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Teacher Tips: Starting the Year with Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Post separate assignments for each online station, so students can access all of the resources and digital documents they need to complete the assignments. Provide students with meaningful choices in the rotation to remove potential barriers that might make it challenging for all students to access the content.

UDL 521
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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

4 – UDL – Universal Design for Learning Inaccessibility is still a major downfall of some online learning implementations. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) ensures that lessons are accessible for every student. UDL is an excellent framework that can be used in any classroom.

Course 337
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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

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. As educators, we want what’s best for our students! Learn More. Online Assessment. Look at this course.

Course 486
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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement.

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Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. Here’s Some Advice for Newly Remote Instructors

Edsurge

“I'd rather that you do that for your students, for yourself than to cancel all the classes,” she argues. Often the college already pays for access to one of them. Think Shorter If it’s hard to hold students’ attention in person, it’s even harder online, says Stachowiak: “You'll want to think about shortening that experience.

UDL 184
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Farewell, 2020: Lessons Learned

Catlin Tucker

7 Student agency is the best way to increase engagement and motivation. When I ask teachers to share the biggest challenges they face right now, they often identify a lack of student engagement as the number one hurdle. Student engagement and teacher engagement are reciprocal.

Learning 545
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Combatting the Challenges of Whole Group Lessons with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

This blend of online and offline learning can happen exclusively in the classroom with the station rotation and whole group rotation models. It can combine both in-class and online learning at home with the flipped classroom and playlist models. Blended Learning Benefit #1: Student Agency.