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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Teachers can use observations with a checklist when students are: Engaged in group activities or discussions to monitor individual participation and contributions. For example, suppose small groups of students are discussing a text they’ve read, a video they watched, or a podcast they listened to.

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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

” I wrote a blog about the difference , but here is a quick comparison that might help. Group Projects: When students work in groups, they need to coordinate efforts, communicate effectively, and work collaboratively on a shared task. Some groups will work more quickly, while others will benefit from having more time.

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How to minimize cheating in online assessments

Neo LMS

In comparison, seventy-five percent of high school students admit to doing the same. Read more: How to manage assessments in the blended classroom. Let’s see how the most skilled teachers deal with academic dishonesty in the online classroom: Open-textbook assignments. Assign group projects through your LMS.

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Cultivating Independent and Collaborative Meaning-Making

Catlin Tucker

In my work helping teachers to shift from whole group, teacher-led lessons to differentiated small group student-centered learning experiences, I am asked questions that seem grounded in the belief that students cannot learn without the teacher. Create An Analogy: Encourage students to make a comparison or create an analogy.

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Using AI in Service of Strong Pedagogical Practice

Catlin Tucker

Despite my optimism about the benefits of AI in education, the buzz online is focused on the exciting new AI-powered education tools and not on the transformative impact those tools could have on how we design and facilitate learning experiences to meet the needs of diverse groups of students. That is the same concern I have now.

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Student and Teacher Motivational Needs in the School Setting

User Generated Education

For students, this can be situations such as group projects and or team sports. In addition, students who have a low need for affiliation will equally cause issues if they are always expected to socialize and be a part of the group. It includes a comparison to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. This is a good overview.

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The @ASCD Arias Series-Grading And Group Work

The Web20Classroom

In this post we dive deep with Grading and Group Work. Before I became a teacher it was ingrained it me in my Teacher Ed program that group work was the way to go. Each group could work on their set of experiments and we could do data comparisons across groups. Every member of the group had a role.

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