eSchool News

OCTOBER 12, 2022

As educators, our charge is to impart knowledge onto our students, open new doors for them, and encourage them to stretch beyond their comfort zones. As a physical education teacher in an underserved community, finding ways to connect with my classes during the pandemic and a time of remote learning was challenging.

Problem-Based Learning

eSchool News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The availability of this funding, along with the complex trauma issues brought on by the pandemic–including social isolation, depression and generalized anxiety–have prompted educators to increase their focus on the importance of social-emotional learning (SEL) to address all students’ needs. What is a sensory space?

Students

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 20, 2023

When we asked the Ask a Tech Teacher team to apply it specifically to teaching physical education–not something we usually think of with tech tools–they came up with these great ideas: Using ChatGPT to Revolutionize PE Teaching: 5 Expert Strategies! It is also having an impact on physical education and health.

Teaching

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. series, we will explore how we can provide students with choices that enable them to transfer and apply their learning effectively. In this third and final installment of our “Would You Rather?”

History

Edsurge

MARCH 10, 2020

Since Chinese authorities closed schools to control the spread of coronavirus, the Ministry of Education has called for students to learn at home. Over the past few weeks, educators, students and parents have taken to social media to share their experiences with this abrupt move to online learning. That’s so brilliant!”

Art

eSchool News

JANUARY 21, 2021

How and where our students learn has radically changed over the last 10 months. Students are in a multitude of educational environments that have challenged the entire school community.

Physical Education

eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2025

The NEA encourages teachers to bring physical activity into the classroom by incorporating brain breaks in students daily routines or taking classroom activities outside. A university developed a course that meshes physics lessons with martial arts. Learning and physical activity also work well because of the fun factor.

Technology

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. When students reach high school, research shows that close to 66 percent of students are disengaged. Partitioning content into discrete subjects and courses made the learning boring and the teaching hard.

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

MAY 31, 2024

Key points: Deeper learning helps immerse students in a more engaging education model Redesigning the educational model after COVID Educational leaders must leverage collaboration for success For more news on district leadership, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership hub Today’s students need to develop a broad and well-rounded body of knowledge.

Education

eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2023

Related : 4 tips for using data to differentiate instruction This school year, align teaching strategies with student learning styles. Through middle school and high school, it would anticipate the user’s future needs while also tracking how the student best learns so that content is engaging.

Secondary Education

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2018

Throughout my career, I’ve had the good fortune to work in various capacities as a librarian and with all levels of learners, from kindergarten through doctoral students. where I have the good fortune to be one of three full-time librarians in a school that serves 2,200 students. Attend department meetings to inform and learn.

Physical Education

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection. Vancouver Public Schools (Wash.)

Disabilities

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2021

And will we return to our classrooms to teach in the same manner as we did before COVID? Here’s what they had to say: As many school districts remain virtual or use a hybrid model, teachers are doing everything they can to help students succeed in a distance learning environment, but at some point they will hit a wall and need help.

Distance Learning

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

It’s fair to say that augmented reality has moved from a cool technology that might be neat for students to try to a credible teaching tool that fits just as easily in K-12 classrooms as it does in higher education. “Unfortunately, too much of our education system is structured like virtual reality.

Fairness

eSchool News

JULY 9, 2018

note : App of the Week picks are now being curated by the editors of Common Sense Education , which helps educators find the best ed-tech tools, learn best practices for teaching with tech, and equip students with the skills they need to use technology safely and responsibly. Click here to read the full app review.

Physical Education

Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

At a time when millions of educators have been thrown into remote learning with no formal training, any answer to that question might seem too good to be true. But for now, some experts say to start simple: Take a short online course, for example, to see what students experience.

Online Learning

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The administrators who sign off are thinking about how students will benefit long-term from more support in the classroom. Maybe we know it will support our students and our teachers, so we provide access to it—but that doesn’t mean we're going to provide that district-wide.” Once I went back to the classroom, my voice went away.”

Teachers

EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 19, 2018

These findings have put a fire underneath educators and K–12 organizations to refocus efforts to teach computer science skills. “We Engage Students in Data Science Through Activities. Research conducted by the Bureau of Labor Statistics has found that number could be reached by 2020. At Excel Public Charter School in Kent, Wash.,

Science

eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2016

What this incident demonstrates is a kind of teaching technique that too often is underutilized or even forgotten. Too much of our education system is structured like virtual reality. Unfortunately, too much of our education system is structured like VR. Consider when my son came into my room, professing his fear of bugmen.

Technology

eSchool News

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The Every Student Succeeds Act includes block grants intended for technology, among other uses. Eight years after the No Child Left Behind Act was supposed to expire, Congress finally passed a bill to replace it—the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)—that gives states more latitude in deciding how to close achievement gaps.

Counselling

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

During my eight-year teaching career in Colorado, Ive heard many schools and districts claim they want to develop the whole child. For example, the Colorado Department of Education supports statewide infrastructure and systems to promote a whole-child approach called Whole School, Whole Community, Whole Child.

Middle School

eSchool News

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Not surprisingly, many of this year’s Top 10 focused on student engagement and online or hybrid learning strategies related to pandemic teaching. This year’s 2nd most-read story focuses on the K-12 edtech predictions educators and experts had for 2021–were they right? Michael Arquin, Founder, KidWind.

Hybrid Learning

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2022

They hold those jobs for different reasons—to pay off student debt, to afford an apartment without roommates, to set themselves up to leave teaching for good, to online shop guilt-free, to afford the occasional take-out order—and with varying degrees of necessity. We all know we’re going to have to do more [than teach].

Teachers

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

Education

Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2024

The goal is to improve science literacy among high school students by making lessons meaningful and relevant to their lives through a teaching method called project-based learning. The curriculum also primes students for college and potential careers in science. Department of Education and will last five years.

STEM

Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 2, 2018

Yet all too often, when it comes to touch-typing that is exactly what occurs, students are expected to just ‘pick it up’ as they go along because the work required to develop the skill correctly can be viewed as “unnecessary,” “too time-consuming,” or “artificial learning.”.

Teaching

eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2016

” It is a significant shift in the teaching and learning paradigm. A significant portion of the training should focus on how to change the teaching and learning paradigm. Demonstrating belief in the models for all, rather than just being for school students. Some other aspects of blended learning are specific to a faculty.

Blended Learning

eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Rod Ruth , nominated by Edmentum Aaron Schwartz , nominated by IPVideo Nominee: Cumberland County Public Schools Nominated by: EPS School Specialty For Cumberland County Public Schools, the strategic use of Structured Literacy made all the difference for both students and teachers in addressing disrupted learning due to the pandemic.

Math

Edsurge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Education experts were raising questions and expressing concerns about teaching shortages long before COVID-19 came into the picture, but the pandemic exacerbated the issue. During that period, I continued my duties as a para, ensuring the students I worked with met the goals and mandates of their Individualized Education Plan (IEP).

Teachers

Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2022

Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or what we like to call, Mind, Brain and Education (MBE). Our consistent answer is: “Don’t go back!”

Science

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 17, 2023

When preparing to teach a graduate-level curriculum and assessment in physical education & health education course, we asked ourselves, “What is the best way to teach future educators about curriculum and assessment?” All of this occurred without explaining why students were doing this.

Curriculum

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 17, 2023

When preparing to teach a graduate-level curriculum and assessment in physical education & health education course, I asked myself, “What is the best way to teach future educators about curriculum and assessment?” You have a plan and are teaching us something; we just do not know what yet. “You

Curriculum

Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2016

What can virtual reality, the technology that arguably takes the viewer farthest away from the tangible world, teach students about expressing themselves and interacting with each other? Jose was among the first student to try Emoti, a virtual reality (VR) mindfulness exercise developed with the help of a $3,000 grant from.

Learning

Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

to invest heavily in its public education system, and to the passage of the National Defense Education Act of 1958 (NDEA). That legislation prompted a major shift in our instructional focus that ushered more students toward careers in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Interdisciplinary

eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2015

Conventional wisdom around when and where students learn, what knowledge they need to be successful, and who they are as learners is all rapidly changing, especially as technology becomes more prevalent in classrooms. Many students’ families could not afford computers, or even an internet connection. Vancouver Public Schools (Wash.)

High School

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2024

. “This AI technology enables educators to bring lessons to life in ways previously unimaginable,” Pranav Mehta, CTO and Co-Founder of Prof Jim, said. Lincoln Empowered offers a dynamic array of courses in language arts, mathematics, science, social studies, physical education, and the creative and performing arts.

Education

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 20, 2019

Technology is a natural education fit in everything from math to Spanish to literacy. The one corner of K-12 learning that is not so obvious is PE — Physical Education. In that class, we think of physical stuff — not digital — like running and exercising. But kids love technology’s apps and software.

Teachers