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Designing a Standards-aligned Choice Board (with AI)

Catlin Tucker

Simultaneously, choice boards free teachers to focus their time and attention on working with individual students or small-group instruction, providing more personalized support or challenge. This can lead to better learning outcomes for everyone. Below are some of my favorite choice board designs.

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How to Maximize the 4 C’s in Your Classroom

EdTechTeam

Evidence of the need for these 4 C’s is embedded in Universal Design for Learning (UDL). To create truly student centered, personalized learning opportunities, teachers must design lessons with intention. By adding a “C” to a lesson, we ramp up rigor and engagement. I was happily surprised at this unintended outcome!

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Using The Station Rotation Model in Math

Catlin Tucker

Offline-Station Students engage in spiral review, revisiting and completing practice problems introduced the previous day or week. Online Station Students can self-pace through personalized practice online, engage in collaborative problem-solving, complete a pre-assessment/diagnostic, or work on a performance task.

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

Look at this course Fostering Student Interaction in Online Learning THE VERSATILE BLOCK Using the best practices from this course, you will be able to help increase student-to-student engagement and foster a greater love of learning. Helping students progress quickly is the challenge facing schools everywhere.

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April 22 Learning Revolution Mini-Conference: Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning: Survive, Thrive, & Plan for What Comes Next

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Session attendees will takeaway some basic skills and practices that can lead them to design and deliver more engaging webinars. One outcome of the coronavirus crisis is that webinars are likely to emerge as the standard for remote professional development for the foreseeable future. We can do better.

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Wednesday's "Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning" Mini-Conference - New Sessions Added

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Bell 1:30 PM Empowering Students in a Distance Learning Environment with John Spencer (60 minutes) 3:00 PM Personalizing the Online Classroom Through Creative Teaching and Learning (60 minutes) with Candy Mowen 4:00 PM Rethinking Students Evaluations as a Tool to Improve Online Instruction (30 minutes) with Steven J. We can do better.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) draws its inspiration from the broader concept of Universal Design (UD), initially pioneered in architecture. Our focus in this post is on Universal Design for Learning, popularly known by the acronym UDL. UD aims for inclusive access to architectural spaces for all users.

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