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Learning Through Play Is Powerful – and Students and Teachers Agree!

eSchool News

It is a powerful tool for teaching that naturally engages students in the learning and builds the skills they’ll need in and outside the classroom like creativity, communication, critical thinking, and collaboration. Once you see students engaged and learning through play, it clicks and the question goes from how to how do we add more?”

Survey 89
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If We Listen, Students Will Lead Education Research and Development

Edsurge

Student disengagement in writing at the secondary level is a pervasive challenge school districts face nationwide. Many students perceive writing as formulaic, disconnected from their life experiences and lacking opportunities for personal agency and expression.

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Student Engagement Still Low in U.S. Schools

Reading By Example

I don’t often repost other bloggers’ content, so when I do… Scott McLeod shared on his blog survey results from Gallup about the level of engagement in learning that secondary students are experiencing. The latest results are available from the annual Gallup poll of middle and high school students.

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How teacher voice can improve professional development

eSchool News

At Farmington, we have collected feedback from students, families, teachers and staff using stakeholder surveys for many years. Our goal is to ask questions and gather data in ways that let us use stakeholder voice to influence and impact district work. We know that anecdotally and from stakeholder surveys.

Survey 40
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As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

The Hechinger Report

Yet “even as they teach their students to back up their claims with evidence, they don’t have much evidence to back up those claims.”. Only 42 percent of alumni in a nationwide survey strongly agreed that they were challenged academically in college. The Spellings Commission found evidence that “the quality of student learning at U.S.

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Use these 5 strategies to boost student engagement

eSchool News

This year’s 9th most-read story focuses on instructional strategies for better student engagement. Student engagement has long been an indicator of growth and progress, and in the wake of the pandemic, it will prove essential for academic and social-emotional recovery. 1: Teacher-student relationships.

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5 instructional practices that drive student engagement

eSchool News

Student engagement has long been an indicator of growth and progress, and in the wake of the pandemic, it will prove essential for academic and social-emotional recovery. Recent insights pulled from a survey of more than 2,000 identifies instructional practices that enable student engagement, no matter the learning environment.