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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

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. As Katie Novak and I write in UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (coming out May 29!),

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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

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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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

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. Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations.

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Using The Station Rotation Model in Math

Catlin Tucker

Shifting From Whole Group to Differentiated Small Group Instruction The primary advantage of the station rotation model in math lies in its structure, which offers teachers dedicated time with small groups. That allows the teacher to provide differentiated instruction, modeling sessions, and support.

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Designing a Standards-aligned Choice Board (with AI)

Catlin Tucker

They ensure students engage with content that aligns with the subject area and grade-level standards. Step 3: Teacher Focus – Decide how you will use this time as students self-pace through the choice board. Teachers may want to pull individual students or small groups for personalized or differentiated instruction and support.

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Part 3: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … Writing Process

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

I do really hope you enjoyed the prior two posts on differentiated instructions tools for reading using technology. Part 2: Tech Resources and Tools for Differentiated Learning … More Reading. I believe that the DI classroom must provide students some self autonomy when participating in the writing process.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Even when connecting at a distance instead of in person, we can all benefit from learning some skills to connect with students on an emotional level, even while delivering classroom instruction. Online Assessment. Assessment must respect learners, provide actionable feedback, and motivate. Look at this course.

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