Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In a coaching session last week, it became clear that teachers could use basic templates to help them conceptualize how to take strategies they have used in the past to create lessons that will work in a concurrent classroom (or in an online learning scenario). The lesson template below has five sections. Welcome Task or Bell Ringer.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 2, 2016

Then groups worked together to write a project proposal explaining how they were going to execute this project. It required them to think through the purpose, strategy, and process before beginning their work.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 18, 2015

I initially presented them with a list of 9 Common Core reading and writing standards that I wanted them to demonstrate mastery of over the course of the unit. They brainstormed ideas and groups worked at their own pace to complete their various performance tasks.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills. Some ideas of what PBL might look like in a first grade classroom include: A group of strong readers begin reading nonfiction books about a topic of their choosing and write their own story about the topic.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

A neurodivergent student who struggles with any of these might tune out or do the complete opposite and engage in a way that creates stress within the group. This is exacerbated online, so I use a private chat tool in classroom.cloud to support my students in group work. I push them to speak up.

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Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. How Does This Apply to Group Work?

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eSchool News

MARCH 4, 2019

Students would have to be in a workshop atmosphere working on reading, writing, projects, or collaborative group work—not a sit-and-get classroom. If a teacher had only 1,000 words to spend, then that means the students’ task would have to be engaging, extended, and meaningful.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 6, 2023

The most effective technology works with you to enable or extend the instruction you’re providing. In small-group work, for example, students can do so many things with technology, such as reading aloud, practicing decoding, doing a word sort, or practicing dictation. Related : The phonics fix?

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Faculty Focus

JULY 11, 2024

When I look at the various articles and comments in the Teaching Professor collection, group work continues to be a regular topic. From a well-designed and well-implemented group activity, students can have rich encounters with the content and learn the value of working collaboratively. How Does This Apply to Group Work?

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Group work Instructors Students Research Methods 59

eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

The pedagogical approach to brings learning to life for students through hands-on engagement that lends itself to both differentiation and personalization, writes Kendall Stallings, a first grade teacher in Baltimore County. Projects can be individually completed or a collaborative effort, promoting group work and social skills.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The nation must act with urgency and purpose to ensure all students have access to high quality online learning opportunities,” they write. Approximately 9 million low-income students lack both the hardware and the internet connectivity to enable virtual learning, which “represents a national emergency,” the authors of the report write.

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Learning Internet Writing Failure 218

Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2024

It’s a fair question given the widespread concern in the field about students using AI to write their essays or bots to do their homework for them. Watkins is a lecturer of writing and rhetoric at the University of Mississippi and director of the university’s AI Summer Institute for Teachers of Writing, an optional program for faculty. “We

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2025

Many math tasks involve reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Write the terms on a whiteboard. Reinforce the terms by asking students to draw pictures of them in their notebooks or use them in conversations during group work. Its about language, too. Post the terms on math walls. for years to come. My answer is.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 31, 2023

I got a small whiteboard and filled a cardboard box with dry-erase markers and extra writing utensils. This gave way to more movement, flexible group work, and games. If we can provide 1:1 tablets, surely we can do 1:1 clipboards plus a class wagon, or “go-bin,” with writing utensils, foam sit spots, and a portable whiteboard.

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Ethics Writing History English 269

eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Group work, projects, and activities allow students to interact with and learn from each other. Use small groups to discuss and solve problems. Having MLs create their own visual explanations , rather than relying solely on verbal and written explanations, can help them learn complex concepts and systems.

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STEM English Language Languages 325

Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. They communicate what students should know and be able to do in math, music, writing, and so on. Come back for more.

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Group work Assignments Questions Communication 52

eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2023

About EdTech Digest and the EdTech Awards EdTech Digest, a leading source of cool tools, interviews, and trends showcasing the future of learning — annually honors the best and brightest people, products and groups working in EdTech with The EdTech Awards.

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Learning Reading Elementary School Elementary School 286

Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

This model is similar to the center rotations that already occur in many elementary classrooms, in which students rotate through stations in small groups, working both independently and with the teacher. However, encouraging students to take ownership for their group members is difficult. Each time a group was prepared (e.g.,

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Metacognitive Skills Learning Assignments Group work 166

eSchool News

AUGUST 26, 2015

Students don’t need places to sit, listen and write. A space that enables easy movement between individual and group work allows machines to be built, inventions to be launched, games to be programmed, or prototypes to be created. It’s not reflective.We We evolve behind desks. Think of that! They need places of support.

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Learning Spaces Learning Game-Based Learning Teaching Methods 279

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Our class management tools foster online collaboration, group work and feedback. The number of students engaged in writing in Google Drive increased significantly, as did the depth of their engagement in writing. . who is being left behind. how to make better professional development and purchasing decisions.

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Student Engagement English Assignments Feedback 161

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

King ended up writing her doctoral paper on the challenges faced by first-generation graduate students in professional psychology, which argues that universities should do more to recognize and support these students. It leaves a lot of students doing a trial-and-error approach, and sometimes these errors are really expensive,” she says.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2017

While my class is frequently engaged in small group work, it is important to remember that personalizing learning is not as simple as creating differentiated groups and having them complete the same task. Rather it’s about giving each group a unique task, designed especially for their skill-level and need.

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Learning Math Writing Art 167

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Both Tonja and I worked with separate groups of students. Her group focused on changing improper fractions to mixed numbers and my group worked on adding and subtracting mixed numbers. To make this work for remote students, we had them join our class via Zoom.

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Teaching Teachers Students Math 216

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

At that critical moment when a teacher chalks a problem on the board and asks everyone to write out an answer, for instance, one kid might stall by sharpening a pencil, another might doodle or feign writing, and another might stare into space — though not thinking about the problem at hand. Well, for one, the workspace.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

AUGUST 26, 2024

It’s one of the reasons why some teachers advancing their studies choose to use dissertation writing services. Further, you can group similar tasks to promote efficiency and reduce the stress of switching between different activities. These services help them free up time for personal engagements while ensuring they graduate.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 24, 2018

The center’s first floor will provide flexible learning spaces, including a Skype room for video conferencing with outside experts, a quiet zone for research and a talking zone with soft furniture for group work and discussions. But it’s also a space where they can write a book,” she says.

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STEM Education Learning Spaces Culture 163

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Instead of assigning students the same structured projects (such as the age-old puzzles that move a robot through a maze), empower students to write code for something they really care about. Collaboration and group work is fundamental. But as students work on more advanced projects, the tasks can quickly get difficult.

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Science Art Social Studies Language 168

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

We crawl before we walk, just like we memorize sight words before we write prose. This is an important skill that students demonstrate whether they’re applying Pythagorean’s theorem when presented with a novel problem or writing alternative endings to a favorite fairy tale.

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Teachers Feedback Knowledge Beliefs 167

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2017

I thought it was a great room setup, especially because it facilitates group learning,” one student wrote in the survey “It was also nice being able to write group work on whiteboards close to you. I would put classes in there that are made up of groups.” It’s still all about the people.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2018

Guidebooks to structure group work. A tattoo writing exercise. These active learning strategies can work in any course—for any major, in any discipline. YouTube videos for extra credit. Vocab riddles.

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Active Learning Activities Teaching Multidisciplinary 163

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The group “quiz” can be conducted in the classroom or synchronously online utilizing Zoom break-out rooms: the students can speak to one another while taking the quiz, but each student must individually key in their answers. Edmodo Assignments, too, can be used for in-person and online group work. What did you learn?

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Distance Learning Culture Gamification Learning 218

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 30, 2024

The collaboration consists of exploring future course content through think/pair/share exercises (sometimes writing a response on a small white board and holding it up) or responding to mini-research prompts. This is done to provide exposure of what we will be learning in the semester and to bridge connections from previously learned content.

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Syllabus Lecturing Discussions Science 124

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

that of 'Grades,'” Earick writes in an upcoming report on the project. Those barriers include “(1) student assessments that don't accurately reflect students’ true understandings and skills and (2) methods for grouping students (by age) that often poorly align to their true needs as learners.”.

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Grades Elementary School Elementary School Participation 164

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Pair that with the choice of how to represent character traits with drawings, writing or pictures, and youve got a winning lesson! I just worked with some third graders, and they had to explain why a characters traits in the book that we read helped them sell more lemonade than the brother sold. Its beautiful!

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Student Engagement Culture Technology Students 107

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2024

During a recent round of conversations, one told Jones that she loves group-study rooms — not for group work, but because they allow her to create a study atmosphere that works for her: dark, music streaming, a fireplace video on the wall monitor. They published their findings in a report in Trendline in December 2023.

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Study Disabilities Accessibility Group work 218

Gaggle Speaks

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Pair collaboration with group work or team projects. While this might seem like a difficult task, particularly for disciplines that require extensive writing like English or reading, consider allowing students to blog. Drop the pen and paper.

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Technology Students English Internet 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2023

I could see the writing on the wall. So I persuaded him to leave his post and join us as chief scientist in this little team that we put together, and we have a group working on wellness and well-being led by clinical psychologist Tanya Gamby. They dragged us into online, thank God, in 1995.

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Intelligence Online Learning Group work Knowledge 186