Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Below is an image of teacher responses to the following questions: What are the benefits and challenges of the whole group, teacher-led model from your perspective? Teachers recognize that this whole group, teacher-led lesson presents significant challenges for students. Blended Learning Benefit #1: Student Agency.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 22, 2018

“How do you keep students engaged and on task?” ” I am frequently asked this question when I train teachers on blended learning models. The concern implied in this question is that if I am not working directly with students that they will immediately be off task or disruptive.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Instead of asking for the usual feedback on curriculum, I posed a different question. Different kinds of problems are more or less encouraging of productive struggle, so the content teachers give students plays a role in the stories they tell themselves. By engaging students, it improves classroom management.

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Math Curriculum Education Classroom Management 282

Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The 3 Best Strategies For Teachers To Keep Students Engaged Engaging students in the classroom is a key factor in successful teaching and learning. However, keeping students interested and involved in their education can be a big challenge.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

On the 10th Day of Edtech, our story focuses on student engagement. This means that educators can turn boredom to their advantage by tailoring their content to meet these student needs. The Bored Board can help give students options and eliminate the question, I’m done, now what?

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

When speaking, students should be clear, concise, and prepared to ask deeper questions. Hack 3: Keep it real Interest-driven learning empowers students to independently question, explore, and solve real-world problems. Best of all, it’s great for fostering students’ critical thinking, curiosity, and confidence.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 9, 2024

Most educators will recognize the signs: students sleeping during class, students watching the clock, students daydreaming when they should be paying attention. This means that educators can turn boredom to their advantage by tailoring their content to meet these student needs.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Despite this reality, most learning is teacher-paced, not student-paced. The focus is on the teacher covering content and moving students through lessons on a strict timeline. It begs the question, What is the value of racing through material if students don’t understand or retain it?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

This is a great phrase to remember as districts, schools, and educators increasingly rely on technology tools to support student achievement. believe quiet students seated in front of computer screens is indicative of good classroom management, remembering that our students need to move is always sound instructional strategy.

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Quizzes Learning Styles Lecturing High School 300

Teachers Pay Teachers

MAY 12, 2025

While administrators can do their part by implementing school-wide behavior management strategies, individual classroom management largely falls on teachers. Tackling classroom management can be overwhelming, so weve gathered 13 classroom management strategies to help and inspire you.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Their developing brains observe and question the new, unfamiliar or confusing in an effort to understand the world and their place in it. Schools and districts are tasked with many challenges—from classroom management and test scores to student safety and emotional well-being. Such exploration is key to learning.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

I consistently wanted to integrate community building activities for the students to participate in and feel safe and comfortable. I wanted to establish a sense of belonging for each student, a basic motivation that is common to all humans (Bentrim & Henning, 2022). Here, they were free to ask me any questions.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 7, 2023

I usually have students practice moving through the entire station rotation two or three times, depending on the needs of the students in the class. As a result, students can take a long time to get on task or bombard the teacher with questions, making it challenging for the teacher to facilitate their station.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2024

We aspire to get our students engaged because most of them don’t come to us that way. But how we can do that isn’t always clear, especially since no two students engage the same way. So, what does student engagement look like, then, and how can we measure and nurture it? All rights reserved.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 12, 2023

I consistently wanted to integrate community building activities for the students to participate in and feel safe and comfortable. I wanted to establish a sense of belonging for each student, a basic motivation that is common to all humans (Bentrim & Henning, 2022). Here, they were free to ask me any questions.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Because students control their learning in the PBL approach, differentiation is simple, if needed at all, as students conduct their own learning at their own pace and present their learning in a mode that makes sense to them. Here’s how one educator is advocating for more PBL in classrooms through effective teaching strategies.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

To help cultivate responsible decision-making in classrooms, educators should consider the following questions: How can I help students evaluate situations to identify the potential benefits and consequences of different decisions? Classroom management, promoting positive behaviors and reducing unproductive behaviors.

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Gaggle Speaks

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Do one-to-one programs have a significant positive impact on student engagement and achievement? Let’s take a look at five key questions that pertain to one-to-one learning. Does one-to-one computing raise student achievement and student engagement in learning? It should not be simply left to happenstance.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 27, 2024

We aspire to get our students engaged because most of them don’t come to us that way. But how we can do that isn’t always clear, especially since no two students engage the same way. So, what does student engagement look like, then, and how can we measure and nurture it? All rights reserved.

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Student Engagement Students Participation Secondary Education 59

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2024

As part of this program at Morris County Vocational School, in New Jersey, where I teach, students engage in research about key issues at our school and learn how to plan effective professional development to support the staff. By design, CTE programs consider questions that are relevant to this gap.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2020

With OTIS for educators, every school has access to a Customer Success Specialist to handle rostering, access, LMS integration and planning questions. Eight out of ten teachers reported that they made the decision about whether to use digital products in their classrooms, so communicating the range of PD offerings available is also important.

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Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

Here are a few discussion strategies that have been successful in our college classrooms. Fishbowl This interactive learning method involves half of the students in your class sitting in a circle around the second half of your class seated in the very center of that circle. She began 23 years ago as an elementary classroom educator.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2024

She’s also director of the Center for Teaching Excellence there, which provides faculty with support for instruction, edtech, course design, classroom management and grading. So I asked my students. They see the student loans and the financial obligation of all of this. Can you say more about that?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2020

A big issue when you deploy any device in any school is pushback from teachers who are concerned about classroom management. But with Mosyle, teachers can refocus students’ attention. They can direct students gently by providing them with a couple of apps they’re allowed to use during class time.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 9, 2015

Put required questions (if any) on Smartscreen for students to refer to during their play. Let students work in pairs as they select the website and get started. Remind students that these games require them to be risk-takers to take responsibility for their own learning. Display questions on the Smartscreen.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 14, 2023

Its array of question styles, including multiple choice, true/false, short answer, and fill-in-the-blank, facilitates swift quiz and exam question creation from various document formats such as PDFs, DOCs, and PPTs. The tool tracks students’ progress and adapts the difficulty of questions based on their performance.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 13, 2015

Working in groups, students research opposite sides of an issue, then debate it in front of class. They take questions. Listeners must ask evidence-based questions, look for information that will convince them which side is right. Any questions–email me at askatechteacher@gmail.com. Easily adapted to grades 3-12.

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Teach Hub

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Looking to boost student engagement and collaboration in your classroom? The three-step interview learning strategy is an effective approach that fosters active participation, improves communication, and helps students develop critical life skills like active listening and teamwork.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JULY 31, 2019

Create a scavenger hunt of class stuff (like the gradebook, the class website, the LMS, the classroom management system) and have a spot where parents who find that scavenge leave their name. The answers to questions. Keep track of all parent questions. Answer questions. Ask questions.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

Single-word responses can be turned into a word cloud, giving students a quick visual summary of how they are feeling relative to their peers, reinforcing that even on our bad days we are usually not alone. These questions can also be used as moments for teaching. College Students Experience High Levels of Worry and Stress.

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Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Faculty Focus

MARCH 9, 2023

Here are a few discussion strategies that have been successful in our college classrooms. Fishbowl This interactive learning method involves half of the students in your class sitting in a circle around the second half of your class seated in the very center of that circle. She began 23 years ago as an elementary classroom educator.

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Active Learning Activities Learning Students 98

Faculty Focus

MAY 4, 2023

Talk about their capacity to grow their competencies and how you have seen students of every ilk achieve great things in your time together. Encourage dialog among all students rather than asking discrete questions and hoping one or two students engage. Paint a picture of growing skills and abilities.

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Many schools have resorted to expensive and clunky classroom management software to help monitor behavior while students engage with technology. Locked Mode, a new feature in Google Forms and Classroom, allows educators to lock down the testing environment on school-managed Chromebooks. .

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Quizzes Testing Classroom Management Assignments 69

Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Research shows that initial class sessions are crucial for establishing trust, setting expectations, and capturing student interest (Curzan & Damour, 2000; Davis, 1993; Lucas, 2006; McKeachie, 2002) three elements essential to maintaining engagement across the semester. Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The more I learned about flipping my classroom, the more fears that developed. How would classroom management change if I relinquished control over to my students? Though there were moments I wished I had my slides, my students and I always worked together to figure out where to go next.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Be a learner with your students - As the teacher, you often feel like you need to be ready to answer all student questions and know how to do everything the students will do. Allow students to take the lead and discover their own answers. The solutions they find will amaze you.

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Faculty Focus

MAY 13, 2025

Research shows that initial class sessions are crucial for establishing trust, setting expectations, and capturing student interest (Curzan & Damour, 2000; Davis, 1993; Lucas, 2006; McKeachie, 2002) three elements essential to maintaining engagement across the semester. Student engagement techniques: A handbook for college faculty.

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