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Teacher Tips: Starting the Year with Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Create an overview of the rotations with links to resources and documents. I suggest adding the link to this overview document to your digital planner. Feel free to make a copy of the documents and tailor them to your needs. Feel free to make a copy of the documents and tailor them to your needs.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Instead, give them opportunities to document their thinking with drawings and art. Engagement Strategy #4 Pair the Video with an Online Discussion Prompt. You can learn more about universally designing blended learning to give students more agency in my book UDL and Blended Learning or by taking my online, self-paced courses.

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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

They may jump in and out of digital documents leaving comments, suggestions, and linking students to additional resources to help them develop and improve their work. In a station rotation , the teacher-led station is devoted to giving focused feedback on a specific element of the students’ work.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

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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Embrace Flexibility with Universally Designed Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

3 Choose Your Learning Path Adventure. One of my favorite blog posts to write last year was my choose your learning path adventure ! When working with Dr. Katie Novak on UDL and Blended Learning , we provided an example of transforming an Engage NY/Eureka elementary math lesson into a choose your learning path adventure.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Action and Expression

Catlin Tucker

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. Check out my self-paced online course.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Representation

Catlin Tucker

In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences.