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Standard-aligned Rubrics: Assessing Progress Toward Firm Goals While Allowing for Flexible Means

Catlin Tucker

In our book UDL and Blended Learning , Dr. Katie Novak and I encourage teachers to work toward firm, often standards-aligned, goals. 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.

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Rethink Your Grading Practices

Catlin Tucker

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. Students need feedback to improve their skills.

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Stop Taking Grading Home

Catlin Tucker

Students honed their research skills, organized their information, watched flipped videos on how to complete various aspects of the paper, like citing properly, and they received detailed feedback from me the entire way through! I tried to keep the scope of what I was editing narrow enough to provide every student with detailed feedback.

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5 Ways to Design Your Teacher-led Station

Catlin Tucker

In my work as a blended learning coach, I observe a lot of teachers facilitating blended lessons. 4 Real-Time Feedback. It also means you don’t have to take stacks of rough drafts home to give students feedback. If they are writing a formal essay, they might bring their introduction paragraphs.

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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

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. The depth and breadth of research can vary greatly among students, benefiting from a flexible timeline.

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Creating Inclusive Classrooms with Co-Teaching and the Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Students work through examples where they compare data before and after a reaction to determine if a chemical change has occurred, with the teacher providing targeted support and feedback. Teacher 2 might also provide feedback on their data collection methods and help troubleshoot any issues that surface during the planning phase.

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Inside Google’s NYC Teacher’s Lounge

Edsurge

“One of the topics that were really important to educators was ‘self-directed learning,’” says Garrison. So her team took the theme and broke it down into five parts: flipped classrooms, blended learning, back to basics, executive functioning skills, and student self-assessment and self-regulation.

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