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Peer Feedback: Making It Meaningful

Catlin Tucker

Feedback is how students feel seen and supported. When we give feedback as students work, we signal that the work they are doing is important, and we care about their progress. Teachers want to give students timely, focused, and actionable feedback, yet it is easy to neglect. Peer Feedback Choice Board.

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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

I would like to see teachers balance the time they spend on instruction with the time they spend facilitating learning and providing feedback as students attempt to do something with that instruction. The challenge for teachers is figuring out how to create the time and space necessary to prioritize feedback. Blended learning can help!

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How and When to Give Feedback

Catlin Tucker

Feedback is a powerful tool that can profoundly impact student learning and success. However, not all feedback is created equal; some approaches to feedback can propel students toward growth, while others may hinder their progress. What is the secret to effective feedback?

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Rethinking student assessment: Tools and strategies for meaningful evaluation

eSchool News

Here are five powerful resources that can transform how you evaluate student progress. It also facilitates peer and teacher feedback, making assessment a more collaborative process. Through the easy-to-use templates, educators can create real-time polls to assess knowledge, check for misconceptions, or gather feedback.

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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

Blended learning is “active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over time, place, pace, and/or path of their learning.” They are not passive consumers but rather active participants. If not, can you modify your design to create more balance?

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Using a Flip Flop Design for the Concurrent Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Teachers who have traditionally planned a whole group lesson that moves the class, as a unit, through a series of learning activities find it nearly impossible to hold their students’ attention in the concurrent classroom. Finally, I would encourage teachers to end their lessons with an exit ticket activity. What’s working?

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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Formative Assessment Strategies There are different categories of formative assessment, including observational assessments, checks for understanding, and formative feedback.

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