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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. The Station Rotation Model is particularly popular because teachers do not need a device for every student to make it work. One concern I have about this model is the way teachers design and facilitate their teacher-led station.

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3 Reasons Teachers Should Use the Playlist Model

Catlin Tucker

I’ve trained many teachers who use choice boards and ask, “What’s the difference between a choice board and a playlist?” 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.

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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. The variety of products they create causes many teachers to question how they should assess this work since it takes many forms. We also stress the importance of providing students with flexible means.

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Zap life into your feedback with technology

eSchool News

If you’re like any other teacher or administrator I know, you are busy. You have good intentions about giving feedback that is timely and purposeful for your students or teachers. Technology presents a unique opportunity to allows students access to your feedback in effective, efficient ways, following several steps.

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Creative Writing Tips to Energize Essays

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Creative writing techniques can make essays more engaging and original while maintaining the required objective structure. However, it’s possible to use creative writing ideas to help you come up with a unique essay. However, essays are more objective, as they require facts and evidence to support your claims.

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What do teachers want to see in automated writing evaluation systems?

eSchool News

Revising in response to formative feedback is a cornerstone of effective writing instruction. Providing substantive comments on stacks of student essays, however, is highly time-consuming for busy teachers. We asked teachers this question in our research developing an AWE system called eRevise.

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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. They want to know exactly how I have managed that as a high school English teacher.

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