Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

How can we leverage technology to provide meaningful choices within a learning experience and create the time and space needed to work with individual students or small groups of learners? UDL is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.”

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 10, 2022

I teamed up with Dr. Katie Novak to write a follow-up to our book UDL and Blended Learning. In our second book, UDL and Blended Learning 2: Shifting to Sustainable Student-led Workflows (coming out in spring 2022), we tackle 10 unsustainable teacher-led workflows. Want to learn more about blended learning and UDL?

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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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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. “What if students do not watch the video?”

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 8, 2021

As educators, we have the challenge and honor to teach a dynamic and unique group of students each time a class period begins. Teachers can break the class into groups and ask students to start at a particular station and allow them to transition to the next station when they are ready.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

What is new is that the pandemic has shone a light on the ineffectiveness of a one-size-fits-all approach to educating a diverse group of students. These goals are hard, if not impossible, to achieve with traditional, teacher-led, whole group lessons. 1 Relationships need to be our #1 priority.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

The members of the PLC determine the focus of their inquiry and learning. Teachers are encouraged to share their learning and discoveries with the larger school community. PLCs group teachers into learning teams that pursue their professional learning through a lens of interest. Looking for a summer read?

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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

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 station rotation model moves students through a series of stations: teacher-led, online, and offline.

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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

You can create three versions of the same choice board (advanced, regular, scaffolded) to ensure that the level of rigor and academic complexity is appropriate to different groups of learners in your class. Conferencing about student progress Pulling students for real-time feedback sessions Conducting side-by-side assessments.

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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. Blended learning models are designed to shift control over key elements of the learning experience (e.g.,

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

As I’ve embraced blended learning, I have transformed many of my whole group, teacher-led lessons into student-centered, student-paced learning experiences using different blended learning models. From Whole Group to The Playlist Model. It was teacher-led and teacher-paced.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Stachowiak suggests including at least three polls or opportunities to interact during each online class session. In fact, a lot of it's getting really critical, like, “What you're doing, that's not online teaching—you're not in the cool kids club.” I love what many of the universal design for learning people say.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2015

New report highlights 10-step plan to applying Universal Design for Learning online. UDL is tough enough in a face-to-face environment, but the real challenge might be how to implement the principles in an online world where students’ abilities and learning styles differ drastically. Knowing Where to Start.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2014

Topics include: Personalize Your Math Professional Development, Learn About Differentiated Instruction and UDL, Personalize Your ELA Professional Development, and more. PD certificates will be available through the Learning Revolution. Prasanna Bharti shared this Ed Tech Review article on project based learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

In moving from classroom-based instruction to online instruction, the role of the faculty member changes from the content presenter to the facilitator of online learning. This session will look at what it takes to create an online learning community that is safe, supportive, interactive, and engaging.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

You’ll learn how to identify conditions such as PTSD and how to help students through natural and healthy grieving processes. Skills for online engagement with students who are experiencing anxiety (and trauma) can be especially helpful for educators struggling with student disengagement in online classrooms. Learn More.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J.

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