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Teacher Tips: Starting the Year with Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

The station rotation model is a great way to introduce your class expectations to a new group of students while simultaneously building relationships and developing your class community. Station Rotation Preparation Tips: Create an overview of the first 2-3 weeks of school in your Google calendar planner or use Catlin Tucker’s template.

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Design Thinking Process and UDL Planning Tool for STEM, STEAM, Maker Education

User Generated Education

Idea Generation: Learners, typically working in small groups, generate lots of ideas and questions to ask to solve the design thinking problem or challenge. Sketch Design: A blueprint or sketch of the selected design is created through pencil and paper or through an online tool such as Google Draw or Sketchup.

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Pre-assessment is Key to Designing with Intention

Catlin Tucker

At a recent workshop, a teacher posed a compelling question about the effectiveness of small-group versus whole-group instruction. This is only possible when we rely on instructional strategies and models that free the teacher to work with small groups to tailor their instruction and support.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

Despite my familiarity with all of the ISTE Standards, I have found that I am thinking much more deeply about the ISTE Standards for Educators as I go through this process with my cohort (which I appreciate)… One of our activities asked us to reflect on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines. They can embed audio or video.

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5 ways a centralized LMS can support UDL

eSchool News

Applicable to every student in every classroom, the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles of offering multiple means of representation, action and expression, and engagement help teachers leverage every child’s strengths while supporting a very personalized learning path based on student choice. 5 ways our LMS supports UDL.

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When Education Is Designed for All Learners

Edsurge

The Academically Intellectually Gifted (AIG) Certified and Talent Development (TD) Catalyst teacher works with groups of gifted and advanced learners across the Charlotte-Mecklenburg school district in North Carolina. EdSurge: How do you bring the principles of UDL into your classroom—with or without the help of technology?

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Instead, they can spend more time facilitating learning and working directly with small groups of students. It can be an online station in a station rotation , on-demand video content in a playlist , or a self-paced online activity in a whole group rotation. “But, I don’t want to send videos home with students.”

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