Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Part II: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group to Achieve Equity in Education The first blog in this series, “ Time Efficiency vs. Equity in Education ,” explored two major barriers teachers face when shifting from whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model to student-centered blended learning models.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

Teachers will have more time to interact with and support individual or small groups of students to differentiate instruction, supports and scaffolds, practice, and application. Students will be more interested and engaged because they have more control over their learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Complex Problem Solving: Tasks that involve higher-order thinking and problem-solving, such as math word problems, scientific experiments, or coding projects, often require different amounts of time for students to analyze, understand, and solve. Some groups will work more quickly, while others will benefit from having more time.

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

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Still, teachers are tirelessly putting in their best effort to make distance learning work for their students. I don’t [typically] lean on my parents, but we’ve been leaning on each other a little bit because I have such a young group online. … It’s not in my job description, but I actually really love it.”.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Most math curricula are designed for a whole group teacher-led lesson where the teacher is expected to cover a new concept or process every day. It can be challenging, if not impossible, to meet all those needs with a whole group teacher-led lesson. They also result in several students with a poor or shaky grasp of the material.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Small group learning is absolutely essential today. Students may find it more difficult to participate or think out loud in this environment. But with breakout rooms, educators can improve student engagement, differentiate instruction and give students more voice and choice in their learning outside of a traditional classroom.

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Differentiated Instruction Microsoft Groups Student Engagement 195

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Small group learning is absolutely essential today. Students may find it more difficult to participate or think out loud in this environment. But with breakout rooms, educators can improve student engagement, differentiate instruction and give students more voice and choice in their learning outside of a traditional classroom.

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Differentiated Instruction Microsoft Groups Student Engagement 195

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Small group learning is absolutely essential today. Students may find it more difficult to participate or think out loud in this environment. But with breakout rooms, educators can improve student engagement, differentiate instruction and give students more voice and choice in their learning outside of a traditional classroom.

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Differentiated Instruction Microsoft Groups Student Engagement 195

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Small group learning is absolutely essential today. Students may find it more difficult to participate or think out loud in this environment. But with breakout rooms, educators can improve student engagement, differentiate instruction and give students more voice and choice in their learning outside of a traditional classroom.

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Differentiated Instruction Microsoft Groups Student Engagement 195

Hapara

MARCH 18, 2025

Improved student engagement Classroom technology allows students to learn how they want to learn, piquing their curiosity, boosting motivation and supporting deeper comprehension. Interactive tools like augmented reality and gamified learning apps capture students attention, turning passive learning into an engaging experience.

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Neo LMS

JANUARY 14, 2021

Here are a few reasons why: It facilitates differentiated instruction. Every student has a specific academic background, a unique set of interests and learning needs, as well as expectations of what a great learning experience should be. It improves student engagement.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

K-12 educators are increasingly turning to digital resources to enhance instruction and address student needs. That’s why, in 2019, Discovery Education conducted a comprehensive research study—including a literature review, focus groups, interviews, surveys and an analysis of data usage—across our digital products and platforms.

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Hapara

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Student engagement was the main driver to teaching the learning outcomes, and Heather helped educators do this with technology. Read on to learn how to use technology in the classroom to truly engage students. Educators can also quickly create groups in Workspace and assign content and activities to specific groups.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Practice Guided practice is when the students engage in learning target activities under the guidance of a support system that can assure success. Pedagogical techniques such as personalized, blended and project-based learning as well as differentiated instruction and student agency can lead to greater ownership amongst learners.

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Neo LMS

JULY 2, 2019

This means students work individualized activities in themed stations according to their needs. When doing so teachers have different pathways they can use in the learning process: Simple sequence — creating beforehand stations for groups of students to rotate to, managing all the activities in order.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 30, 2023

Blended learning seamlessly weaves together online and in-person learning experiences to boost student engagement and meet the unique needs of a diverse class by providing flexible pathways through learning experiences. For example, students who have mastered the basic concepts could be given more challenging real-world word problems.

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The Web20Classroom

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Carol Ann Tomlinson said it best: “At its most basic level, differentiation consists of the efforts of teachers to respond to variance among learners in the classroom. Differentiation isn’t just something that some students need or some teachers have to do, differentiation is responsive teaching and a part of every classroom.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

spend more time working in small groups with students. more effectively differentiate instruction. Unfortunately, it’s rare to see students engage in play at school after they’ve left elementary school, but secondary students need this time too. make the most of our limited technology.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

By integrating choice boards, we put students in the driver’s seat, allowing them to control the pace and path of their learning experience. Simultaneously, choice boards free teachers to focus their time and attention on working with individual students or small-group instruction, providing more personalized support or challenge.

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Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2024

Esports offers incredible benefits for student engagement, community and skill building, and pathways to higher education and job opportunities. In the United States, there are over 15,000 esports teams in K-12 schools, and many esports teams and programs emphasize access to students with disabilities.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they integrate culturally relevant pedagogy, differentiated instruction, and varied assessments to highlight Black brilliance in mathematics. With 1:1 computer access for grades 3–8, students engage in coding, inquiry-based learning, and critical thinking beginning with Kindergarten.

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Edsurge

MAY 4, 2021

had rituals and traditions that defined our school culture and aimed to bring a holistic approach to learning, like having students work in small groups and encouraging office hours with teachers. Student engagement was falling off as well. In math, students have manipulatives and group projects.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 2, 2024

This approach aims to keep students engaged and actively involved in their learning process. It includes components like differentiated instruction and step-by-step writing guides to make lessons more accessible and effective. Classroom Focus : Initially, the writing curriculum is intended for classroom use.

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Educate AI Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Student Level: Equity means providing access to AI tools that are adapted to individual needs , including students with disabilities, English language learners, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. reading level assignments, course recommendations) are they equitable across groups? unique codes).

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Hapara

MAY 20, 2022

The Google G Suite tools lend themselves seamlessly to student collaboration because they allow users the opportunity to contribute and edit a shared Google Doc, Slide and Drawing, for group projects, and the teacher can even access the document in real time to make commentary and feedback. Provide feedback in real time.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

“A one-size-fits-all instructional approach doesn’t work in a classroom where every student brings their own unique learning style. More than ever, personalized learning is critical in getting students engaged and motivated to learn and supporting academic growth,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

A group of six teaching institutions, which include University of North Carolina – Charlotte and University of Missouri – St. Louis, is trying to change that and add more research-driven insights in professional instruction. One common misunderstanding, according to the report, is mistaking student engagement for learning.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Science is full of abstract and complex concepts that become concrete for students only when they have access to the right hands-on resources.”. Better learning happens when students have access to differentiated instruction that engages multiple senses and gets them learning in a way that’s active and hands-on.

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Microsoft Differentiated Instruction STEM Guidelines 117

eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. In small-group work, for example, students can do so many things with technology, such as reading aloud, practicing decoding, doing a word sort, or practicing dictation. Related : The phonics fix?

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2017

Helping Learners Find Their ZPD Understanding what “tailoring instruction” means and what it takes to make it happen is critical when implementing a personalized learning model. For Reyes, it’s about using purposeful groupings, choosing relevant instructional materials and modifying content to align with learning interests and needs.

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Personalized Learning Meeting Differentiated Instruction Instructional Materials 123

Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in. Going Global in the Classroom.

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 101

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

The first is differentiated instruction. The teacher needs to address each student at her appropriate level. With the ever greater range of student proficiency in today’s schools, this is virtually impossible if the teacher is standing in front of the class addressing all the students as a single group.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2018

Based on their answer patterns, students clustered into three groups: low; low-medium; and medium exposure to 16 key elements of proficiency-based learning. Half the students were somewhere in between low to medium exposure. There was no group of students who experienced a high degree of exposure to proficiency-based education.

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Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 20, 2020

If you liked last week’s tip on Chrome Tab Groups , you might want to adjust your settings in Chrome so that these groups reload when you open Chrome. This will allow you to reload things like Chrome tab groups and pinned tabs. And for students as well, giving them more voice and choice in their learning.

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wwwatanabe

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

It is great differentiation for all students including ELL, gifted, and special needs. It increases student engagement in a meaningful and relevant task. I might even do the first one as a whole group with parts and roles shared by the students. It can be used as an authentic assessment.

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eSchool News

APRIL 5, 2024

This approach fosters critical thinking, collaboration, and retention of information by involving students in the exploration and application of concepts. Another effective teaching strategy is differentiated instruction, which involves adapting teaching methods and materials to meet the diverse learning needs of students.

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