Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Student agency, or a students’ ability to make key decisions about their learning experience, is an essential aspect of blended learning. Choice boards fall within the umbrella of blended learning when we combine active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

When I ask teachers, “How would you describe a successful online or blended learning course? Encourage self-assessment. Teachers can bring multiple students together for shared tasks on documents, slide decks, drawings, or spreadsheets. What would that look like?” for a unit or text. for a unit or text.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment. Instead, give them opportunities to document their thinking with drawings and art. You can use Screencastify (a new feature ) or Edpuzzle to insert questions into the video itself.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

I regularly work with teachers who like the idea of trying new teaching strategies, blended learning models, and technology tools, but they don’t have the time or energy to experiment. Finally, they have to reflect on their learning and set goals for themselves in their ongoing assessment document or learning log.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. First, I want to encourage every teacher using a blended learning model to clearly explain WHY they are using this model to students and their families.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2017

In January I wrote a blog post titled “ New Year’s Resolution: I’m Moving ALL Assessment into the Classroom.” As my students wrote, I jumped into their Google Documents in suggesting mode and made edits. ” I’m here to update everyone. It’s been amazing! It’s not that my students aren’t writing.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 11, 2020

It is the educators who understand this truth and design and facilitate learning experiences that align with this truth who have had the most success navigating this challenging moment in education. It is ideal if both the teacher and student have access to the planning document during the conference. During the Conference.

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ViewSonic Education

JANUARY 1, 2019

One of these practices is known as blended learning and the term that has been garnering some attention within the education industry as of late. But, what is blended learning? This video offers a good introduction to blended learning if you've never heard the term before. What is blended learning?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

When math teachers ask students to document their reasoning and explain their mathematical thinking, it helps to reinforce their understanding, highlight areas of confusion or need, and document their growth over time. The post Math Journals: Reflection, Documentation, and Deep Engagement appeared first on Dr. Catlin Tucker.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

color-coding, setting reminders, embedding links to planning documents) made it exponentially more effective as a planning and organizational tool. Provides a platform where you can organize calendar events and attach links or documents, so everything you need for your lessons is in one place. Please relax and enjoy your summer.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2020

I have some powerful online interactive workshops and webinars that can be used to engage learning in this new environment. Eamil we and we can talk about a powerful interactive online workshop for educators that models blended learning best practices. Resources to Support the Gold Standards in the Blended Learning Environment.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s exciting to see so many teachers trying this blended learning model and creating opportunities for small group instruction, real-time feedback, collaboration, and differentiated learning. If I grade something, it is an assessment. I don’t grade practice. 10) Mix it up!

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. When teachers engage students at their teacher-led station, they can collect invaluable formative assessment data that can help inform future lessons. #1 5 Quick Assessment & Individualized Support. 5TeacherLed.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

You can upload anything you already have in your classroom, every pdf, every electronic document, or the materials you’ve purchased and add to Lumio. As you can see in the graphic, you have quick exit tickets, self-assessments, speed up games, and more that you can add to your library to easily insert into your lessons.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Focus on Process-based Feedback Process feedback focuses on evaluating and improving the steps, strategies, or techniques that students employ during the learning process. Instead of assessing the end result, process feedback focuses on the journey and supports students as they make progress toward a clear objective or desired result.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

this year I am bound and determined to move ALL assessment into the classroom! Click To Tweet This may sound like a crazy resolution given that most teachers spend hours of time outside of school assessing their students’ work. Real-time feedback and assessment are way more effective.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2019

The flipped classroom was one of the first blended learning models to become popular. Alternatively, teachers can assess students’ prior knowledge with an individual task and collect useful data to inform their follow-up instruction. Over the last ten years, I’ve seen excitement about this model turn to skepticism.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I see this reluctance to experiment all of the time when I am training teachers on blended learning models. We approach feedback and assessment as a team. We design our classes to allow time for informal assessments and one-on-one conversations about individual student performance/progress.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. I’ve suggested that teachers build mechanisms into their lessons to collect formative assessment data. The third piece to this puzzle is a post-lesson reflection.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 23, 2024

” I have the privilege of working with thousands of educators every year who are expanding their teaching toolboxes to include blended learning models , UDL , and student-led instructional strategies. Blended learning models are designed to shift control over key elements of the learning experience (e.g.,

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

questions, assessments, tech used by kids for learning, student work, etc.). I am fortunate to be involved in several long-term projects where I have been able to document growth over time. I again provided feedback both in the form of commendations and recommendations for improvement, specifically when it came to assessment.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

DECEMBER 5, 2014

As 1 to 1 programs become more popular, educators are talking a lot about Blended Learning. As you might know there are plenty of ways to look at Blended Learning. A blended classroom is not an instant event. Hope to see you at the Webinar and I wish you the best as you become even more focused on your blend.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 6, 2020

As a blended learning coach, I spend a lot of time in classrooms observing lessons. Here is a document with 21 questions that teachers can pull from to spark fun conversations at the start of each class. This time could be used to help students to think about their learning and develop their metacognitive muscles.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JUNE 28, 2020

In this series I would like to take the time to share some eLearning and Blended Learning ideas and pose some questions as schools have finished another school session and begin to look at the next year. Planning Blended Learning for another year. Short term and long term goals for Blended Learning.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Those teachers also having Scripture memory or memorization of passages like the Preamble of the Constitution or other important documents, Fill in the Blanks, will save time and encourage memorization even when time is short. The automatic grading feature will save time for teachers who have diagrams that need to be assessed and marked.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 5, 2019

The program covers blended learning and project-based learning. It also helps teachers learn about the “Four Cs” of learning — critical thinking, creativity, communication and collaboration — as well as how to use the substitution, augmentation, modification and redefinition (SAMR) model.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 12, 2024

Today, most teachers opt for a flavor of blended learning: using both multimedia and text to create a more engaging educational experience. For a more expansive offering, teachers can use ChatGPT to create more comprehensive assessments that delve into not just the lessons they’re teaching but the chosen field of academia itself.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

However, the goal of the station rotation model, specifically and blended learning more generally, is to provide students with opportunities for agency , including selecting the questions they choose to answer and working at their own pace. This student encourages others to share and helps to keep the group on task.

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Shake Up Learning

AUGUST 16, 2022

The post Emoji Assessments for Any Classroom – SULS0168 appeared first on Shake Up Learning. In this episode, I’m sharing ideas for using emojis in your informal and formative assessments. Use emojis to create a key to check for understanding, reflect, self-assess, peer-assess, or give feedback!

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 12, 2016

This week I had the pleasure of training a group of elementary teachers on blended learning strategies. Assessment. The example above is a digital choice board I created using a Google Document. Below is a template for a digital choice board using Google Documents. Student choice. Organizing a Choice Board.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. What type of performance-based formative and summative assessment took place? A learning management system can have a tendency to promote a “surface” type of assessment.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Learn From the 2019 HP Spotlight School. You can learn more about William F. Over the next several months, their profile page will document their journey and include virtual tours using 360° videos of classroom instruction. Interested in Reinvent the Classroom and Powerful Learning? Halloran School No.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The primary trends identified by the team were: adaptive learning, open education resources (OER), gamification and game-based learning, MOOCs, LMS and interoperability, mobile devices, and design. But content is not top on your list.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2019

However, an anchor links within the document. I do this an easy way in a long document by making headings. they are a big time saver for students and teaches on long documents, for example, if you’re writing a book. This lets you skip down a long page. Then, insert a table of contents.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

Ta bles But the tables have header rows that your text documents have header styles that allow screen readers to navigate through the document in a way that they can just tap through and skip to the section they need to get to. It will indicate debits, the accessibility level of the document or item, with a little gear indicator.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2020

All of our jobs have shifted so much,” says Michele Eaton, director of virtual and blended learning at the Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township in Indianapolis. “A Because there is so much information that is constantly changing, we go back to our remote learning plan—a working document that houses everything,” she says.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

Back in 2011, I was getting my feet wet with blended learning and experimenting with new pedagogical practices in my geography class. As a result of my recent transition to a blended learning environment and my desire to turn control of learning over to my students, I decided the traditional syllabus needed to be turned on its head.

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