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Vocabulary Haiku: A Creative Approach to Deeping Understanding of Academic Vocabulary

Catlin Tucker

Such routines include students saying the word aloud, clapping out syllables, looking up and writing down the definition, and finding examples and non-examples of vocabulary terms. Write a haiku poem for that term, using the guidelines for writing a haiku. The directions for creating a vocabulary haiku are simple.

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What Separates a Good Blended Learning Program From a Bad One?

Edsurge

These days many schools tout blended learning programs when marketing their school to potential students. Blended learning can combine the flexibility of online instruction with the benefits of in-person teaching. The Good The best blended learning programs seem to have some common threads.

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A Back-to-School, Personalized Learning Toolkit

Edsurge

3) Workbook—Online Curriculum How-to Guide Online curriculum is often a key part of any personalized learning program. This workbook will expand your definition of online curriculum; highlight student and teacher needs and views of implementations; and provide opportunities to help you identify your goals.

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Is it really “blended learning” or is it just “learning”?

The Principal of Change

.” Maybe the analogy doesn’t connect, but I feel the same way about the term “blended learning”, in which many of our students might just simply call “learning” To me, it would be the equivalent of referring to “reading a book” to “paper learning” It is just learning.

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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. “There are known knowns.

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PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

PBL… Blended and eLearning – Part 1: Important Questions for the New School Year. How do I facilitate PBL in blended learning environment?”. The sudden shift in the learning environment last year may have provided an obstacle for the way we wanted to see this happen. Planning Blended Learning for another year.

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How to Blend DoK into Lesson Plans without a Comprehensive Rewrite

Ask a Tech Teacher

Now, exemplary teachers focus on blending learning into the student’s life knowledge base with the goal of building happy, productive adults. Norman Webb’s Depth of Knowledge philosophy — an integral concept to her school’s mission. Show students how to accomplish Level One and Two goals first.

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