eSchool News

MARCH 20, 2025

These 10 questions can help prospective students make an informed decision and choose a college where they will thrive academically, socially, and financially. Its worth investigating the student-to-faculty ratio and whether professors are actively engaged in teaching or if most instruction is left to teaching assistants.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

Pre-video Activity: Before students watch a video, teachers can generate interest in the topic and create some context for the video content with a pre-video activity. This activity can happen in the classroom or online. Google Forms Kahoot!

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2025

Because PLCs predate national and state standards, teams used to devote a great deal of time to asking and answering the question, What do we want students to learn? Instead, they can focus on other questions, starting with, Where are we going in students learning journeys? What can they do with educational support?

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

This is because brain-based strategies allow students to analyze, synthesize, and apply information actively during lessons, increasing the transfer of that knowledge to long-term memory. Active and Experiential Learning The brain-based learning framework consistently emphasizes the importance of active learning.

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eSchool News

MAY 12, 2025

With that question in mind, I made the root of my work about connection. The activity I built required students to quietly journal outside, using prompts driven by ELA, art, and social studies standards. I asked myself: If a teachers role is to prepare students for the real world, shouldnt we be helping them solve the climate crisis?

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While coaching teachers this month, several expressed a desire to include review and practice activities in their station rotation lessons to help students prepare for end-of-the-semester assessments. questions that the teacher can use to create a variety of review activities. Student-created Kahoot! Teachers who love Kahoot!

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

What learning activities will benefit students being in close physical proximity with the teacher and their peers? Which learning activities will benefit from students having more control over the time, place, and pace of their learning? A great example of an essential question for history or social science is “Whose story is it?”

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2020

In an online course, each of those things becomes a separate learning activity. If teachers consider the time required to complete these activities in a classroom versus the time needed to engage in these activities online, it’s clear that these activities will necessitate significantly more time to complete online.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 20, 2020

I get this question a lot. As I designed my first station rotation lesson, I was driven by three key questions: How could I get my students really engaged in our math lessons? From those questions, the kinesthetic station was born! From those questions, the kinesthetic station was born! Kinesthetic Station.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2025

That’s when it hit medespite years of teaching experience, I’m still searching for ways to spark the same level of engagement whether I’m interacting with students face-to-face or through carefully designed asynchronous activities. For my online students, I’ve adapted this activity using collaborative digital tools.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

In this post, Sarah Dunn , a high school math teacher, shares her favorite technology tools and online activities. ” These concerns and questions cause teachers to fall back on worksheets for practice and application. First, it is essential to remember that it isn’t necessary for technology to be the focus of the entire activity.

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Math Technology Feedback Writing 531

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 10, 2021

” I get this question a lot, so I want to start by highlighting a few of the benefits of flipped instruction and flipped modeling. 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. “What if students do not watch the video?”

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Multiple Choice Questions Blended Learning Discussions Art 543

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Give students a fun “would you rather…” prompt or icebreaker activity to begin their time in the breakout room. Give students a straightforward task with step-by-step directions to minimize confusion and questions when kids are in the breakout rooms. I recommend the following to ease the transition for students.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

There are a series of stations–or learning activities–and students rotate through them. Tips for using the station rotation model in a concurrent classroom: “Rotate” or transition groups of students from activity to activity on a set schedule. Record video directions for each station to reduce questions and confusion.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

A few weeks ago, I published a blog titled “ 8 Ideas Designed to Engage Students In Active Learning Online.” 2 Virtual Jigsaw Activity with Google Slides. Teachers can combine online and offline activities, integrate the home environment, and mix various subjects on their boards. Label each slide with a topic.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

It is also a cognitively challenging task since it requires thinking about the key concepts in a unit or learning cycle and producing a collection of questions to guide students in recalling information and developing a deeper understanding of the material. They can create review games using platforms like Quizizz and Kahoot!

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 4, 2020

This presents myriad opportunities to engage students in active learning online. Provide students with an agenda and a list of discussion questions ahead of time. If teachers provide the discussion questions ahead of time, students who need more time to process the questions have time to do so.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 1, 2021

What questions or wonderings do you have about this topic? Entrance Ticket Design a simple entrance ticket to assess what students know or think about a topic, identify aspects of the topic they are interested in or curious about, and share questions they have about the topic. What do you know or think you know about this topic?

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Learning Knowledge Writing Discussions 543

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2020

It is essential to build in time for them to discuss information and ask questions. Ideally, I would suggest teachers provide the discussion questions ahead of time to allow students to think about them before the conversation. I am a fan of using a goal-setting activity to guide conferencing sessions about student progress.

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Learning Students Discussions Textbooks 546

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

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. What questions or suggestions do they have? What’s working? What are they struggling with?

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment. That way, students can dedicate their cognitive resources to other activities or tasks. A welcome routine also quickly transitions students into an activity and frees the teacher to handle administrative tasks (e.g.,

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Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 4, 2020

I am fielding questions about how to set up online courses , design online lessons , and offer small group instruction and support via video conferencing. When I designed the homeschool schedule we are using to impose structure on our days, I included a range of offline activities since much of the school work they are doing is online.

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Distance Learning Blended Learning Learning Course Design 546

Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

In my previous books, I’ve defined blended learning as the combination of active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline to give learners more control of the time, place, pace, and path of their learning. We will be responding to your questions and posting the answers!

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Universal Design Blended Learning Learning Motivation 545

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

It is also true that engaging students in learning activities online will require (at least initially) that teachers onboard students to those technology tools and support them in learning how to navigate online tasks. It is just a matter of knowing what tools you can lean on to facilitate these different types of activities online.

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Distance Learning Assignments Coaching Activities 546

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Blended learning is the combination of active, engaged learning online and offline. Blended learning prioritizes student agency, striving to give them a high degree of control over the learning activities and environment. What characterizes a psychologically safe space? What did you learn? 2 Driving Creativity. Fear kills creativity.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 19, 2020

So, the question many teachers are asking is, “How should I spend my limited time with students in the classroom or in video conferencing sessions? Students can access content, resources, activities at any time, and from anywhere. Students can access content, resources, and activities at a specific time and location.

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Blended Learning Learning Assignments Activities 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2021

When I work with teachers who are new to blended learning, there is often a knee-jerk concern about the time required to design a lesson that strategically blends active, engaged learning online with active, engaged learning offline. A whole group rotation should be designed with the following questions in mind.

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Blended Learning Learning Feedback Activities 533

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Too often, a teacher’s questions in a video conferencing session are met with long silences. ” First, it is important to remember that participating in a real-time discussion is scary and feels like a risk for students who are shy, anxious, or need more time to process the questions. Facilitating Online Discussions.

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Discussions Participation Questions Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” One way to achieve this is by rotating students from a pre-video activity into the video lesson and ending with a post-video activity. Teachers must strive to make the experience engaging and interactive.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2020

Once they have decided on the question they would like to investigate, they self-pace through the parts of the project and use the slide deck below to document their learning. If you have a fun end-of-the-year project or activity you enjoy using with students, please take a moment to post a comment and share it! 5EsProject.

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Evaluation Online Learning Questions Activities 545

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

Dedicating class time to asking a few simple questions can make a big difference in the way students show up in a class. As a result, it is easy to neglect community-building activities that help students get to know one another and identify commonalities. The questioner’s job is to listen ( really listen). 10 minutes).

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Beliefs Discussions Assignments Blended Learning 494

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2020

I get asked this question frequently as a blended learning coach. Each station rotation is designed to provide a balance of online, offline and teacher-led activities. My online learning activities typically involve the use of short videos, online discussions, student research, podcasts, and various formative assessments.

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Blended Learning Learning History Social Studies 546

Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2021

Blended learning is active, engaged learning online combined with active, engaged learning offline to give students more control over the time, place, pace, and path of their learning. A key aspect of this definition is positioning the students as “active agents” in the lesson or learning experience.

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Blended Learning Learning STEM Learning Outcomes 546

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

I recommend that teachers use a single strategy for all students to use to ask questions or seek additional support. The station rotation is a blended learning model that is composed of a series of stations, or learning activities, that students rotate through. Offline station activities can provide a much-needed break from the screen.

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Attention Blended Learning Activities Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Beginning with an access prior knowledge activity, diagnostic, or pre-assessment can help us better understand what students know, understand, and can do before we design a sequence of lessons or a unit. generate a list of 5, 10, or 15 questions they can include in their pre-assessment. Are the questions clear and unambiguous?

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Learning Students Knowledge Math 457

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2021

It was exciting to see how the addition of a single device enabled my students to drive their learning and engage in meaningful student-centered learning activities. They responded in kind, asking questions, making comments, and leaning into the learning. It is a series of stations, or learning activities, that students rotate through.

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Blended Learning Critical Thinking Communication Participation 535

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

The engagement strategy can ask students to identify the key points, make connections between concepts, ask questions, make predictions, infer meaning, compare and contrast, and/or classify. They only get to proceed to practice and application if they have evidence they completed this engagement activity.

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