Edsurge

MAY 7, 2020

Or maybe you’re actually kind of intrigued by this whole online learning thing. Either way, if you think it’s time to improve your online teaching game, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to your summer crash course in online education. Online instructors may serve more as facilitators than as lecturers.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Identify the desired results or the learning objectives Decide on an assessment strategy Create the learning path What do you want students to know, understand, or do at the end of this playlist? How will you measure progress toward learning objectives? What assessment strategy will you use?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Most teachers dedicate significant time and energy to their instructor role, explaining complex concepts and processes and modeling specific strategies and skills. Hattie’s and Timperley’s (2007) research on feedback identified it as having a significant impact on student achievement and learning. 77, 81–112. Valiandes, S.

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Blended Learning Differentiated Instruction Flipped Classroom Learning 483

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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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 21, 2021

I like to compare the teacher’s work designing learning experiences to the work of an architect. In my new book with Dr. Katie Novak, UDL and Blended Learning , I share a story about working with an architect to design a new home after my family lost our house in the Tubbs Fire in 2017. Summer Learning Opportunities.

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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.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of representation. I described how blended and online learning can help educators provide opportunities for students to perceived and engage with information presented in multiple modalities.

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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. How do we hold their attention, develop their abilities, and engage them in the online forum? Candy Mowen Candy Mowen, MS Ed.,

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MindShift

JULY 21, 2020

As the dust settles from emergency distance learning, schools now have the summer to reckon with what worked and what must change as they grapple with the uncertainty of the next academic year. Some educators who want to make online learning more engaging and accessible are exploring the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework.

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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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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2021

You can design choice boards for a variety of purposes or learning objectives. Standards-aligned boards Strategy-specific boards Thematic boards Review and practice boards Project or performance task boards. Strategy-specific Choice Boards. Standards-aligned Choice Boards.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

Professional learning should not be relegated to a handful of all-staff training days. 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.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It was one of the first models, along with the flipped classroom, that I could employ in my low-tech classroom. In the early days of my transition to blended learning, I had one Chromebook, which I received after writing a Donor’s Choose project. I have a soft spot for the station rotation model.

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