ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Many teachers, already, are looking for ways to use AI to build lesson plans and improve student feedback, Huh says: We know its coming. The goal is for some of AIs earliest adopters in education to band together, share ideas and eventually help lead the way on what they and their colleagues around the U.S.

Education 117

Education Charter School Civics Lesson Plan 117

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

That leaves a small window of time for all of the other tasks and responsibilities that teachers have to juggle, including planning and designing lessons. . Planning is critical to creating meaningful learning opportunities for students. As a result, any tool that streamlines and organizes this work is appreciated.

Tradition 218

Tradition Lesson Plan Middle School Teaching 218

ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. A really good day is when I'm able to complete my lesson plan from beginning to end, when children are catching what I'm bringing in five seconds. Im not a fourth grade teacher, but I teach various levels of maturity and age levels, including colleagues.

Library 106

Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 106

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

If you have favorite tools or lesson planning strategies, please take a moment to post a comment and share them! I caution teachers to embrace a “less is more” mentality to ensure that the volume of work they are assigning is manageable.

Lesson Plan 218

Lesson Plan Tradition Teaching Education 218

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

” Ideally, she says, teachers should have a plan B written into their lesson plans, a next step for what to do for students who show that they aren’t getting it. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it.

Pedagogy 282

Pedagogy Cultures Lesson Plan Library 282

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

In the early stages of designing my station rotation lessons, I was frustrated by the lesson planning process because I found every station built on the station before. I found it helpful to identify the learning objectives for a lesson and write out a traditional linear agenda since that was familiar.

Tutoring 167

Tutoring Lesson Plan K-12 Tradition 167

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 30, 2016

If you are a teacher who has taught in both a traditional 50-minute schedule and a block schedule, I’d love to have you share your experience in each scenario. How did having more time impact your lesson planning? Were you able to incorporate projects, creative assignments, technology, etc. into your shorter periods?

Project-Based Learning 168

Project-Based Learning Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition 168

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 5, 2023

Over time, you might wish to experiment, perhaps replacing the white sugar with brown for a deeper flavor, substituting almond flour for a friend who cannot eat gluten, or opting for a cream cheese frosting instead of the traditional buttercream for a friend who prefers it. This flexibility and freedom to tweak the recipe keep?

Lesson Plan 105

Lesson Plan Tradition Tutoring Library 105

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate.

High School 145

High School Tutoring Lesson Plan Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

“This study shows that a well-designed project-based curriculum might be more effective than traditional instruction.” It’s a lot more involved than tacking on a project to a traditional unit of study by assigning students, for example, to make shoebox dioramas about a book they’ve read.

Project-Based Learning 111

Project-Based Learning Civics Historic Sites Social Studies 111

Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

Unlike traditional textbooks, Studies Weekly removes barriers and allows for a dynamic, interactive approach to learning. [The newspapers] draw students in with their visuals and text features. They can be used in so many wayscutting out pictures, making connections, highlighting key details, and annotating.

Primary Sources 52

Primary Sources American History World History Social Studies 52

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

We’ve loaded it with free lesson plans and resources for teachers, plus a learn tab with videos and guided activities for students to practice on their own. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. It’s about having the right content, support and resources to help everyone use it effectively.

Advocacy 126

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Economics Tradition 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Our nine districts have been considering free or low-cost open educational resources alongside traditional options. As many states adopted new state standards in recent years, educational leaders voiced concerns that traditional publishers had not developed adequately aligned materials.

Lesson Plan 105

Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Middle School 105

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

I also worry about teachers using ChatGPT and other generative AI models to write quizzes or lesson plans. The big question, of course, is whether these ChatGPT’s solutions help students learn math better than traditional teaching. It’s riskier when you’re asking students to learn directly from AI.

Research 139

Research Tutoring Lesson Plan High School 139

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

These quests might be called “assignments” in a more traditional classroom. But Isaacs doesn’t run a traditional classroom — and not just because his students spend most of their time in a fantasy world. But he maintains that teachers of all subject areas can build more student agency into their lesson plans.

Tradition 109

Tradition Lesson Plan Middle School Humanities 109

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

Traditional systems, practices and policies in many cases cater only to general education students. Instead of using traditional methods that are reactive and punitive in nature, we must cultivate systems that view behavior challenges as expressions of social-emotional needs and identify appropriate and effective supports.

Lesson Plan 126

Lesson Plan Professional Development Tradition Leadership 126

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This strategy of tapping into students’ own experiences as part of a lesson plan is an increasingly common one in U.S. schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body. That was Lin-Manuel Miranda’s rationale for his casting.

Cultures 111

Cultures American History Tradition Lesson Plan 111

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Most of the schools where I coach have a wonky Wednesday schedule that I have to navigate with teachers when we co-lesson plan together. Typically, Wednesday is a short day for students because teachers are attending an all-staff meeting in the morning before students arrive or in the afternoon after students have gone home.

Lesson Plan 134

Lesson Plan Tradition High School Teaching 134

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

AR can be used in the classroom to create interactive learning experiences that enhance traditional instruction. Those lesson plans are actually what stood out to my teachers,” adds Dawson, “They felt like the plans provided the support they needed to implement AR in the classroom without a lot of training.”

Lesson Plan 130

Lesson Plan Artifacts Educational Technology Interactive Learning 130

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

Lesson Plan 142

Lesson Plan Private School Cultures Public School 142

Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

Artifacts 139

Artifacts Middle School Advocacy Lesson Plan 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Cierra Kaler-Jones wasn’t your traditional dance teacher. When Kaler-Jones taught dance, her students didn’t come just for the dance lessons. Her classes involved lessons on Black history and women’s history, as well as wide-ranging conversations about was happening in the world. Subscribe today!

Oral History 143

Oral History History Pedagogy Lesson Plan 143

ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Johnson: We have an obligation to think about transforming traditional assignments into something more interactive and problem-solving-based. Using calculators increased mathematical thinking skills, but not just by themselves; there was a lot of really thoughtful pedagogy on when and how to introduce calculators.

Pedagogy 134

Pedagogy Advocacy K-12 Professional Development 134

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

At one table, the conversation turned to the growing pains of changing course from the traditional “sage on a stage” teaching model, where a teacher holds forth at the front of the classroom while students listen, to a student-focused, personalized model. “We Torres, on the other hand, said she misses a more traditional way of learning.

Education 145

Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Trace Pickering, associate superintendent of the Cedar Rapids Community School District, founded Iowa BIG, a district program that gives students an alternative to the traditional school day. I need to build a lesson plan.” Students at Iowa BIG are dramatically stronger than their traditional high school peers in those areas.

Lesson Plan 86

Lesson Plan Tradition Advocacy High School 86

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

This content goes far beyond traditional formats like film, television and print because it isn’t static; it’s both immersive and interactive. And enjoy access to an educator portal with lesson plans, tutorials, activities and other resources.

Teaching 113

Teaching Lesson Plan Library Professional Development 113

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

They create lesson plans and curriculums that are both rigorous and accessible and foster environments in which all students can thrive. They are still struggling. In addition to the current shortage, our teacher-preparation programs report decreased enrollment.

Teaching 118

Teaching Lesson Plan Public School Tradition 118

ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. During one of my social justice blocks, we dedicate a week to the Day of the Dead and its traditions. At first, I was annoyed.

Community Engagement 110

Community Engagement Cultures Social Justice Leadership 110

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2021

The students not only scored 11 percentage points higher on a science assessment but also performed 8 to 18 percentage points better on state math and reading tests than similar students who learned science the traditional way. The positive spillover effects for other subjects are noteworthy.

Project-Based Learning 145

Project-Based Learning Middle School Social Studies High School 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The traditional education system has never worked for students with disabilities, and we could redesign it. It can generate word lists, decodable texts and basic lesson plans. School leaders, especially those who are advocates for students who learn differently, must begin having more strategic conversations about AI now.

Lesson Plan 120

Lesson Plan Tradition Public School Teaching 120

ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

The game does the heavy lifting, while the included lesson plans and student-facing lesson slides make in-classroom implementation turnkey and enjoyable. Preparing a generation of programmers who can think creatively about code and problem solving in non-traditional ways opens up so much opportunity.

Tradition 107

Tradition Lesson Plan Elementary School High School 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

What is clear is that using the extra time for just more hours or more days of traditional instruction doesn’t appear to achieve much. One theory is that lesson plans are built around the current 180-day, six-plus hour schedule. If you lose a day of carefully planned lessons, that’s losing a key building block.

Tutoring 141

Tutoring Charter School Middle School Advocacy 141

ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Some include more traditional vocations like automotive, cosmetology, plumbing and carpentry, while others have expanded to industries including education, computer science, business, biotechnology and health care. The project was simple for me because it came with the guidance like a rubric, a model and examples to help with lesson planning.

High School 140

High School Museum Education History 140

Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Seventeen states have performance assessment legislation on the books, and 11 states mandate the edTPA, developed by the Stanford Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity—a $300 performance assessment that evaluates teaching candidates based on portfolios of lesson plans, student work, and videos of their student teaching in action.

Leadership 114

Leadership Education Policy Lesson Plan Tradition 114

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2019

I was also concerned that they might have questions about its problem-based, discourse-driven approach to learning math, which is quite different from the traditional “stand-and-deliver” model of instruction that most of us grew up with. So, last summer, I created a lesson plan for my first Parent Math Night.

Lesson Plan 109

Lesson Plan Tradition Teaching K-12 109

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Teaching experts say that will mean slowing down to fill in knowledge gaps —detouring from lesson plans, adding extra periods for tutoring, and more. A minute or so in, the lesson foundered — students didn’t remember quadrants, X-axes and Y-axes, concepts that were covered in their middle school math.

Tutoring 134

Tutoring Middle School K-12 Lesson Plan 134

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human. I knew that when I became a history teacher, I would need to share stories that show the joy and nuanced history of Black life.

History 110

History Teaching K-12 Artifacts 110