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Creating Modern Classrooms: 3 Contemporary Approaches to Classroom Design

ViewSonic Education

These guiding principles are reshaping our learning environments around the diverse needs of students, ensuring that everyone feels a sense of belonging and an awareness and respect for the environment. Why not take it a step further? Can we provide lesson materials in diverse, accessible formats ?

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

In mixed-ability groups, peer review is incorporated, allowing students to give and receive feedback, fostering a collaborative learning environment. Writing Support: The teacher provides scaffolding as students begin drafting their essays, offering sentence frames and transitional phrases to help them build coherent paragraphs.

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Would You Rather: Making Meaning

Catlin Tucker

Barriers to Student-led Meaning-Making Whole-group instruction often limits students’ opportunities to interact meaningfully with each other and their teacher, reducing the chances for collaborative learning, peer discussions, and immediate feedback, all of which are crucial for making meaning.

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What Is Your Classroom’s Learning Foundation?

MiddleWeb

For Elizabeth Stein, the foundation that undergirds successful classrooms is student engagement. How do teachers measure the depth of their engagement and reinforce it? Stein shares ideas and resources about curiosity-building, effective feedback and more.

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Here’s the Syllabus for Your Summer Crash Course in Online Education

Edsurge

Care, Communication, Support: Core for Designing Meaningful Online Collaborative Learning ,” by Heather Robinson, Whitney Kilgore, Scott Warren (article), offers insight about communication and collaboration online. Palloff and Keith Pratt (book), provides case studies about building community in online environments.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) draws its inspiration from the broader concept of Universal Design (UD), initially pioneered in architecture. Our focus in this post is on Universal Design for Learning, popularly known by the acronym UDL. What is Universal Design for Learning ? To start with, Courey et al.

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Navigating cultural diversity in American education

eSchool News

Teachers must employ cultural scaffolding to help diverse students use their backgrounds to enhance academic achievement, including collaborative learning opportunities that empower students to participate actively in decision-making processes.

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