Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Booklist Assignment. The Booklist Assignment is designed to help students select a book they’ll enjoy. Reading and Response Assignment. As you build a reading culture, you can assign the “Reading and Response” as classwork, homework, or a combination of the two.

Culture 498

Culture Reading Assignments Blended Learning 498

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. When teachers provide students with the rubric at the start of any assignment or task that will be assessed, the rubric serves as a roadmap. How does using rubrics benefit students?

Fairness 545

Fairness Assignments Feedback Evaluation 545

Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2020

Is there instruction or modeling students need to navigate a task or assignment? As a parent, it is challenging to keep track of all of the individual assignments my two children receive each week on Google Classroom. My suggestion when coaching teachers is to think about their online lessons through the lens of these building blocks.

Distance Learning 546

Distance Learning Assignments Coaching Activities 546

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 27, 2021

Assignment Checklist. These are often the same things that teachers outline in the initial description of the assignment, task, or project. I believe rubrics should be provided at the start of any assignment, task, or project that will be assessed using a rubric. but to avoid making notes on the other student’s work.

Feedback 546

Feedback Peer Review Assignments Online Learning 546

eSchool News

MAY 16, 2025

Still, AI adoption and use remains high, with 70 percent of surveyed students reported that they use AI at least occasionally for their assignments. In addition to feeling they are shortcutting learning, 50 percent of students report not knowing how to get the most benefit from AI in their studies.

Education 290

Education Critical Thinking Ethics Students 290

eSchool News

MAY 8, 2025

Students who would have been performing below standards and assigned intervention support are now being told they are passing. That means students this year did not need to achieve the same mastery of knowledge and skills as kids in previous years.

Education 284

Education Math Exams English 284

eSchool News

MAY 27, 2025

Teachers can integrate SEL strategies directly into academic instruction, such as modeling emotional regulation during challenging tasks or building communication skills through collaborative assignments. These small modifications can significantly improve comprehension and reduce a students frustration.

Students 194

Students Learning Styles Assignments Intelligence 194

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 5, 2021

Create an assignment in your learning management system (LMS) and post the slideshow overview with instructions. Post separate assignments for each online station, so students can access all of the resources and digital documents they need to complete the assignments.

Blended Learning 521

Blended Learning Teachers Assignments Language 521

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Do they feel the work assigned is interesting, engaging, and relevant? They are navigating the experiences, assignments, routines, and workflows that we are assigning and using. What has been your favorite activity, assignment, or routine? So, if students are not doing the asynchronous work, we need to ask them why.

Learning 544

Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 19, 2020

Students work independently to complete assignments and tasks. Students have access to teacher and peer support while completing assignments and tasks. Students may have some control over the pace of their learning, but they do not control the time or the place.

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Learning Assignments Activities 546

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

auditory processing, attention deficit, lack of background knowledge or vocabulary, absences), teachers record video instruction and assign those videos for homework. The benefit of assigning video instruction for homework is that students can control the time, place, and pace of the learning experience when they watch the video at home.

Blended Learning 465

Blended Learning Students Assignments Lecturing 465

eSchool News

MAY 5, 2025

Sometimes they will cold call students, while other times they will ask students to share what they learned after theyve had a chance to read the assigned material or discuss it with their classmates in groups. Multiple times in any class period, teachers call on students to contribute to the lesson of the day.

Culture 274

Culture Feedback Language Languages 274

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 1, 2020

Their school days tend to be a blur of information, assignments, and activities. Students rarely recognize how much progress they are making over the course of a semester or school year. However, if students do not appreciate their growth over time, it may be harder to understand the value of the work they are doing or stay motivated.

Students 546

Students Motivation Assignments Activities 546

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 23, 2021

As I support teachers navigating this teaching assignment, I’m honest about the challenges that the concurrent classroom presents. I am also solution-oriented, so this webinar is about making it work. After all, education is one “make it work” moment after another!

Teaching 532

Teaching Blended Learning Assignments Online Learning 532

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 28, 2021

Ability to maintain one calendar for teachers who share the same students, which helps to avoid assigning “big assignments” like assessments and essays at the same time. Events must be copied by hand. It can be easily shared with other teachers or administrators.

Essay 545

Essay Assignments Writing Middle School 545

eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2024

It takes only seconds to plug a writing prompt into a generative AI tool and receive a completed assignment. The bottom line: When students are confident in their writing skills, they will be less tempted to run directly to AI to generate a writing assignment. offers a tool to make assignments AI-resistant.) MagicSchool.AI

Writing 328

Writing Essay Plagiarism Assignments 328

Faculty Focus

MAY 20, 2025

In a course that requires out-of-class reading, that conversation is highly reliant on students doing their part and completing the assigned reading.However, in recent semesters, students engaging in focused reading in which they annotate text is dwindling. It seems as if a quick scan of one of the assigned pages is the best effort.

Instructors 83

Instructors Assignments Participation Students 83

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Wiggins says the best feedback is: Goal-oriented or referenced: Feedback should clarify the goals of the assignment or task, guiding students toward a clear desired result or outcome. Teachers still play a central role, inputting assignments, selecting or creating rubrics, and determining how many attempts a student has to submit an answer.

Feedback 344

Feedback Coaching Assignments Motivation 344

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Self-assessing Practice and Review Too often, when teachers assign review and practice in class or for homework, the responsibility for checking the accuracy of that work falls on the teacher. As a result, students miss out on the opportunity to recognize their strengths, identify their limitations, and target areas for growth.

Evaluation 426

Evaluation Assignments Failure Discussions 426

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 14, 2020

They can use Google Classroom to create an assignment and “make a copy” for each student. That way, teachers can pull individual students into a breakout room to check-in about progress, provide feedback on student work, or conduct a side-by-side assessment to grade an assignment that students have already completed.

Learning 546

Learning Assignments Universal Design Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 17, 2020

It also isn’t clear to me how much work their teachers will assign during this school closure. I did not want to spend my days at home engaged in endless debates about how my kids would spend their time. Even though they are not going to school, I want them to continue learning.

Blended Learning 522

Blended Learning Coaching History Assignments 522

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 10, 2021

When I began my doctoral program, one of my first assignments was to create a vision board. I recommend that you create your own vision board in advance of assigning this activity to your students. I was instructed to imagine my life in the future and create a visual to represent what I wanted that reality to look like.

Assignments 412

Assignments Motivation Writing Achievement 412

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 29, 2020

One way to help students prepare for an online discussion is with a planning document that is shared like any other assignment at the start of the week. Anything else I need to communicate to them can come in an email, assignment post, or screencast. Students may be shy or need more time to process the questions.

Discussions 546

Discussions Participation Questions Assignments 546

eSchool News

APRIL 25, 2025

A recent Google blog post outlines how four different school districts are leveraging Google AI tools, like Gemini and NotebookLM, for innovative teaching and learning.

Education 214

Education Quizzes Coaching Special Education 214

eSchool News

MAY 7, 2025

Our ultimate assignment is to create cyber-secure classrooms for future learners. Ultimately, safeguarding student data and securing the digital future of education is not a solo effort–it’s a joint venture.

Local Government 269

Local Government Counselling Intelligence History 269

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Educators can even tap student enthusiasm for new technology by assigning–and assessing student learning using–multimedia projects. Secret 1: Multimedia assignments. These types of assignments are also harder to farm out to AI! Motivate students to act by incorporating action planning into assignments.

Teaching 344

Teaching Critical Thinking Assignments Learning 344

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As I’ve said in previous blog posts, teaching in a concurrent classroom is the most challenging teaching assignment I can imagine. Unfortunately, an increasing number of teachers are navigating this challenging teaching assignment.

Evaluation 546

Evaluation Feedback Writing Assignments 546

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 2, 2020

Either assign students a particular slide (by writing their names at the bottom of each slide) or allow students to select the slide they want to work on. Teachers can strategically assign slides to subtly differentiate learning or give students a degree of agency by allowing them to choose their slides. Label each slide with a topic.

Students 546

Students Math Writing Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

instruction, scaffolds, practice, assignments). Teachers can create a playlist around a unit of study, a formal writing assignment, or a project. Benefits of the station rotation model: Create smaller learning communities within the larger class. Spend time working directly with small groups of students. Differentiate learning (e.g.,

Blended Learning 545

Blended Learning Teaching Learning Students 545

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Key points: ChatGPT is here to stay, and it’s wise to now consider it a part of learning In fact, every assignment moving forward must be graded with ChatGPT in mind See related article: How educators can navigate AI-driven plagiarism You may have heard of ChatGPT. What it does mean is that we must assume that they might.

Essay 337

Essay Plagiarism Assignments Learning 337

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

discussion of a text or collaborative assignment), I suggest teachers begin with a fun warm-up question to break the ice. #3 I randomly assigned pairs to breakout rooms, provided a link to the dialogic interview document, and gave them 20 minutes to engage in these conversations. 3 Go Deeper with a Dialogic Interview Format.

Beliefs 492

Beliefs Discussions Assignments Blended Learning 492

Catlin Tucker

JUNE 18, 2023

However, I often hear the question, “Can I use the flipped classroom if I don’t assign homework?” Some teachers do not assign homework. Despite these potential pitfalls, flipped instruction retains its value even when videos are not assigned for homework.

Lecturing 431

Lecturing Knowledge Assignments Writing 431

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 1, 2021

As I work with teachers in this challenging teaching assignment, we set up a two-part protocol for questions. Often, the students in class monopolize the teacher’s time and attention because they can raise a hand or blurt out a question. Step 1: Use Your Resources. LMS Messaging System. Remind App.

Questions 453

Questions Students Attention Assignments 453

Catlin Tucker

JULY 9, 2020

This adds a social component to the learning task, which can help students who are working on the assignment at home feel connected to their peers. The more creative the assignments, the more likely students are to lean into the learning. Google Map Adventures.

Active Learning 546

Active Learning Activities Learning Students 546

eSchool News

OCTOBER 10, 2023

However, as students leverage generative AI for assignments and “Cheat detectors” prove ineffective in detecting AI-generated output, school administrators must take proactive measures to safeguard the authenticity of student assignments and promote ethical use. Certainly, none of us want to create additional digital inequities.

Academic Integrity 306

Academic Integrity Ethics Assignments Evaluation 306

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Many teachers already are rethinking assessments and assignments to shift the question from how students will use AI to cheat, to how students can learn to use AI responsibly. Assignments that ask students to produce answers using AI can encourage students to critically consider the information provided.

Plagiarism 331

Plagiarism Education Essay Assignments 331

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Teachers can assign different layers to different groups of students or select particular layers based on the type of artwork students are analyzing. As an English teacher, I know how challenging it is to get students to dig deep and analyze the layers in a poem, short story, or novel. Thinking Routine: Parts, People, Interactions.

Art 520

Art English Critical Thinking History 520