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Balance Instruction and Feedback with Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

I would like to see teachers balance the time they spend on instruction with the time they spend facilitating learning and providing feedback as students attempt to do something with that instruction. The challenge for teachers is figuring out how to create the time and space necessary to prioritize feedback. Blended learning can help!

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How video coaching inspires teacher self-reflection

eSchool News

Key points: Video-based coaching offers insight on teacher practices and makes feedback more effective I’m a first-year teacher. Department of Education looked at video-based coaching in about 100 elementary schools. Another group had no video coaching. How can I find success in the classroom?

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Prediction: The future of teacher evaluations is video

eSchool News

At the Metropolitan School District of Decatur Township , we’ve found that one of the pandemic-related changes we’ll be keeping around is the use of video for teacher evaluations. Teachers will overcome anxieties about video evaluations. We hadn’t planned on using video to evaluate our teachers.

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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

I host a podcast called The Balance and wrote a book titled Balance with Blended Learning because I see teachers struggling with balance in every coaching and training session I facilitate. Instead of the teacher being the only source of information, support, or feedback, students develop the skills necessary to be resources for one another.

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Formative Assessment is Key to Being Responsive

Catlin Tucker

Some students will need additional support, scaffolds, feedback, or reteaching to understand key concepts and apply specific strategies, processes, or skills. Formative Assessment Strategies There are different categories of formative assessment, including observational assessments, checks for understanding, and formative feedback.

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Let’s Help Teachers Grow by Coaching — Not Micromanaging — Them

Edsurge

has been a leader in implementing stringent supervision and high-stakes evaluation for teachers, these practices are part of a national education reform movement that seeks to standardize teaching in an (ultimately ineffective) quest to boost student test scores. My experience is not unique: While D.C.

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Grading Less in a District that Requires a Minimum Number of Grades

Catlin Tucker

I encourage teachers to think about the purpose of the work students are doing and evaluate whether it makes sense for them to invest their time and energy grading that work. They pass back that work and students are often left to digest the grade and feedback in isolation. For what purpose?

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