Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

Even though collecting informal data may be more challenging online or in a concurrent classroom composed of a group of students in class and another group online simultaneously, it’s critical that teachers understand where students are and what they need to continue making progress.

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Assessment Data Learning Groups 545

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Blended learning tip: This is ideal for a small group collaborative activity as part of a station rotation or whole group rotation lesson. Ask groups of 4-6 students to work together to craft a collection of questions on a digital slide deck , like the one I’ve included below. Click to cop y.

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Blended Learning Groups Study Assessment 544

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

While my students engaged in student-centered learning at the online and offline stations, I enjoyed the dedicated time to work with a small group of learners at my teacher-led station. I felt more effective and engaged working with a small group of students. Students can be grouped flexibly (e.g.,

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

For example, we don’t want to create table groups where students are facing each other for an individual task that requires focus and concentration. The U-shape seating arrangement also provides easy visual access to the whiteboard or other teaching aids, which the teacher may be using during the differentiated small group lesson.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

Whole Group Rotation Model. Last week, I wrote about the whole group rotation , which rotates students between online and offline, individual and collaborative learning activities. Let’s explore what the active reading strategy above looks like in a whole group rotation. Do they agree, disagree, or are they unsure?

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Strategy Learning Groups Blended Learning 546

ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 5, 2024

With flexible seating, interactive technology, and dedicated group work areas, they create a dynamic and collaborative learning environment. Collaboration: These spaces, with group-friendly furniture layouts and EdTech , serve as hubs for peer-to-peer learning and teamwork, helping students develop essential social and communication skills.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 18, 2021

Following a short period of direct instruction with the entire class, the teacher breaks students into groups using data where the class engages in a series of activities during a set period of time. It is essential to use a good data source for groupings so the learners get the most out of the targeted instruction or support rotation.

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Blended Learning Elementary Flipped Classroom Secondary 545

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

In a workshop last week, I was guiding a group through the process of designing a choice board. Would you rather eat a cookie or a brownie? Would you rather watch a movie or read a book? They enjoy being presented with two options and getting to choose one. I love choice boards, but I know they take time to create.

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Groups Meeting Video Learning 545

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

The station rotation model is a great way to introduce your class expectations to a new group of students while simultaneously building relationships and developing your class community. The groups cycle through the six stations twice in two weeks. For more information on grouping strategies, check out this blog.

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UDL Blended Learning LMS Online Learning 521

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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Classroom Groups Differentiated Instruction Analysis 397

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

Do they work better on their own, with a partner, or in a group? Too often, teachers rely exclusively on the teacher-led, whole group model because that is what they were taught in teacher training programs. Instead, these models create the time and space for teachers to work directly with individual or small groups of students.

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Blended Learning UDL Learning Flipped Classroom 540

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Group Projects: When students work in groups, they need to coordinate efforts, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively on a shared task. Some groups will work more quickly, while others will benefit from having more time. Teachers can use this one-on-one or small group time for a range of tasks.

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Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction Groups Strategy 496

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 14, 2021

I absolutely love coaching educators in small groups. Having multiple touchpoints and small groups allows for more engagement, personalization, mentoring, feedback, and the time to dive more deeply into concepts. The effective elements of coaching listed earlier in this post weren’t just used by me, but instead the entire group.

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Strategy Professional Learning Groups Outcomes 543

EdTech Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2024

Organized professional learning groups aim to change this. Frequently, these groups come in the form of a professional learning… While rewarding, this can make it difficult to problem-solve or generate ideas in their jobs.

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Education Professional Learning Groups Learning 415

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 9, 2022

Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. Additionally, student groups are expected to: develop three reasons for and three against the topic, and how to refute each. Once resources have been collected, present to the group for discussion. review with a critique group.

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Khan Academy Common Core eBook Exercises 481

Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2024

Instead of talking at kids, teachers can facilitate differentiated direct instruction, guide practice, facilitate small group discussions, and provide real-time feedback. Step 2: Create small groups of four students. You may want to group them to ensure you have a nice mix of personalities and abilities working together.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

If teachers plan to differentiate their instruction to meet the specific needs of a group of students, I recommend using the station rotation model to work directly with small groups of students. The teacher can carousel around the group if students are working offline, providing written or verbal feedback.

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Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction Flipped Classroom Learning 519

EdTech Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

Students are charged with tagging and tracking bees as members of an after-school biotechnology research group called the DNA Club. At Fulton County Schools’ Innovation Academy in Georgia, high school biotechnology teacher Bob Kuhn helps students in grades 10 through 12 to understand the bee situation.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 8, 2021

Tier 2 – Targeted supports using the data collected from the Tier 1 interventions are used to provide small group instruction that focuses on specific learning and behavioral needs. This data and that collected through routine benchmarking are utilized to determine what supports are needed in Tier 2.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2021

I was hesitant at the start of the year about starting small group instruction given the circumstances. I had trouble envisioning what small group instruction would like in a remote and/or hybrid setting. Our students have been in school in three formats; all remote, hybrid, and now entirely in-person.

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Data Elementary Strategy Groups 546

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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Differentiated Instruction Learning Assessment Groups 480

Ask a Tech Teacher

MAY 20, 2022

Usually, that meant desktop computers, iPads, and laptops, either in small groups or 1:1. Open Library is a curated list of over 20 million books (and growing) that are available worldwide to all age groups whether from the public domain or under copyright protections. They are organized by age group and category. Open Library.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Despite being incredibly busy, each classroom teacher, building administrator, and district-level leader in this group joined with the noble goal of creating practical resources for fellow educators struggling through the transition to emergency remote learning. To apply this lesson at home, gather a group of your peers.

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LMS Learning Groups Exercises 397

EdTech Magazine

JULY 29, 2024

Thankfully, I found a group of people who welcomed me and let me know I wasn’t alone. Nobody noticed when I went days without talking or sat by myself at lunch, reading a book to avoid drawing attention to my loneliness. I often wondered if people would notice if I was gone. I began to question if I had any value to give the world.

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Strategy Technology Groups Classroom 449

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

If you want to know how accurate their work was, pair or group students strategically and give them an answer key. This provides you with data you can use to identify the aspects of the assignment that need to be revisited in small groups or as a whole class. Ask them to work together to check, correct, and capture their questions.

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Assessment Examples Groups Strategy 545

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Instead, they can spend more time facilitating learning and working directly with small groups of students. It can be an online station in a station rotation , on-demand video content in a playlist , or a self-paced online activity in a whole group rotation. “But, I don’t want to send videos home with students.”

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Strategy UDL Blended Learning Video 545

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. Creating inclusive learning environments is hard to achieve in a one-size-fits-all, whole group, teacher-led lesson.

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Blended Learning Classroom Groups Assessment 508

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., It frees the teacher to move around the classroom, supporting individuals and small groups of learners.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Blended Learning Video 481

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

Instead of spending valuable class time on lecturing, teachers can focus on providing targeted feedback, conducting informative polls, leading small group instruction, scaffolding learning, and tailoring learning opportunities to individual student needs. Simply showing an instructional video is not enough.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Video Strategy 435

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2023

Leaders who do this strive to: Create a shared vision Empower people Build capacity Improve outcomes All of the above elements play a part in achieving collective efficacy, which is the belief that a group can work together effectively to achieve common goals.

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Outcomes EdTech Groups Data 508

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

Whole group direct instruction is often used to transfer information. The benefit of these formats is that students have a higher degree of control over the experience as compared to a whole group presentation. Yet, this approach to instruction creates barriers that make it challenging for all students to be successful.

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UDL Blended Learning Learning Assessment 546

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

If you stumble across a group of K–12 school students outside using laptops to track soil levels and search for monarch eggs or observing birdhouses with video cameras, you may have discovered an outdoor learning space.

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Laptops Technology Learning Classroom 461

EdTech Magazine

APRIL 17, 2024

With a wide variety of hardware and software solutions that gather and share information, facilitate group work, enable remote learning, broadcast messages and more, the scope of educational technology is broadening, leaving some schools unsure about where to invest.

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Education Software Outcomes Technology Support 412

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The three-team department includes an IT group that manages infrastructure and an integration team that runs the IT help desk and works to maximize uptime in the classroom. He has multiple master’s degrees in education, and at one point he considered becoming a school principal.

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Technology Education Groups Classroom 465

Ask a Tech Teacher

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Here’s a short list of items that won’t take long to accomplish: Update your online profile –your blog profile page, your gravatar, FB, Twitter, professional groups, your PLN. Check individual post tags and categories– whittle down the options while still authentically grouping your writing. Switched jobs?

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Digital Citizenship Social Media Smartphone Twitter 480

EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Siân Morgan, research director at Dell’Oro Group, calls Wi-Fi 7 “revolutionary” because it operates on the newly available 6-gigahertz frequency band. What sets Wi-Fi 7 apart is its ability to reach speeds of up to 46 gigabits per second, compared with a max of 10Gbps on Wi-Fi 6E, the previous standard.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Data is used to group, regroup, provide targeted instruction, pull individuals for intensive one-on-one support, and differentiate to especially help at-risk learners. While the majority of the class works on the assignment, pull small groups of students or individuals for targeted support. Close the lesson. That’s it in a nutshell.

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