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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

Research around differentiated instruction confirms this is true. If you can adapt your instruction to reflect your students’ needs and learning preferences, you can make class time more effective and help students become more engaged. What is Differentiated Instruction? Sounds familiar?

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Universal Design for Learning: What Educators Need to Know

Waterford

Then, discover a few practical ways that you can use Universal Design for Learning guidelines in your classroom—along with some examples to get you started. By implementing UDL guidelines, you can both recognize and reduce any barriers that your students are facing.[2]. Sources : UDL Guidelines. Frequently Asked Questions.

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Increasing Student Participation During Zoom Synchronous Teaching Meetings

User Generated Education

In this case, I inform the Breakout Groups to decide on a spokesperson or two to report to the whole group. Individual or small groups are asked to take a slide of a shared Google Slide presentation to report on a given topic. I give some broad guidelines including finding and adding both content and images. Breakout Groups.

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More than 200,000 Students and Educators Across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Use Lexia Learning’s Programs to Boost Literacy Rates

eSchool News

Core5 provides students in prekindergarten through fifth grade with explicit, systematic instruction through personalized learning paths in six areas of reading. Progress reports revealed significant results. The percentage working on or above grade level increased from 48% to 87%. For more information, visit www.lexialearning.com.

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TEACHER VOICE: Already affected by crisis in their own countries, refugee students are left behind in online learning

The Hechinger Report

As reopening guidelines remain varied and in seemingly permanent flux, we must remember that children across the country simply haven’t experienced consistent online teaching and learning. What does this mean for teaching and learning? How do we, as educators, stay connected with our students and families? What should we expect?

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What is the VARK model of Student Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

VARK started as a questionnaire to help students and teachers understand their best approach to learning but has since become more of a guideline for teaching and learning. Interestingly enough, Dr. Fleming reports that Kinesthetics (the K in VARK) is the most common learning style though not the most common teaching style.

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The complete guide to independent math menus

The Cornerstone for Teachers

Some teachers use math menus with the whole class, and others use them for independent work, as they work with small groups of students for differentiated instruction. I don’t always have the time to do this, but when I do, it is a valuable way to collect informal assessments for report cards and parent conferences.