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 Language 545

k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

With small class sizes, individualized instruction, and a focus on executive functioning, social-emotional growth, and life skills, AEF offers a unique educational experience tailored to each students needs. Maybe they forget to turn in assignments, have trouble organizing their thoughts, or feel overwhelmed by fast-paced lessons.

Skills 138

Skills Schools Learning Students 138

Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2021

these are critical skills students need to develop if they are going to become expert learners who are motivated, resourceful, strategic, and capable of advocating for themselves. Instead of the teacher being the only source of information, support, or feedback, students develop the skills necessary to be resources for one another.

Blended Learning 519

Blended Learning Feedback Learning Beliefs 519

Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

.” This reasoning leaves teachers with piles of work to grade, but I wonder how much of that time spent assigning points to student work results in improved student performance. By the end of the semester, I had over a hundred assignments in my grade book. Feedback on a finished product is not useful to students.

Grades 420

Grades Feedback Assignments Motivation 420

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 28, 2017

I encouraged teachers to stop taking grading home for two simple reasons: Grading in isolation robs us of the opportunity to have conversations with students as we assess their work and, ultimately, makes feedback one-sided and less effective. Instead, I select 2 or 3 specific skills to assess for a score.

Grades 420

Grades Blended Learning Essay Feedback 420

Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

If the learning objective is for students to craft a strong argument, you can provide them with different levels of support and different ways of demonstrating that skill. First, when designing any learning experience or learning cycle, I encourage teachers to identify target standards or skills that will frame and focus their design work.

Essay 520

Essay Blended Learning Feedback Writing 520

Catlin Tucker

JULY 2, 2019

When I facilitate training sessions or coach teachers, I encourage them to shift feedback and assessment into the classroom where student progress can be an ongoing conversation. Too often, teachers assign work that students complete in isolation. 1 Grade Individual Skills & Enter Those Assessment Scores Separately.

Grades 419

Grades Assignments Evaluation Coaching 419

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

Do they feel the work assigned is interesting, engaging, and relevant? 4 Ask students for feedback. Feedback typically flows from teacher to student, but feedback should be a two-way street. They are navigating the experiences, assignments, routines, and workflows that we are assigning and using.

Learning 544

Learning Blended Learning Assignments Feedback 544

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 22, 2024

As students move through a lesson, some acquire information and skills more quickly than others. Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. formal writing assignment, performance task, project).

Feedback 428

Feedback Quizzes Coaching Discussions 428

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Giving regular feedback to roughly 100 middle and high schoolers has been my greatest challenge as an English and writing teacher, and it hit home for me sometime in 2013. My challenges with the feedback load were officially impacting my health and family life. Students were getting the feedback they needed faster.

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Feedback Peer Review Teaching Writing 218

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. This also teaches students to hone their self-directed learning skills as they own more of the responsibility for their learning.

Teachers 479

Teachers Art Feedback Writing 479

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a previous post, I described how blended learning models could make this challenging teaching assignment more manageable ; however, that post assumes that teachers are familiar with blended learning. Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment. Welcome Task or Bell Ringer.

Blended Learning 546

Blended Learning Coaching Feedback Discussions 546

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 29, 2016

Instead, there are multiple stations designed to challenge students at various skill levels. I typically design a One Stop Differentiated Station Rotation Lesson if we are focusing on a specific skill, like reading, writing or grammar, where there is a large degree of variation in the skills or abilities within a single class.

Blended Learning 406

Blended Learning Assignments Writing Feedback 406

Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. Sure, the skills of writing may have been practiced, but so what? To what end?

Assignments 199

Assignments Essay History Social Studies 199

Catlin Tucker

MAY 20, 2023

How can formative assessment data help students to develop their metacognitive skills? These informal assessments provide information to the teacher about students’ understanding of the material being covered and the skills being introduced. It provides immediate and ongoing feedback to both the teacher and the student.

Metacognitive Skills 481

Metacognitive Skills Universal Design Blended Learning Evaluation 481

k12 Digest

MAY 15, 2025

These AI-powered assistants serve as perpetually available guides, providing instant feedback, adaptive challenges, and personalised pathways through educational content. Unlike traditional educational models, where feedback loops stretch across days or weeks, virtual tutors close these loops in seconds.

Education 154

Education Learning Knowledge Feedback 154

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2017

I’ve blogged about grading for mastery of skills instead of the accumulation of points and ditching my traditional grade book in favor of an ongoing assessment document. I identify target skills and assess these critical skills over the course of the grading period.

Grades 419

Grades Essay Exams English 419

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 25, 2019

If teachers are assigning homework, it would be more powerful to use that practice to encourage students to reflect on their progress and identify the gaps in their understanding of concepts and skills. 4 Real-Time Feedback. It also means you don’t have to take stacks of rough drafts home to give students feedback.

Teachers 420

Teachers Essay Feedback Quizzes 420

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 29, 2016

I believed that team teaching and sharing the same population of students in a shared space would allow us to make important cross-curricular connections, delve into more meaningful project-based learning, and provide more individualized support and feedback. Marika and I use Google Classroom to assign and manage our students’ work.

Teaching 385

Teaching English Feedback Assignments 385

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 3, 2016

. ” My goal was to shift the conversation away from the accumulation of points and, instead, focus on the development of skills. Although I appreciated the immediate change that took place when I began grading based on my students’ ability to master specific skills, I knew I wanted to go even further this year as I began N.E.W.

Grades 420

Grades Feedback English Evaluation 420

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

Additionally, using a digital format creates space for students to document their learning and for teachers to provide feedback. Teachers can also use the document or slide deck to provide feedback by commenting directly on the document or recording audio notes with Mote and attaching them to the document or slide deck.

Blended Learning 434

Blended Learning Feedback Universal Design Art 434

Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 28, 2020

I want students to understand that their grades are a reflection of their skills, and they are capable of improving those skills at any time. I want students to complete assignments because they are meaningful, interesting, and rewarding, not because they are worth points. Teachers must partner with their students!

Blended Learning 343

Blended Learning Feedback Learning Communication 343

Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2018

After hours of grading and providing thoughtful feedback, there is little incentive for students to revise or improve that piece of writing. In a classroom where the student does the work, that same assignment could have a dramatically different outcome. It’s no mystery why this approach is so draining and frustrating.

Blended Learning 419

Blended Learning Learning Students Feedback 419

Catlin Tucker

APRIL 11, 2019

It’s my job to help them develop the skills and confidence needed to design and drive their learning. I select eight target skills for the unit. These are skills we have already covered together, but they are ones that I think they still need to spend time developing. We spend the entire year building up to it. Yes and no.

Students 420

Students Discussions Reading Feedback 420

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This has been accompanied by a growing demand for educators to provide quality feedback in a timely manner. Krystina Wood As a 13-year veteran at Toledo High School in Toledo, Washington, Wood was looking for a way to improve her feedback loop with students. I wasn’t seeing everything and wasn’t giving feedback on all of their work.

Feedback 187

Feedback Math Teachers Students 187

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. homework, classwork, projects, tests, and projects), I identified the main skills we would be focusing on developing in this class and used those to create my gradebook categories.

Grades 420

Grades Essay Assignments Skills 420

eSchool News

JULY 23, 2021

But student collaboration is a cornerstone of 21st-century skill-building, teaching students how to listen to others, build off of ideas that aren’t their own, compromise, and work as a team. Students use Drawp creativity tools to add drawings, voice recordings, text, and photos to assignments.

Hybrid Learning 312

Hybrid Learning Students Assignments Feedback 312

eSchool News

JULY 1, 2024

They could be implemented at the institutional level, but instructors should be given the opportunity to determine the level of generative AI tool use at the course or even the assignment level. In other courses, I restrict the use of generative AI tools to particular uses for specific assignments.

Ethics 321

Ethics Instructors Education Academic Integrity 321

Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2020

and Chart A New Course: A Guide to Teaching Essential Skills for Tomorrow’s World ?. As you experiment with new teaching strategies and technology tools, how are you gathering feedback from students? How often do you ask for feedback? If so, how do you capture your reflections on a particular lesson, strategy, or assignment?

Feedback 317

Feedback Assignments Language Languages 317

Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 24, 2020

As I support teachers struggling to navigate the demands of the concurrent classroom, I find myself continually returning to the station rotation model as a strategy to design and facilitate learning for this challenging teaching assignment. First, I want to identify a few of the challenges I observe in concurrent classrooms.

Attention 546

Attention Blended Learning Activities Feedback 546

Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 12, 2019

We must explicitly teach these skills and give students time in class to practice them. Starting the year with routines designed to encourage students to develop their metacognitive skills can yield deeper learning all year long. What are you assigning and why? What is the learning objective or value of each assignment?

Metacognitive Skills 366

Metacognitive Skills Schools Blended Learning Evaluation 366

eSchool News

JANUARY 22, 2025

With infinite information at their fingertips, how do we equip this new type of student with the skills to interpret, problem solve, and think critically about the information they encounter when we are not always the ones delivering it to them? The use of design thinking can foster a healthy relationship with failure within students.

Failure 306

Failure Critical Thinking Essay Feedback 306

eSchool News

AUGUST 28, 2023

Within HMH’s connected literacy solution, Writable ’s new GenAI capabilities increase the impact teachers can have by engaging more students with targeted feedback and motivating better writing in the moment. This approach to AI is teacher-guided, allowing teachers to incorporate AI-suggested feedback and scores into their instruction.

Plagiarism 246

Plagiarism Teachers Feedback Essay 246

eSchool News

APRIL 2, 2025

Differentiated instruction is essential, but time constraints, large class sizes, and varying skill levels make personalized learning difficult. On Edia’s platform, an AI coach reads students’ work and gives them personalized feedback based on their mistakes so they can think about their answers, try again, and master concepts.

Coaching 297

Coaching Math Students Assignments 297

Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Small-scale playlists may focus on introducing students to a particular concept or skill. Articulate Learning Objectives Articulating learning objectives creates clarity about what students are working toward in terms of understanding specific concepts and mastering specific skills. Does a playlist have to be an individual endeavor?

Blended Learning 420

Blended Learning Learning Coaching Discussions 420

eSchool News

AUGUST 13, 2024

peek-a-boo) encourages movement and interaction, which aids in developing essential cognitive skills, such as object permanence. Language skills can be nurtured through storytelling, singing, and conversations, which encourages children to express their thoughts and feelings. Sensory experiences (i.e., Play-based learning (i.e.,

Cognitive Development 300

Cognitive Development Students Secondary Education Assignments 300

Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 21, 2019

Metacognitive skills must be taught. They need to set academic goals, monitor and track their progress and reflect regularly on the work they are doing and what it reveals about their skill set. However, teaching these skills and helping students to develop their metacognitive muscles takes time and practice.

Metacognitive Skills 336

Metacognitive Skills Blended Learning Coaching Feedback 336