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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

As a learning community, all members should play a role in providing thoughtful and substantive feedback. Peer feedback is most effective when it is focused, and students have clear guidelines for giving feedback. Below are three strategies designed to make peer feedback meaningful. Peer Feedback Choice Board. Assignment Checklist.

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Teachers need lots of training to do online learning well. Coronavirus closures gave many just days.

The Hechinger Report

After the Arizona State University Preparatory Academy announced on Friday, March 13, that it would shift its 11 schools to online learning because of the coronavirus crisis, teacher Theresa Ordell switched to high gear. Experts say teachers need weeks — if not months — of training to develop and implement an online class.

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What Will Schools Do in the Fall? Here Are 4 Possible Scenarios

Edsurge

Brick to Click Learning The gist: The school district will begin the academic year with traditional, in-person classes, but will have planned and prepared for an outbreak that causes the school community to transition swiftly to distance learning. All academic content will be taught online for the duration of the school year.

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Coronavirus Closures? Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China]

Shake Up Learning

Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools [interview with an American Teacher in China] appeared first on Shake Up Learning. Are you prepared for online learning if your school is closed for an extended period of time? FREE Webinar: Online Learning Tips for Teachers and Schools. Click To Tweet.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). The UDL framework helps educators think about and design learning experiences that allow all students to be successful. Engagement. Self-Regulation.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Action and Expression

Catlin Tucker

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of representation. I described how blended and online learning can help educators provide opportunities for students to perceived and engage with information presented in multiple modalities. Physical Action.

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Planning for the Reopening of Schools in the Fall – The Unknown Unknowns.

There is no box

We know how to do distance learning in a blended format. There are several good models for blended learning; however, they tend to rely on students having made the transition from learning to read, to reading to learn. Distance learning will be with us for the duration.