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Balance the Delivery

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Even during the past school year, many educators who previously used the blended learning approach decided to reduce the amount of virtual learning. Departments may also use this approach at the secondary level and at grade levels for the elementary level. Online discussions can move to face to face.

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7 Steps to Stronger Student Collaborators in Your Classroom

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We learned about, planned out, tried out, and reflected on blended learning station rotation that required a collaboration station. Step 4 Socratic Seminar with Sentence Starters: Move to an on-the-spot, think-fast, response system that requires accountable talk or sentence starters. How Can We Fail Forward?

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Verso

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

in Secondary Education Language Arts. I quickly jumped on board and used it to set up a Socratic Seminar with my English II course. I've always loved reading and writing, so I decided that I wanted to be an English teacher. I attended the University of Alabama (Roll Tide!) and graduated with a B.S. English Literature course.

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Goodbye, Long Nights of Lesson Planning: The Secrets to Successful Virtual Co-Teaching

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An example of student-to-student collaboration that is only possible because of intentional teacher-to-teacher collaboration is our Socratic seminars. Students in one classroom are paired with partner “e-pals” in another class to score and provide weekly reflection on others’ work.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

A must-read on Trump University from Ars Technica : “Trump University and the art of the get-rich seminar.” Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”)