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., The engagement strategy becomes the students’ documentation of learning and their “entrance ticket” into the actual lesson.

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Flipped Classroom Classroom Blended Learning Video 426

Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

Teachers can present students with an unfamiliar problem or prompt to pique their interest, ask them to generate questions about a topic, or assess their prior knowledge. Hosting small group video conferencing sessions allows the teacher to engage students in a discussion, modeling session, and guided practice.

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Learning Video Strategy Assessment 546

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Identify Standards and Skills Starting from a place of the standards provides teachers with a clear road map for designing both the learning activities within the playlist and the rubric they will use to assess student learning at the end of the playlist. Should I build my playlist in a digital document or slide deck? Not necessarily.

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Blended Learning Learning Assessment Microsoft 420

User Generated Education

MAY 21, 2017

Documenting Learning. Silvia Tolisano sees documenting learning as: a process of intentional documenting serves a metacognitive purpose. being open for feedback ( Documenting FOR Learning ). Silvia Tolisano sees documenting learning as: a process of intentional documenting serves a metacognitive purpose.

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Learning Adobe Program Evaluation Chromebook 130

Neo LMS

JUNE 7, 2022

Quizzes are the quickest way to assess student knowledge. Moreover, students can also add attachments to essay assignments such as PowerPoint presentations or Word documents. Students can use the HTML editor to write an essay or upload a document. When creating a team assignment, you also set up a group on the platform.

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LMS Survey Assessment Google 326

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Student Communication Skills including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Communication: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Supports the power of individual and group voice. Make assessment of Communication an ongoing effort.

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Assessment Education STEM Resources 189

Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

TIP: I encourage teachers to include the expectations for behavior and participation in the agenda or planning document that they share with students in advance of the conversation. . This creates opportunities for the teacher to group students strategically to ensure students are more likely to engage in conversation. .

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Student Engagement Video Strategy Assessment 546

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 396

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 8, 2015

The challenge for me was to design an “assessment” that was meaningful. I had tried everything from the traditional book report style assessment to more creative movie trailers, but I didn’t feel like they accomplished what I wanted from a silent sustained reading assessment. Sans the wine, of course.)

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Assessment Common Core Google Meeting 150

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. It seems educators and industry are all talking about the importance of student collaboration, but how are we facilitating and assessing this skill. Collaboration: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Schools have loved it!

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Assessment STEM Education Groups 156

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 30, 2018

In that capacity, she is participating—along with eighty or so of her Henry County colleagues—in the Assessment for Learning micro-credential project , led by the Center for Collaborative Education (CCE). In June, she submitted evidence for and earned all the micro-credentials in the full stack , “Leading a Performance Assessment Community.”

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Assessment Professional Learning Meeting Examples 207

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. My role was to provide then direct feedback on all the evidence shared while also engaging the group to do the same.

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Assessment Outcomes Examples Elementary 533

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

Responsible decision-making is the ability to assess a situation, understand the benefits and consequences of different responses, consider what is ethical and safe, and make kind and productive choices. Once each group has shared their norms, give students time to review them (e.g., What is responsible decision-making? Click to copy.

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Exercises Learning Strategy Groups 370

eSchool News

MARCH 8, 2024

The ILO Group this week announced the release of its Framework for Implementing Artificial Intelligence in K-12 Education –a first-of-its-kind AI framework for school district and state education leaders–providing them with the tools, resources, and research-basis to thoughtfully embrace this game-changing technology.

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Groups Resources Tools Assessment 129

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 524

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

JANUARY 13, 2020

It is filled with thoughts on Creativity including “I can” statement(s), classroom attributes, and assessment rubrics. Creativity: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. Make assessment of Creativity an ongoing effort. While the teacher can assess, have students assess themselves.

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Assessment Education STEM Conference 156

Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

When they self-assess what they know, they can improve their understanding. GrokSpot is a complex tool that can be used to check students’ understanding and prompt rich discussions, assign groups, foster peer comments and reactions. The platform includes various group management and collaborative discussions features.

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Tools Microsoft Assessment Google 444

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2017

this year I am bound and determined to move ALL assessment into the classroom! Click To Tweet This may sound like a crazy resolution given that most teachers spend hours of time outside of school assessing their students’ work. Real-time feedback and assessment are way more effective.

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Assessment Blended Learning Classroom Flipped Classroom 150

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

You can upload anything you already have in your classroom, every pdf, every electronic document, or the materials you’ve purchased and add to Lumio. As you can see in the graphic, you have quick exit tickets, self-assessments, speed up games, and more that you can add to your library to easily insert into your lessons.

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Libraries Assessment Tools Google 351

Edsurge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. In the PLC, teachers can look at those student groups from a whole-child perspective.

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Outcomes Data Strategy Analysis 111

Catlin Tucker

JULY 17, 2023

Station Set Up When designing these student-led offline stations, I encourage teachers to arrange the desks and chairs into groups of 4-5. At each table group, place the talking chips at the center of the table in a basket or bag. I recommend providing each group with a list of six to ten related questions.

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Blended Learning Groups Strategy Assessment 223

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Welcome to a series of posts dedicated to 21st skills and assessment. Critical Thinking: Facilitating and Assessing the 21st Century Skills in Education. At the same time … how are you assessing your students? It provides group thinking that builds on the standards. Self assessment can be powerful).

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Assessment Education STEM Conference 158

Neo LMS

MARCH 15, 2022

For this to happen, teachers can opt for a mix of game-based learning tools, conducting a quick assessment or social and emotional learning (SE)L check-in, or asking students to create and share what they have learned in a way that meets their interests. Read more: Spring into creativity with these 5 digital tools!

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Student Engagement Tools Game-Based Learning Gamification 530

Hapara

JULY 3, 2023

We will use respectful language online, in email, on class message boards and in Google Documents. They’ve been placed in differentiated groups, and each group is responsible for researching and presenting a different topic. Other learners may be able to focus on the formative assessment until it’s completed.

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Digital Learning Digital Citizenship How To Education 144

Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 17, 2022

Most teachers I know have used Twitter in their classes either to communicate with parents, share homework with students, for group study, to research on a topic, crowd source ideas with colleagues, or a myriad of other purposes ( click here for more ideas ). I found creative uses for it in my history teaching, even at that time.

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Twitter Social Media Classroom Digital Citizenship 333

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

When teachers engage students at their teacher-led station, they can collect invaluable formative assessment data that can help inform future lessons. #1 1 Hook the Group. Then when you return to your group, you can ask pairs to share their process for solving the problem. 2 I Do, We Do, You Do. 3 Homework Check & Review.

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Schoology Groups Assessment Strategy 420

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

It’s exciting to see so many teachers trying this blended learning model and creating opportunities for small group instruction, real-time feedback, collaboration, and differentiated learning. 2) Switch up your groups! 2) Switch up your groups! Click here for more on grouping strategies and organizing groups.

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LMS Strategy Groups Blended Learning 405

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Spend time working directly with small groups of students. Tips for using the station rotation model in a concurrent classroom: “Rotate” or transition groups of students from activity to activity on a set schedule. Not sure how to structure your small group instruction? Differentiate learning (e.g., Here are five strategies!

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Blended Learning Classroom Learning Software 545

User Generated Education

MARCH 19, 2020

teacher education Zoom meetings although they can be adapted for any age group and age level (3rd grade and up), and in training professionals. Whole Group Discussions. Whole group discussions should be just that – discussions. A favorite whole group activity I do is to have a group video viewing party.

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Meeting Poll Everywhere Groups Case Study 374

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

The poster started above can be a collaborative project that engages a group of students, reinforcing their skills at speaking and listening, working in groups, and those important writing skills of edit-revise-rewrite.The math practice can be extended by asking students to create their own assessments, to measure their progress.

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Khan Academy Digital Citizenship Libraries Training 326

User Generated Education

FEBRUARY 12, 2023

During the course, these graduate students are asked to develop a global networked curriculum where two groups from very diverse geographical locations, preferably a country different than one’s own, work to solve an authentic problem. It just got started. I am so excited. Below is the highlights of our collaboration. Thank you, Raelee!

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Elementary Course Meeting Groups 156

Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 17, 2022

Rather than a two-page printed document that can be lost and serves only one user, a digital portfolio posts your resume online, in an easy-to-understand format. Include not only the step-by-step, but samples, artifacts, assessment strategies, feedback from students and parents, and reflections from you after it’s completed. .

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Robotics Social Media Chromebook Common Core 383

ViewSonic Education

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Meeting leaders and facilitators should be mindful of not allowing any individual or group to dominate the conversation. Be sensitive to cultural differences. Assess your accessibility. Make sure that everyone feels comfortable speaking up and that no one person (or small group of people) is dominating the conversation.

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Meeting Microsoft Accessibility Groups 195

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Writing to Learn: How Writing Positively Impacts Learning & Academic Success The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) states that writing is “ one of the most important skills that students acquire and develop during K-12 schooling. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016).

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Classroom Blended Learning Handbook Analysis 259

Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2022

The equity audit consisted of five phases: Phase I : Research and develop a comprehensive evaluation rubric to assess micro-credentials against a rigorous equity and access standard. Does the research reflect a diverse group of researchers? Phase II : Evaluate and categorize micro-credentials based on level of modifications needed.

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Accessibility Libraries Resources Professional Learning 336

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 12, 2024

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter My students are writing a collaborative writing document following the principles I share in my book Reinventing Writing. To document my own thinking process as I evaluate this. The students feel like their group work is close.

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How To Secondary Assessment Meeting 344

Hapara

JULY 19, 2023

Collaborate One of the benefits of Google Docs for learners is that it increases their productivity because they can access their documents from any device. Learners don’t need their own separate documents, nor do they need to sit together in person. It also keeps them engaged if you choose a meaningful activity.

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