ED Surge

JUNE 19, 2024

Research supports the efficacy of inclusive design in improving educational outcomes. Look for apps and programs that cover key concepts and skills taught in early elementary grades, such as phonics , early literacy , basic math skills and foundational science concepts.

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Cool Cat Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Understandably, kindergarten and elementary teachers need to reach every student where they are on their learning journey, but it isn't always easy. Episode 793 - The 10 Minute Teacher Podcast How to Differentiate Math Instruction in the Elementary Classroom Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson. eSpark is free forever for teachers.

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Cool Cat Teacher

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Furthermore, I give parents the research on why their involvement is so important for children to learn to read and some tips on what they can do to help their children read. This episode dives deep into what makes reading instruction effective, offering tips that are practical, research-backed, and impactful for both teachers and parents.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 7, 2025

With Kindergarten Readiness on the Decline, Some Districts Try New Interventions By Emily Tate Sullivan Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. They have underdeveloped social-emotional and fine motor skills.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. But the researcher says he has heard from hundreds of teachers who have reported improvements in test scores. How did that go? Can we get more students thinking?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Keara Phipps, an elementary school teacher from Atlanta, says that TeachFX showed her she “talked too much” in her classes. Her application is called TalkMoves, and a version of Jacob’s research is now being used by the tutoring company Saga Education to train first-time tutors. These observations generated by AI can take quick effect.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2025

Hardwired to Like Likes One of the reasons young people have a tough time unplugging from social media is that their brains are driven by dopamine, says researcher Laura Marciano. Marciano is a research associate at the Harvard T.H. Theyre not allowed at all on elementary and middle school campuses.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Here–briefly–is a summation of the research: 1 Why Learn Keyboarding. Besides what research tells us, you see the benefits just by watching kids use computers. Some researchers maintain keyboarding is too abstract for immature brains and too demanding of undeveloped fine motor skills. Research varies on this topic.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Thats according to a survey of 700 elementary and middle school teachers by Study.com, an online learning platform, that queried educators in January about student achievement. Forty-six percent of teachers surveyed named lack of family prioritization of academics as the primary reason some students have fallen behind.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In fact, there is a great deal of research support for consistent retrieval practice and self-testing to build automaticity with number facts. In fact, elementary school educators have some of the highest levels of math anxiety compared with other fields of study. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

So when it comes to research, are you still directing kids toward your grandmother’s resources — encyclopedias, reference books, and museums? This is a great primary source for students third grade and up in researching almost any topic, but especially history. Students 9-13 may prefer the younger-oriented, Fact Monster.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

A graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in elementary education, Hensons career spans multiple grade levels and roles across Texas: teacher, instructional coach, principal and associate superintendent in various districts. One persistent challenge is that research, while invaluable, is ever-changing.

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

According to new research from Project Tomorrow and Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, large print books can improve students reading achievement levels and attitudes toward reading. elementary, middle and high schools, and the results were striking.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 2, 2024

Elementary Research on the Internet Provide a list of websites on a topic, specific questions on a worksheet to answer, citation sheets to complete. Every student can find something they’ll like on these websites. Online Spelling Practice. Use www.spellingcity.com to practice spelling words, site word or Dolch words.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

Research is foundational to sustaining and expanding access to all students. We engage in several research-practice partnerships to learn what works and how to overcome barriers to spread and scale techniques and innovate when needed. STEM+CS instruction will always be bringing new technology into the K12 classroom.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Although it’s not as obviously contentious as say, social studies, educators and researchers (not to mention students and families) have strong feelings about math instruction (remember New Math ? Poor teacher support and inadequate training, researchers suggest, may be contributing. Or even newer math ?)

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

These are great for all ages to not only read but research topics that might have been well-covered years ago but not so much now (like primitive tribes). Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

“These risks are particularly acute for adolescent girls, who have a short window of opportunity to get back to school before they are forced to take a different path — including marriage or migration for work,” researchers write. One of those researchers is Cassandra R. In the U.S.,

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not lost upon me that schools are complex organizations with a wide variety of experiences, yet there were many similarities shared among my peers who co-created the healing circles with EdSurge Research and the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Research by Barbara C. Professor of public health and African American Studies David R.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2023

It’s 7:00 am, and I’m on my second trek from my car to our centralized district meeting space, lugging snacks, supplies and chart paper as I prepare to lead a workshop on best practices for technology integration for a group of 15 elementary teachers in my district.

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Cool Cat Teacher

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

If you’re in elementary school, this tool is a win for you; the kids will love it. WORD Force is a research-based early literacy course that is free for teachers. Parents will too! Sign up for WORD Force EVERFI sponsored this post. All opinions are my own. What Reading Skills Does WORD Force Teach?

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2024

It focused on absences in early elementary school, between kindergarten and second grade. According to the research report, “teacher perceptions of students’ academic abilities can influence outcomes and can indeed shape teachers’ behaviors towards those students.” Why does that matter?

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ED Surge

JUNE 20, 2024

We know that research shows that there needs to be more conversations about student learning, behaviors, engagement,” Lim says. Past research that TalkingPoints undertook on its app use in a large urban school suggests that the approach can work, Lim says. At the elementary level, it was 19 percent.

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JULY 24, 2024

For example, when preparing a project, a fifth grader will do the research using the internet, collaborate with classmates on Google, write the report with a web-based tool, share it using digital tools, and then use those learned skills in other classes.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. Studying Preservice Teacher Motivations Previously, researchers have primarily looked at in-service teacher motivations. Yet noble individuals press forward and choose to educate our children anyway.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Education Galaxy supports math, reading, language arts, and science at the elementary level (K-6). This combination of reward and reinforcement has been proven to be highly effective with elementary school learners. Education Galaxy provides online assessment, practice, and instruction in a highly engaging environment for students.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. As I reflected, I found myself wondering aloud what it would be like leading an all-girls elementary school as a masculine-presenting queer woman.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2022

And more than that, vilifying SEL will likely only move education in the wrong direction, educators and researchers say. And then as you get a little bit older, into later elementary grades like fourth or fifth grade, you expand on that learning, right? I lead our research department, so of course we're very data-driven.

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Carly and Adam

JANUARY 16, 2025

Developing an effective STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) curriculum for elementary students is crucial for fostering critical thinking, creativity, and problem-solving skills. How Do You Build an Elementary STEM Curriculum?

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User Generated Education

JULY 12, 2020

I am planning to do anti-racist activities with my elementary students (5th and 6th graders) this coming fall. After doing some more research about their selected young person, they write an I Am poem from the perspective of that person. You’re deliberately teaching them that all the racial groups are equals.

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Cool Cat Teacher

MARCH 31, 2022

Today’s guest researcher, Dr. Michael Rousell, studies the neuroscience of surprise and has some interesting points for educators and presenters. Hypnotic conditions: Are they present in the elementary classroom? I taught at the elementary, middle, and high school levels. 2019, June 14). Medium; Age of Awareness.

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. When I looked for research on the effectiveness of SEL in impoverished neighborhoods serving Black and Latino students, I found limited data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 19, 2023

These are great for all ages to not only read but research topics that might have been well-covered years ago but not so much now (like primitive tribes). Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. You can read them online, on a mobile device, or download them.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 14, 2021

These are great for all ages to not only read but research topics that might have been well-covered years ago but not so much now (like primitive tribes). Elementary and middle school children can read the books or have them read aloud to them. TumbleBookLibrary is a curated database of over 1100 elementary age ebooks.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Across the country, elementary school teachers and leaders report that children are entering kindergarten worse off than their peers of the past. Many educators and researchers, in interviews, point out that these developmental differences may not all be a result of the pandemic and the lower rates of preschool enrollment that followed it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. In my district, for example, elementary students spend an average of 300 hours a year engaged in arts-based instruction including music, visual art, theater and movement.

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