Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

When Dr. Novak and I started writing our new book, Shift Writing into the Classroom, we anticipated that teachers outside of English Language Arts would take one look at the title and assume that the book was not intended for them. We want every student to reap the benefits of becoming effective writers.

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Classroom Blended Learning Handbook Analysis 259

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. When Should Teachers Use This Strategy? These formative assessments can take the form of quizzes, short written responses, exit tickets, online discussions, and graphic organizers.

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Hapara

JANUARY 10, 2024

In today’s educational landscape, personalized learning has emerged as a key strategy to address individual learner profiles, interests and abilities. With the advent of generative AI tools now accessible to the general public, educators have an incredible opportunity to bring personalized learning with AI to life in every classroom.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 3, 2021

Courses about Student Mental Health Strategies for Addressing Student Anxiety With the strategies and interventions you learn in this course, you will be able to create a classroom environment where students can successfully cope with stressors and instead focus on learning.

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Course Assessment Online Assessments Strategy 486

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Teachers will want to use pre-assessments, diagnostics, and/or assess prior knowledge to identify where each student is in relation to the content at the heart of the playlist. In addition to using data to design the playlist, it is essential to build mechanisms into the playlist to collect formative assessment data.

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Blended Learning Assessment Data Strategy 544

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

UDL and Opportunity Youth. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). UDL’s guiding principles are: All people learn differently; The emotion behind learning is as important as the learning; and.

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UDL MOOC Learning Strategy 152

EdTechTeacher

APRIL 18, 2019

As educators, we innately know that our students bring different learner profiles to our classrooms. It focuses on utilizing teaching strategies that provide students with multiple options for taking in and processing information, making sense of ideas, and then expressing their learning. UDL Framework from CAST.

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Edsurge

MAY 5, 2023

Leveraging creativity in the classroom helps students develop a deeper understanding and make cross-curricular connections. Trowbridge adds that while 65 percent of students cite doing and creating as the most effective methods of learning, they don’t often have such classroom opportunities.

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Adobe Advocacy UDL Digital Citizenship 158

Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

A simple strategy that I have used to help teachers design offline student-led collaborative stations is talking chips, also known as discussion chips. This is an easy way to promote student choice in the classroom and allow the conversation to feel more natural and free-flowing.

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Blended Learning Groups Strategy Assessment 256

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

More from Edmentum If you're looking for more personalized learning programs, check out Edmentum's full suite of K-12 evidence-based assessments and digital curriculum and see why almost a million educators in the U.S. I hope our toolkit will help you choose the approach that best suits the needs of your classroom. partner with us.

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Personalized Learning Edmentum UDL Blended Learning 143

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 3, 2024

Ensure these activities cater to diverse learning preferences, interests, and strengths by incorporating a range of engagement strategies. Teachers can also use this time to give students feedback on a piece of work in progress or even facilitate side-by-side assessments to ensure transparency in the grading process.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2021

After reading Catlin Tucker’s blog post, 5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction , I was inspired to reflect on and revise a mini-unit I designed focusing on the short film Alike by Daniel Martinez Lara and Rafa Cano Méndez. I love reimagining a unit or lesson after I have taught it a few times.

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Blended Learning LMS Learning Video 397

Edsurge

JUNE 12, 2020

This is the second of a three-part series looking at how social-emotional learning strategies can support teachers of students with learning differences during the pandemic. Was it best for students to access material on a dashboard and, if so, should it be housed on one platform, such as Google Classroom, or spread across a few?

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MIND Research Institute

JANUARY 24, 2023

MIND partnered with edWeb, a professional online community for educators, to develop this webinar series to encourage math achievement for English learners in the classroom. English learners (ELs) make up one out of every 10 students and are the fastest-growing group in public school classrooms. In total, ELs in U.S.

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Accessibility UDL Professional Learning Assessment 53

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

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. Sustaining Effort and Persistence.

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Blended Learning UDL Learning Assessment 545

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

This transition involves logistical adjustments and a shift in mindset towards accommodating diverse learning paths within the same classroom environment. Online Station Students can self-pace through personalized practice online, engage in collaborative problem-solving, complete a pre-assessment/diagnostic, or work on a performance task.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

More than just an online worksheet, Hyperdocs allow teachers to intentionally design powerful lessons reflecting UDL principles in a sequence of personalized tasks. Hyperdoc digital lesson design allow teachers the opportunity to develop, design, curate and create content and assessment that is authentic to your classroom and audience.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 13, 2017

For Inclusive Schools Week , which took place from December 5th to 9th, Brookes Publishing , sponsor of the Teaching All Students: Practical Strategies for Inclusive Classrooms professional learning community (PLC) on edWeb.net , celebrated with a five-day giveaway. from British Columbia, Sandra L. from Massachusetts, Phyllis H.

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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Translate this thought into the classroom. Tier II support is the first layer of additional support when assessments indicate students need remediation of skills to become proficient, independent learners.) It helps me to modify to the learners in front of me immediately. In the U.S.

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UDL Personalized Learning Chromebook Assessment 75

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2018

In recent years, general education teachers have joined special education teachers in emphasizing the need for inclusivity in the classroom. By creating inclusive classrooms, educators aim to foster learning environments that are equitable and nurturing to every student. Use Varied Strategies to Present Content.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 23, 2018

In recent years, general education teachers have joined special education teachers in emphasizing the need for inclusivity in the classroom. By creating inclusive classrooms, educators aim to foster learning environments that are equitable and nurturing to every student. Use varied strategies to present content.

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UDL Accessibility Video Training 95

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Welcome to the third post in a series designed to support the use of technology for differentiated learning… in and beyond the PBL classroom. I believe that the DI classroom must provide students some self autonomy when participating in the writing process. It makes sure that writers are provided a formative assessment writing session.

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Resources Tools Differentiated Instruction Learning 60

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

Teachers are freed from orchestrating a lesson and able to conference with learners about their progress, provide feedback on work in progress, or conduct side-by-side assessments. Standards-aligned boards Strategy-specific boards Thematic boards Review and practice boards Project or performance task boards. Designing Choice Boards.

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Blended Learning Strategy Assessment Examples 546

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A Quick Review of Explicit Teaching Explicit teaching is a high-impact teaching strategy in which the teacher shows students precisely what to do and how to do it. In explicit teaching, independent practice is important as it helps reinforce the learning and assesses students’ grasp of the material without direct teacher guidance.

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Blended Learning Groups Learning Assessment 195

Fractus Learning

JUNE 22, 2015

This is the perfect time to utilize formative assessment tools to gauge student understanding and help make decisions about tomorrow’s instruction. Conclusion: In order to better utilize the last five minutes of class, it is essential that we connect today’s learning with tomorrow’s lesson through formative assessments.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Often distracted and easily bored, these students are also critical thinkers capable of thriving in the online classroom while learning 21st-century skills. 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.

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Fractus Learning

MARCH 23, 2016

Countless educational technologies and strategies exist to help engage students, represent content differently and provide students with creative ways to demonstrate their understanding. One popular educational model called the Flipped Classroom, combines the power of technology and pedagogy to enhance learning. Challenges of Flipping.

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Flipped Classroom UDL Accessibility Survey 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 29, 2014

Updates Partner Spotlight Partner Announcements Calendar of Events Deadlines Highlighted Recordings Conversations Updates "Reinventing the Classroom" Starts Wednesday Evening! Reinventing the Classroom" Call for Volunteers. Come join our free online conference this Wednesday evening and all day Thursday. No problem!

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Conference Classroom Libraries Common Core 44

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

Those days may serve as a “spark” to ignite interest in a topic; however, without structures in place to help teachers take the ideas, strategies, and models presented and implement them, that spark will fade. Each member of the PLC will take what the team created or designed back to their classrooms to implement.

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Professional Learning Blended Learning Learning UDL 438

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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The Principal of Change

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Currently, I am teaching a course with UPenn titled “Building a Strong Foundation for Universal Design for Learning and Innovation,” which is part of a UDL certificate program taught with my friend and colleague, Dr. Katie Novak. ( The last thing that I want to share through this course is regarding assessment.

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Classroom UDL Guidelines Course 58

MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. The beauty of UDL is that it addresses ‘learner variability’, which is the norm in our classrooms.”. A key premise of UDL is that there is no “average learner.” Online Class Design.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 20, 2024

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) draws its inspiration from the broader concept of Universal Design (UD), initially pioneered in architecture. Our focus in this post is on Universal Design for Learning, popularly known by the acronym UDL. UD aims for inclusive access to architectural spaces for all users.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

As learning in the digital age progresses, online platforms, interactive simulations, and virtual classrooms have become essential tools, promoting and supporting self-directed and personalized learning experiences. Furthermore, K-12 digital learning extends educational access beyond traditional classroom boundaries.

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Digital Divide Learning Digital Learning Adaptive Learning 104

User Generated Education

JULY 11, 2015

Created by students for teachers, the following video shows students frustrated with the lack of visual learning in the classroom: This post is a call to action to increase visual-based learning in the classroom through: Using visuals, images, video, and other visual media to teach and demonstrate concepts.

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Handbook Learning Strategy Data 96