, providing general suggestions for best practices in the online environment (McNeal & Gray, 2021). As in the example below, sometimes sharing progress, such as how far they are in the course, can help students stay motivated and engaged near the end of the semester.

eLearning

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 10, 2025

We tag-teamed – every morning, I taught all the math, reading, and writing, and in the afternoon he would teach science and social studies. We read approximately 5,000 picture books together during snack time, finished 10+ novel studies together, and I even created an entire unit based on going to four different Pumpkin Patches.

Teachers

Teaching with a Mountain View

JULY 3, 2025

After students know the expectations for transitioning (after a few days), I have a student timekeeper time how long each transition takes… there is something SO motivating to them about trying to beat their time, and I love saving all those precious minutes of instruction! To make great observations!

Teaching

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 25, 2025

General education teachers can sneak a little Beethoven into science or roll with bucket drums in math. Whether you’re teaching math, reading, or science, there’s always a way to bring in rhythm, movement, and a little melody to keep things exciting. And these jams aren’t just for music teachers!

Activities

k12

JUNE 24, 2025

One thing that really helps me study that I couldn’t do at my old school is consistently listening to music. However, my coolest high school classes are probably my forensic science course, my 3D animation course, and my practical math course, which teaches me how to complete important life math like filing taxes and understanding credit.

Schools

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. But a few years ago, I removed the slide. This perspective is not inherently bad.

Teaching

Faculty Focus

JUNE 29, 2025

I offered students a chance to ask about my education, experience in finance, the time I lived and studied in Paris, or how I ended up teaching at a community college. It can be constructive, motivating, and well-meaning in certain contexts. But a few years ago, I removed the slide. This perspective is not inherently bad.

Teaching

eSchool News

MAY 15, 2025

Weakleys third through eighth graders are more than half a grade ahead of where they were at the same time in 2022 and about a third of a grade ahead of 2019, according to a national study of academic recovery released in February. Yet studies of double-dose math show mixed results. Her encore teacher was very hands on, said Rhodes.

Testing

Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 2, 2025

The slides include both psychology-specific and social-emotional prompts, including prompts about motivation and emotion, states of consciousness, and developmental psychology. 19 Longer Journal Writing Prompts for High School For a deeper dive into your students thoughts, assign longer journal prompts for high school.

High School

Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

The university will also require mandatory student training on antisemitism awareness and endow a chair of Jewish studies. Leora Feinsmith, a junior at Cal Poly studying public health, supports Armstrong’s efforts. Armstrong reported during the testimony that the number of Jewish students at the campus has doubled since 2011.

Questions

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Vincent College's Fred Rogers Center for Early Learning and Children’s Media to study interactions between teachers and students through the use of technology.

Learning

eSchool News

MAY 30, 2024

Key points: Probeware helps connect students to in-depth learning opportunities Black students need more STEM career exposure 5 helpful hacks for managing a STEM classroom For more news on science learning, visit eSN’s STEM & STEAM hub Are you looking for effective ways to integrate three-dimensional learning into your science classroom?

Science

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Well-intended computer science initiatives are often met with reluctance and resistance before they even get off the ground. To ensure a smooth transition to teaching computer science, campus and district leaders will need to empower teachers with ownership of the change, versus simply asking them to comply with it.

Science

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

And yet, adults regularly set out to study a second (or third, or fourth) language. So programs intended to make that process easier and faster are tapping into the science of motivation to improve their methods. That’s the kind of question asked by researchers who study motivation.

Motivation

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

In the following, you will conduct an interview with a human respondent to find out the participant’s motivations and reasoning regarding their voting choice during the legislative elections on June 30, 2024, in France, a few days after the interview.”

Study

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In recent years high schools across the country have been adding computer science courses, and there is a movement to make them ubiquitous. It’s not surprising in some ways,” says the lead researcher on the study, Jing Liu. But we need the numbers so we can show it concretely.” “But we need the numbers so we can show it concretely.”

High School

Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

With school back, let’s talk about the most efficient ways to study. With increasing coursework and extracurricular activities, a structured approach to studying helps manage time effectively, reduces stress, and boosts learning outcomes. For example, you could find a selection of study material at Studocu that you can utilize.

High School

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Using Claim-Evidence-Question at the Elementary Level Literature Analysis: After reading a story or book, students make a claim about a central theme or main character’s motivations, provide evidence from the text, and pose questions about the main idea or character.

Questions

eSchool News

JULY 10, 2024

In this new phase of partnership, students in grades K-8 will this year return to classrooms that feature innovative science lessons powered by Science Techbook for Texas by Discovery Education.

Science

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Science Labs and Experiments: Scientific inquiry and experimentation involve forming hypotheses, conducting experiments, collecting data, and drawing conclusions. I’ve even constructed entire units of study in a playlist to allow students to move through it at a pace that works for them.

Teachers

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

If I’m honest, there are three clear reasons that initially motivated my decision to assign homework every night: 1) I never had enough time to cover everything in class, 2) I believed students needed to learn to manage their time outside of class and develop important study habits, and 3) I was assigned homework in high school.

Assignments

eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Key points: Relevancy has great power in math instruction Reaching peak engagement in K-12 science education Helping science-averse teachers integrate STEM and literacy For more news on STEM subjects, visit eSNs STEM & STEAM hub How much longer will we keep trying to solve our nations dismal math proficiency problem by writing new math problems?

Math

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The benefits of student agency Students are more engaged and motivated. Besides allowing students to pursue topics that interest them, the sense of ownership and autonomy that student agency provides is very motivating in itself. As Pink writes in the book: “Control leads to compliance; autonomy leads to engagement.”

Students

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

“Several empirical studies have confirmed that students in gamified learning environments achieve higher levels of motivation and cognitive engagement compared to those in traditional classroom settings” (Dehghanzadeh et al., Ive used Gimkit for math and science review. Ive seen this firsthand!

Gamification

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2025

In one study , 92.6 Research shows that integrating probeware in STEM instruction boosts student motivation, particularly in subjects that are often perceived as difficult or abstract. A version of this blog post originally appeared on Vernier Science Educations blog and is reposted with permission. Supports all students.

STEM