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Research Based Strategies for Distance Learning with Dr. Matthew Rhoads

The CoolCatTeacher

This powerful tool links with standards — and gives us the ability to do some timesaving, efficient reporting and tracking. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. My school uses Planboard with Chalk.com ’s curriculum planning tool.

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Personalized Learning: Research Highlights Need for New Models

Digital Promise

In the first of a series of reports from Digital Promise Global, Making Learning Personal For All – The Growing Diversity in Today’s Classroom explores learner diversity and learning variability across a variety of factors impacting student performance. To learn more, get your copy of the report.

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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. groups 3 and 4 Classroom Environment, and 5 and 6 Instructional Strategies. Breakout Groups.

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What is the VARK model of Student Learning?

Ask a Tech Teacher

The acronym VARK refers to four learning modalities — Visual, Auditory, Reading/Writing, and Kinesthetic. Interestingly enough, Dr. Fleming reports that Kinesthetics (the K in VARK) is the most common learning style though not the most common teaching style. It was time to shake things up. What is VARK? How do you get started?

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Universal Design for Learning: What Educators Need to Know

Waterford

And finally, action and expression refers to providing students with means to engage in class based on those needs. You could give students three options to demonstrate their knowledge: write a book report, draw a scene from the book with a short analysis, or write and perform a skit showing an alternate ending for the book.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

In addition, you’ll create practical tools such as rubrics for teacher observation, surveys for self-assessment reports, and data collection checklists and notes for interviews. Differentiated instruction is one of my favorite methods to help students learn and engage with content as I use technology.

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How to Differentiate Teaching for the advancement of learner Thinking Skills: Simplifying Approaches to Teaching &Learning Series (Part 5)

100mentors

Acknowledge your learners as individuals through differentiated instruction. I distinctly recall my first, although remote, encounter with “differentiated instruction.” I was confident that his report would be a good one until he asked me something like what measures do you take to support talented learners ?