Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

The more physical distance between the teacher and the learner, the more challenging it is to collect formative assessment data consistently. The aspect of teaching that is hard to replicate in the online environment is the teachers’ ability to collect informal data by merely listening and observing. 2 Assess Prior Knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It’s important to communicate with students, parents, and specialists to gather detailed information about their needs. Next, consider conducting assessments to pinpoint areas where technology could make the most impact. Use assessment tools to gather data on their learning styles.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. We must collect formative assessment data in each lesson to understand our students’ progress and respond to their needs. The goals of formative assessment include: Build regular informal assessments into each lesson to collect data.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Efficient Research Skills: Students learn to conduct quick research, enhancing their ability to gather relevant information efficiently. Key Insights Student-Centered Learning: This approach prioritizes student engagement and self-directed research, making learning enjoyable and effective.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Ongoing Review : Revisiting digital citizenship topics each year is crucial for reinforcing knowledge and adapting to new digital challenges, ensuring students remain informed about safe online practices. summarized by NoteGPT This video is from a series I taught for school districts.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

By analyzing vast amounts of data, AI algorithms can uncover patterns and trends that human analysts may miss, leading to more informed and effective strategies. After visiting high school classrooms most of the day, I then debriefed with the leadership team. During a recent coaching visit a modeled how this could be done.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Teachers juggling the concurrent classroom with some students physically attending class and others joining remotely via video conferencing are trying to balance the demands of teaching in two learning landscapes simultaneously. Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Why Would a Teacher Use the Flipped Classroom Model? First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. The flipped classroom was designed to invert the traditional approach to instruction and practice/application.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

.” This is a sentiment I’ve heard repeatedly from teachers navigating the demands of the concurrent classroom. As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. Then we design a welcome task.

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 24, 2021

I put links in Google Classroom to sites that showed how the tool should be used and created a simple multiple-choice quiz using Google Forms. Assessing with multiple choices instead of multiple-choice. Instead of assigning a test with multiple choices, we can give our students multiple choices of assessment. Video assessments.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

This inquiry always prompts me to reflect: How many educators gather pre-assessment data before crafting their lesson plans? Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Effective inclusion in a special education classroom involves creating a supportive environment where students with disabilities are fully integrated into the general education setting. One of the hallmark accommodations of inclusive classrooms is more adults, whether a certified special education teacher, a teaching assistant (TA), or both.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 19, 2021

Sixteen types of games, Google Classroom and LMS compatibility and auto-grading From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter. This week, I began using Educaplay to make fun classroom learning games for my students. This week, I put my word bank in the description in my Google Classroom assignment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

18 Digital Tool Musts in the Classroom This video is from a series I taught for school districts. It is now available for free, here on Ask a Tech Teacher: Summary 18 essential digital tools for classrooms, emphasizing their impact on modern education. Backchannel Devices: Enhance classroom communication.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Watch the Recording Listen to the Podcast Educators want assessments to be instructionally useful and provide data they can use to help students learn, but not all assessments do that. So what do instructionally useful assessments look like? Designing instructionally useful assessments does not have to be difficult.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Upon closer examination, it becomes evident that information, in the form of content, held a central role in all my classes. The routine was consistent: my peers and I would receive information and then be assigned tasks to showcase our comprehension, occasionally even constructing new knowledge.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

Classroom management tools are useful for teachers to create an organized, productive, and conducive learning environment.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Twitter as a classroom resource, you ask? I began using Twitter in my classroom soon after its introduction in 2006. I, like many teachers, liked to promote the excellent work taking place in my classroom so other colleagues could view my students’ work. Classroom Use. How many followers do you have?

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Teachers all over the country are being asked to teach “concurrent classrooms” in which some students attend class in person and others attend virtually. The teacher in a concurrent classroom attempts to meet the needs of the students in class and online simultaneously. Differentiate learning (e.g.,

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2024

After all, one of the hottest topics in edtech these days is the growing practice of banning smartphones in schools, after teachers have reported that the devices distract students from classroom activities and socializing in person with others. There could be upsides in college classrooms, he predicts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

I write down the anticipated student responses to know when I hear what will allow me to assess student understanding. I have built systems in my lesson planning approach that keep me organized because I know I cannot hold all this information in my brain. I reread my lesson plans before I teach.

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ViewSonic Education

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

There are many benefits of technology in the classroom, so we’ve picked five of the most significant for this handy list. Read on for the top 5 advantages to technology in the classroom or visit our education solutions page for more insights on EdTech. Benefit #1: Makes Students More Engaged and Helps Them Retain Information.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

BOSTON – Adaptive learning company HMH today announced HMH Performance Suite –a first-of-its-kind teaching and learning solution that integrates assessment, Tier 1 curriculum and instruction to harmonize K-12 classroom teaching practices on a single platform. Liberty Elementary School in Tulare, Calif.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Among these is the flipped classroom model , a strategy that leverages video instruction to mitigate potential obstacles that make it challenging for students to access information presented live. However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Brochures Trifold brochures are popular for assessing learning on any inquiry topic that expects students to acquire and share knowledge. Fliers Fliers have long been a popular way to distil the important topic information into one concise page. Greeting cards I use greeting cards as formative assessments of student tech skills.

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ViewSonic Education

APRIL 7, 2025

From color-coders and chatterboxes to quiet notetakers and hands-on builders, students absorb information in all kinds of ways. Keep reading for classroom-ready strategies tied to each of the 8 learning stylesor explore how ViewSonic Education Software can support diverse learners today! Thats where the 8 learning styles come in.

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EdTech4Beginners

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Understanding how to get the most out of this technology will enable you to refresh your teaching methods and optimize performance in the digital classroom. Unfortunately, bringing the key information to life can be a drawn-out process that takes teachers away from their core responsibilities. In fact, 91.5%

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Learn How 2.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2023

The education landscape is undergoing a continuous transformation, something I elaborate on in detail in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms. Innovative assessments The changing formats and contexts of assignments have necessitated a corresponding evolution in assessment methods.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2025

Introducing games into the classroom can engage students in ways that conventional methods often fail to do” (Zhang & Crawford, 2023, p. Here are five ways to integrate gamification into your classroom, using tools like Quizizz, Gimkit, Quizlet, and Blooket. While engaging, the free version of Gimkit is quite limited.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases. It can be leveraged to create interactive and immersive learning experiences that can help students stay engaged and motivated in the classroom.

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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

Step into a classroom buzzing with excitement and active participation, and you may just be in an active learning space. So, how can you bring this energy to your classroom design? They can boost motivation, enhance information retention, and improve critical thinking skills. What technology is already in the space?

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Neo LMS

JUNE 28, 2022

Student autonomy in the classroom is essential for efficient learning. Students need to be able to learn at their own pace to better grasp and retain information Self-paced, personalized learning allows them to gradually accumulate knowledge and competencies according to their needs and level. . Flipped classes.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

Teachers know there will be times when they will need to lean on videos to allow students to access information asynchronously. Videos put students in control of the pace they consume and process information. This activity can happen in the classroom or online. Video has several benefits in a blended or online course.

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ViewSonic Education

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The flipped classroom approach is emerging as a popular option within academic institutions, but many high school teachers remain unaware of the best flipped classroom activities to turn to for the in-person lesson component. 5 Suitable Flipped Classroom Activities for High Schools. Case Studies.

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Hapara

MARCH 18, 2025

Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] Classrooms have come a long way since chalkboards, overhead projectors and film strips (remember those?). Today, technology is transforming the way students learn and teachers approach instruction, making the K-12 classroom more engaging and personalized than ever.

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eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

As educators, it is important to understand the underlying causes of this behavior and develop assessments that encourage academic integrity. This lack of relevance can make assessments feel like an obstacle rather than a learning opportunity. Do you support student use of AI in school and/or for assignments?

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