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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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

JULY 14, 2020

This, after all, is the concept of Universal Design for Learning (UDL), a framework that aids curriculum designers and educators in ensuring that all learners receive the accommodations that are needed to help them excel in school. UDL was an offshoot of a movement that promoted universal design in architecture and product development.

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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. You can learn more about universally designing blended learning to give students more agency in my book UDL and Blended Learning or by taking my online, self-paced courses.

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Strategy UDL Blended Learning Video 543

Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

This works particularly well for a series of stations designed to help students review key vocabulary, concepts, or skills before an assessment. Teachers may also use formative assessment data to identify a “must-do” station for each student and ask them to start the rotation at their “must-do” station.

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

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2023

It entails individualized education plans (IEPs), differentiated instruction, and universal design for learning (UDL) to meet diverse needs. Regular assessment, flexibility, and a culture of respect for diversity contribute to successful inclusion, ensuring that all students have the opportunity to thrive.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is thought to be the solution to the above problem. There are three basic principles to UDL , and before we go on to the part about how to apply it in the classroom, these principles need to be highlighted. UDL provides multiple means of representation. This answers the WHAT of learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Despite my familiarity with all of the ISTE Standards, I have found that I am thinking much more deeply about the ISTE Standards for Educators as I go through this process with my cohort (which I appreciate)… One of our activities asked us to reflect on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

I thought I had a pretty good handle on universal design for learning (UDL), but after chatting with Katie Novak , Ed.D., Novak, author of UDL Now! Q: What exactly is UDL, and why does it matter? The UDL framework starts with the belief that every student is different and that’s the norm. Q: Can you give me an example?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2024

Utilizing the AiiCE tenets , which recommend taking approaches that are responsive to student identities (Alliance for Identity-Inclusive Computing Education, 2023) we will suggest steps towards inclusive education pedagogy with Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and generative AI thought partners. UDL and the learning brain.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

assess success at completion. You can watch the video, rewatch, submit assignments and assessments when you’re ready. All classes follow an easy-to-use course design: establish goals–what students will learn by the end of the class. provide a clear module-based learning path culminating in a ready to use action plan.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

UDL and Opportunity Youth. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will want to use pre-assessments, diagnostics, and/or assess prior knowledge to identify where each student is in relation to the content at the heart of the playlist. In addition to using data to design the playlist, it is essential to build mechanisms into the playlist to collect formative assessment data.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Inclusive educators often use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to provide students with consistent access to engaging content and effective paths for achieving educational goals in classrooms where they experience a greater sense of belonging. The first principle of UDL invites teachers to use “multiple means of representation.”.

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Neo LMS

JULY 13, 2021

For this to occur, online education has to follow the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) standards, addressing learning barriers while providing multiple modes of engagement. Read more: Applying Universal Design for Learning in remote classrooms. 5 Digital tools for an inclusive virtual classroom. Explain Everything.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

Inclusive educators often use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to provide students with consistent access to engaging content and effective paths for achieving educational goals in classrooms where they experience a greater sense of belonging. The first principle of UDL invites teachers to use “multiple means of representation.”.

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UDL Accessibility Video Training 92

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments. As students prepare for an assessment, create a board with activities that target key vocabulary, concepts, and skills. Designing Choice Boards.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

Evaluate: Assess the Effectiveness. Check out my newest book UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes ! They will all experiment with a specific teaching technique, strategy, or instructional model to see how well it addresses the issue at the heart of their inquiry cycle. Looking for a summer read?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

More from Edmentum If you're looking for more personalized learning programs, check out Edmentum's full suite of K-12 evidence-based assessments and digital curriculum and see why almost a million educators in the U.S. partner with us. 6) Webinar—Blended Learning: Which Model Works For You?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. Helping students review for an exam often takes the form of a study guide or review game.

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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. I am excited to announce the launch of a new video series on YouTube called “Virtual Coaching.”

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

Differentiated Learning Needs: In a class with diverse skill levels, a teacher uses assessment data to identify critical areas where individual students need extra support. Preparation for an Assessment: To prepare for upcoming tests or assessments, must-do stations provide practice and support in areas where data shows students struggle.

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Assessment Data Blended Learning Strategy 342

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

It provides teachers with invaluable formative assessment data, allowing them to informally assess student understanding and identify misconceptions, gaps, and areas that need additional instruction and support. What are some different methods for assessing my students’ understanding of in grade?

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Not only will this save teachers time, but it will engage students in the valuable process of looking through their notes and materials to identify important concepts, strategies, processes, and skills they believe they will need to know to perform successfully on an assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Instead of collecting homework or practice activities and grading that work for accuracy, teachers can encourage pairs or small groups of students to spend time assessing their work using an answer key or exemplar and rubric.

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Classroom Blended Learning Groups Assessment 506

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

One of the key elements of the curriculum-design approach known as Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is student engagement — creating opportunities for students to become engaged and stay motivated, to believe that what they’re learning is important, and to feel capable in their learning. Among the many action points in UDL Now!

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Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2020

But now that so many students are taking courses remotely, in improvised environments that may not be especially conducive to learning, it may take some extra effort to redesign instruction, assignments and assessments to address everyone’s needs. And most of them have been willing to compromise and think about other ways to do assessment.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

They demonstrate the efficiency and simplicity with which these tools generate lists of questions, create quick assessments, and plan lessons or entire units. Scrolling through Instagram or TikTok, I see endless videos of teachers sharing AI-powered tools. I can appreciate the excitement since lesson planning is a time-consuming endeavor.

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Hapara

JANUARY 10, 2024

UDL: The foundation of personalized learning Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is the backbone of personalized learning, advocating for multiple means of representation to accommodate the diverse ways learners perceive and comprehend information. This approach is essential for inclusivity, recognizing that learners’ needs vary.

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ET Magazine

JANUARY 15, 2025

Universal Design Learning (UDL) is a way of teaching that fits with e-learning to gain new perspectives and engage in group problem-solving. But why is this pairing of e-learning and UDL so important? What is UDL? What does UDL through e-learning look like? The impact of this approach, grounded in UDL, is significant.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

As someone who regularly works with teachers on topics like blended learning, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and student-led learning, one recurring theme I encounter is control. This begs the question: Why don’t we trust our students? With classrooms overloaded with students, this is a recipe for burnout.

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Edsurge

JULY 21, 2022

The concerns you have about assessing creative work seem to reflect an important (I would even say necessary) ethic you are attempting to live up to in your teaching. Corinne Gressang, assistant professor of history at Erskine College, had similar concerns about assessing student work in her history course.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Then they can provide students with time in class to work on their own, with a partner, or as part of a group to engage in this self-assessment. Instead of dragging stacks of literal or digital practice and review home to grade, teachers can give students an answer key or a strong exemplar with a simple rubric. What did they do well?

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The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2021

These projects are created around Understanding by Design (UbD) principles to emphasize STEM education and have tools to help students customize, evaluate, assess and create portfolios. Defined Learning makes using project-based content easy to bring into any subject. Each project is organized around real-world examples making it relevant.

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EdTechTeacher

APRIL 18, 2019

As we look to the how of this seemingly daunting task, we should consider the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework, which provides a blueprint for creating instructional goals, methods, materials and assessments. . UDL Framework from CAST. UDL can help meet the needs of the widest range of student variability.

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Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

Aliza Strassman , a second-grade general education teacher, leveraged the educational technology specialist at her school and her knowledge of best practices under Universal Design for Learning (UDL, a framework for designing inclusive classrooms) to create a technology-based approach to creative writing, publishing and peer feedback.

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