Remove Blended Learning Remove Classroom Remove Professional Learning Remove Student Engagement
article thumbnail

Offline Choice Boards: How Are You Integrating Offline Learning into Your Online Class?

Catlin Tucker

As an advocate of blended learning, I want teachers to strive for a healthy balance of online and offline tasks as students engage in distance learning. If you want to create an original offline choice board to use with your students, make a copy of the template below and come up with your own activities.

article thumbnail

20 Ways to Personalize Your Learning This Summer

The CoolCatTeacher

Blended Learning In my opinion, the best 21st-century classrooms are “bricks” and “clicks,” blending together the best of face-to-face and online. Blended learning is not new. Blended Learning Classrooms are made of “bricks’ and “clicks” and every teacher should be ready.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Will Existing Mental Models Threaten Post-pandemic Progress in Education?

Catlin Tucker

Much of that time has been focused on how to teach in online or blended learning environments. However, to make significant and sustainable long-term changes in education, our perceptions of what teaching and learning “look” like have to fundamentally shift to avoid stagnation and make progress.

Education 545
article thumbnail

Assessing the Value of Interactive Whiteboards (IWB's)

A Principal's Reflections

Long gone are the days where the overhead projector reigned supreme in the classroom. In many cases, every classroom is outfitted, as well as conference rooms and professional learning spaces. Many of the devices even come with excellent software packages that can be used to increase student engagement.

article thumbnail

Teamwork Makes the Dream Work—Building a Successful Blended Learning Program

Edsurge

Three years ago, with the help of the education agency the Grant Wood Area Education Agency (GWAEA), Iowa rolled out its initiative to implement blended learning as a model for the state. In a competency based system, students advance upon proficiency and receive rapid differentiated support based on their individual learning needs.

article thumbnail

How to Roll Out Game-Based Learning—and Boost Engagement—in Your Classroom

Edsurge

The first group played games in the classroom at least 50% of the time during the three week unit on Jacksonian Democracy. The control group did not receive any game time and simply learned with standard instructional methods. Student Engagement. In the control group, 58% of teachers reported average or low engagement.

article thumbnail

Update: North Dakota Innovation Academy

Dangerously Irrelevant

Day 3 – student agency and deeper learning, with a strong emphasis on project- and inquiry-based learning; school models that foster deeper learning and student engagement; innovation leaders across the state presented what they’re doing in a PBL showcase.