Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work. Without going into the weeds debating the value of grades in general, I want to propose a flowchart that I use when coaching teachers to help them evaluate where to invest their time and energy resources.

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k12 Digest

MAY 19, 2025

Her career spans roles as an elementary teacher, instructional coach, mentor, special education administrator, and elementary school principal. Lecture is a common passive learning practice. And while there is some value to lecture and some passive learning strategies, there is a much greater benefit from active learning strategies.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

While traditional lecture-based sessions still exist, an increasingly common approach is to offer a dynamic range of opportunities–from hands-on workshops and interactive learning experiences to flexible, self-paced online learning. While single-session trainings are still common, they often fail to sustain behavioral changes.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 1, 2024

Key points: When students are engaged, they come to school How video coaching inspires teacher self-reflection i I’m a first-year teacher. Students of any age can only listen to a lecture so long before they start tuning the teacher out completely. How can I find success in the classroom? Tragically, it’s the kids.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 15, 2023

According to conversations in a community of practice that I convene with state education agency literacy leaders, a major focus will be building capacity for coaches to become the conduit between building knowledge and implementing practices aligned to the science of reading.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Synchronous interaction also gives teachers the opportunity to model and explain how to use technology, to coach students on asynchronous assignments, and to provide guidance or “course corrections” in real-time. Extensive lecturing is not a good use of your time, or learners’ time, in synchronous online learning.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

This is perhaps the greatest misconception about my goals as a teacher coach and, after speaking with colleagues in similar roles at schools around the country, I know I’m not the only one who wants to debunk this assumption. Within his talk he exclaimed, “Lectures are only terrible if you are a terrible lecturer!”

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eSchool News

JUNE 19, 2017

Even when students aren’t sitting through lectures, they’re still accustomed to letting their teachers dictate the pace, style, and direction of learning. During these projects, teachers serve as coaches and guides, helping students craft polished final products, while allowing them independence and flexibility.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2016

Rather than listening to lectures, teachers want to apply learning through demonstrations or modeling and practice. A growing body of research is singling out two kinds of PD with the potential to check all these boxes and impact student achievement: coaching and collaboration. Coaching is a perfect example. Interactive.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2020

From simple commands that retrieve stored information to a future where voice-activated AI coaches help us set and reach educational goals across a lifetime, the potential for growth is undeniable. One of them was just listening to lectures, a core experience: “Play my next lecture.” AI for Everyone by Andrew Ng.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 4, 2023

It is with this idea in mind that I have sought out and implemented active technology tools in my career as a school librarian and as an athletic coach. Technology is an amazing tool, but just like any lecture, tech is subject to the “bottom endurance” rule.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

He has ChatGPT on his phone and his iPad, and our 45-minute conversation is peppered with references to Coursera’s newest personal learning assistant, “Coach.” Coach is going to be both reactive and proactive for learners. CoRise, though, actually makes learners pencil live lectures into their calendars. “It

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2022

In the pandemic many higher ed faculty, forced onto Zoom and other videoconferencing platforms, have continued teaching online just as they always did face to face, delivering lectures over streaming video as they did in person. I never delivered a lecture in real time on Zoom.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2025

Head Coach Robert Davis led the effort to build the Golf Training Lab, which includes two golf simulator bays featuring Carls Place 16×10 impact screens and ProTee VX launch monitors. The company’s products are available across North America through leading value-added distributors, resellers, and retailers. Because it matters.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning. Related : 3 ways to bring teacher PD into the 21st century 6 key elements to build a successful coaching program For more news on teacher supports, visit eSN’s Educational Leadership page

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

When students came to me for one-on-one coaching, I had to ask them where they needed help and hope that they were self-aware enough to know. Effective teachers need to be good at a lot of things—delivering compelling lectures, creating and grading homework and assessments, etc.—but This is where machine learning comes in.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

What I have learned from coaching hundreds of students over two decades is that while some students need intensive support, others just need me to get out of their way. Lecturing and quizzing on content is more efficient than coaching and mentoring groups of students through real-world problems.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2023

Someone who values conformity might emphasize strict due dates, teacher-enforced rules and consequences, and lecture-style learning. Related : 3 ways to bring teacher PD into the 21st century 6 key elements to build a successful coaching program. Are you a teacher who values conformity over free thinking and expression?

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2020

It’s not at all an easy shift to make overnight, particularly for those who aren’t used to sitting on a computer recording or listening to lectures. It took ten minutes for a student to notice I was talking to them from the bridge of a Star Destroyer.” — David Hill, Senior Lecturer at University of Portsmouth (Portsmouth, United Kingdom) 7.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2020

It’s really hard to have a routine with changing expectations week by week,” said Angela Estrella, an instructional coach at the Stanford University Graduate School of Education. In other words, we don’t want teachers to be lecturing and just expecting students to be sitting in front of a screen and taking notes,” Gallagher adds.

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Edsurge

APRIL 21, 2021

For instance, each course must contain at least 30 minutes of video and at least five separate lectures. One example is Deborah Grayson Riegel, a speaking coach who has taught courses at the business schools of both the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia. In fact, the company says 80 percent of its courses on the site are free.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

On the flip side, others assert that ChatGPT is a major step toward equity that could democratize learning for all, providing equitable access to knowledge and personalized coaching and support that used to only be available to more wealthy and privileged students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2017

Students at a community college could supplement their math class with lectures from MIT. People can now work through a series of lectures while they commute or complete coursework on a mobile phone between shifts. The risk is that we leave out students who can’t pay in the equivalent of the large lecture hall.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

We enrolled in the fellowship program, which began with a one-week training in the summer of 2019, put on by the nonprofit that developed the model, and extended into coaching throughout the current school year. It turned out that our sixth-grade English and science classes thrived under the model.

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2024

Instructional Technology Coach, Northern Mariana Islands Public School System (Saipan, Northern Mariana Islands) Jackie Patanio, Executive Director of School Partnerships, Modernization and Planning-EdTech, New York City Public Schools (New York, NY) Shane Saeed, Ed.D., Elementary ELA Curriculum Coordinator, St.

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eSchool News

JULY 14, 2016

These are strategies I have used in my experience in education, which began in a room with one computer and no projector, as well as strategies I have helped teachers to implement in my role as a professional development consultant and instructional coach. Making do with what we have (and possibly spending a couple bucks).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 7, 2016

Nina Ronæs, a lecturer in the department of marketing at BI, is used to posting prompts for students in online channels. AdmitHub provides a “virtual campus coach”—a chatbot—that provides text-based support for students 24/7. Students are also more open to talking to chatbots than Nilsen says he anticipated.

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Edsurge

MARCH 21, 2017

Many flip lessons , using videos, websites, and digital presentations rather than traditional lectures. Alyssa Tormala ( @alytormala ) is the Instructional Technology Coach and the Information Science Department Chair at St. They hold online discussions, offer design challenges and genius hours , and share feedback digitally.

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eSchool News

JULY 19, 2016

K-12 classroom instructors, instructional coaches, and educational administrators are invited to enroll. The teaching team consists of Stanford Professor Emeritus Kenji Hakuta, Senior Researcher Dr. Jeff Zwiers and Lecturer Dr. Sara Rutherford-Quach.

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Faculty Focus

JANUARY 15, 2023

During a two-hour lecture, the average student spends 37 minutes doing non-class related activities on their devices (Ravizza et. Students claim that instructors aren’t actually teaching, and instructors can face negative reactions to a change in their lecturing methods that were already difficult to create and introduce.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 18, 2020

Having previously leaned toward large-group lectures, we began using small groups to teach straight coding to our campers. There are rules to follow and you need to learn those rules from a good coach, not a game. They wanted to become real-life coders and they weren’t headed in that direction. We turned to the kids themselves.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Another challenge that the sector is witnessing, perhaps more in the pedagogical dimension than the technological, involves the role of the educator, whether in-person, online, hybrid, high-flex or what have you, evolving from exclusively functioning as a lecturer to a facilitator or a coach.

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Faculty Focus

JUNE 25, 2023

They made declarative statements via lectures throughout class sessions, expecting students to “take it all in” like sponges. And then came coach training. As with teaching, I came to coaching late. I was skeptical about the role of coaching at first. Rather than coach students one-on-one, I coached the class as a system.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 24, 2018

As an instructional coach at Fairbanks Middle School in Milford Center, Ohio, I have been a core part of charting a new path for PD that uses a blended model of professional learning. The topics we cover through our blended PD require more serious thought, so they can’t be digested in a two-hour lecture to the staff.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

Unfortunately, most massive open online course (MOOC) platforms still feel like drafty lecture halls instead of intimate seminar rooms. Many online instructors are similarly shifting to smaller cohort models that allow students to receive more coaching and interaction via video chat. This type of structure is not revolutionary.

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eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2025

The Flex blended-learning model, which pairs AI-powered apps with group discussions, real-world projects, individual coaching from guides, and other student experiences, attracts teachers who see its value and want its benefits.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

To that last question, Sean Arnold, a STEM coach and special educator for the New York City Department of Education, has a suggestion. So it’s not always a lecture. How are schools adjusting? What resources are they turning to? And what’s most important to focus on?

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