The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 15, 2020

Research around the pedagogy of effective blended learning will help you understand how to effectively combine your physical classroom and your online classroom. Creating a Highly Engaging Lesson Plan “In this course, you will examine how to develop and execute highly engaging lesson plans regardless of what grade or subject you teach.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2024

/PRNewswire/ — IXL , the award-winning personalized learning platform used by 16 million students, announced that the Virginia Department of Education has approved the IXL Diagnostic as an alternative assessment to the Virginia Growth Assessments.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2020

” I immediately thought about all of the teachers who are preparing to start the school year online and wondering how to structure their online time with students. A routine can provide clarity for the teacher about how to plan for synchronous sessions as well as provide consistency for the students.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

How to Navigate the Needs of (M)any Student(s) So All Paths Lead to Learning. For more on precision differentiation, check out the infographic, How to Navigate the Needs of (M)any Student(s) So All Roads Lead to Learning , and the eBook, Differentiating Instruction for Acceleration and Equity. Source: Achieve3000.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 19, 2020

2 – Designing Online Assessments As you assess learning online, you’ll want to use the research-based best practices for online assessments. Feedback using your formative and summative assessment tools is also essential. Check out Designing Online Assessments for Students — a course that can help you in this area.

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Neo LMS

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

They need to learn how to get better at their job and juggle all the new requirements that the modern classroom and educational technologies bestow upon us. Read more: How to succeed with online PD for teachers. Actionable advice for school leaders on how to create an effective teacher training program. Be flexible with PD time.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Understanding Our Students’ Needs When I work with teachers to design learning experiences that strive to meet students where they are in their individual learning journeys, the first item on the agenda is pre-assessments. Before diving into the unit, he administers a pre-assessment to his diverse class of 30 students.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

That means they need to be able to flex their metacognitive muscles by setting goals, tracking and monitoring their progress, reflecting on their learning, and assessing their own work. Students will learn how to be valuable resources for each other when it comes to feedback and collaboration.

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EdTechTeacher

AUGUST 7, 2023

In a recent article, Canadian researchers identified the greatest challenges to implementing effective differentiated instruction in the classroom. Topping the list were teacher workload , lack of time , the perceived complexity and difficulty of differentiating , and the increasingly diverse needs of individual students 1.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 16, 2020

In this course, you will use a suite of digital tools to make that possible while addressing overarching concepts like digital citizenship, internet search and research, authentic assessment, digital publishing, and immersive keyboarding. Assess student tech use organically. Publish projects in a variety of digital ways.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 13, 2014

Chatting this morning with Stacy Dawes on Voxer in the #ELA Flip group, we were discussing ways in which we can differentiate and diversify our instruction for students, especially those who are ESL/ELL immersed in mainstream classes. Keep in mind that Edmodo quizzes do not have to be used as traditional test assessments.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Read more: Implementing differentiated instruction: the good and the bad. Pre-tests are quick ways to assess ability levels. Once the content has been selected, the next decision the educator needs to make is how to proceed with presenting that content to the class.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 24, 2024

Those who embrace it find the opportunity to differentiate instruction. 70 pages with how to teach everything, including over 40 projects. This is an individual’s online reputation. No longer do we need to teach to the middle student in the class—or, disastrously, to the slowest. The best news is, it’s sustainable.

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 2, 2018

I’ll be co-hosting a panel conversation on how I help kids learn how to personalize their own learning, how we can differentiate instruction, and we’ll have an “old fashioned” tool share at 2 pm in the room.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

In order to meet the unique and individual learning needs of each student, teachers have to find ways to differentiate instruction, and data is critical to doing so. Teachers often have a lot of assessment data at their fingertips, but they have to know how to use it in order to be successful.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

? Listen to an audio version of this post: [link] While edtech tools are in most classrooms, not every educator understands how to use technology in meaningful ways. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. Groups can be based on interest or ability to differentiate instruction.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Read more: How to create accessible e-learning design. Differentiated instruction. Differentiated instruction is a must for them. Read more: Top edtech tools for digital differentiation. Every educator knows that no two students are the same.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When it came to the lesson plan piece, many of my colleagues and I in the Northeastern United States were educated in the Instructional Theory Into Practice Model (ITIP) developed by Madeline Hunter. Stockard, Jean & W.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

2 Use a Quick Quiz to Assess Completion and Comprehension of the Video Instruction If teachers are worried about whether students watched or understood the flipped instruction, they can begin class with a quick formative assessment strategy, like an entrance ticket or quiz. Check out my mini-course!

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

To read more about supporting self-paced learning and keeping students on track, check out my blog titled “ The Art of Self-Pacing: How to Build Playlists that Keep Students on Track.” This also teaches students to hone their self-directed learning skills as they own more of the responsibility for their learning.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 19, 2018

I’ve worked with Study.com in the past and come to realize the high value they place on differentiating instruction and meeting students where they are ready to learn, so when they wanted to share the news of their online class teaching the basics of differentiating in the classroom, they knew I would want to help.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here are a few reasons why: It facilitates differentiated instruction. When edtech comes into play, specifically through a comprehensive solution that allows teachers to create courses online , assess students, track their progress, and communicate with them through the same platform, things start to get interesting.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Even though kids had iPads, parents were not sure [how to use them for class]. In many cases, parent involvement understandably extends to supporting students in taking online assessments. For many adults, assessment was for your grade [when they were in school]. Now it drives instruction. We sent cheat sheets to parents.

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MIND Research Institute

AUGUST 25, 2020

And suddenly I had a huge dilemma, the same dilemma facing virtually all teachers, schools, and districts as they start school - in some fashion - this fall: how do you remedy the fact that a significant number of students, but not necessarily all, have large learning gaps in the math they should have previously learned?

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Neo LMS

APRIL 28, 2020

Once you’re clear on your various roles in the classroom, you can focus on your students and how to make learning relevant for them. Read more: Why teachers should consider differentiated instruction. Teachers should not assume that one way of presenting facts or one way of assessing can be universally relevant for all students.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Strategy #1: Two Teacher Led-Stations – One Differentiated, One Uniform Structure: In this co-teaching model, two teacher-led stations are set up, each focusing on a distinct learning task. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

This month’s question is about how to improve teacher professional development. In my own experience, I remember sitting through a class on differentiated instruction. To further make this point, let’s discuss what differentiation is. Formative assessment can help teachers understand how students are learning.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

Creating the Assessment Data Interoperability Challenge Collaborative. Together with a team of researchers and developers, this group formed the Assessment Data Interoperability Challenge Collaborative. DIFFERENTIATING. INSTRUCTION. COMMUNICATION. MULTI-LEVEL. grouping students and meeting on Data Days).”

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The ideal learning process for a student is one that adapts to that student’s every need: the surrounding environment, the actual content of the lesson, the method of delivery, the types of assessment — and everything in between. With one-to-one instruction not being a viable solution, adaptive learning systems come to the rescue.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 4, 2018

They maximize their learning when teachers know how to integrate existing tech with the latest instructional best practices and strategies. Just like with teaching, integration specialists need to differentiate instruction and support to meet the needs of the teachers. We must support educators on this critical journey.

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User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

More information about how to do this can be found at How to Make a Survey With Google Docs Forms. Poll Everywhere is a live student-response tool that offers whole-class participation and assessment through teacher-designed surveys, polls, and discussion boards. The following video shows how to do a screen share.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2017

We realized combining classes could help us integrate science and math standards, while team-teaching would allow us to differentiate instruction. Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. Here’s how we did it: How smath works.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

2] Whether the evidence points for or against learning styles, however, this theory can remind us that some students may need individualized instruction or resources to best help them learn. Then, we’ll discuss how to best incorporate what the learning styles theory teaches about individualized learning in the classroom.

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Hapara

MARCH 18, 2025

Today, technology is transforming the way students learn and teachers approach instruction, making the K-12 classroom more engaging and personalized than ever. Differentiation and personalization Not all students learn at the same pace or in the same way. Hparas Guide browsing feature allows educators to set up a Focus Session.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 21, 2017

In these 169 tech-centric situations, you get an overview of pedagogy—the tech topics most important to your teaching—as well as practical strategies to address most classroom tech situations, how to scaffold these to learning, and where they provide the subtext to daily tech-infused education. Category: Differentiation.

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Hapara

APRIL 28, 2023

When you teach digital citizenship, you teach learners how to use the internet responsibly. Digital commerce : Teaching learners how to safely make purchases online and discover careers that they can pursue in e-commerce. Digital literacy : Teaching learners how to evaluate online sources and give proper credit to sources.

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