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eSchool News
MAY 22, 2025
10 course credits) to elementary mathematics: 105 hours on mathematics content and 45 hours on how to teach math (i.e., Findings for undergraduate prep programs: The average undergraduate program dedicates 85 hours of instructional time to foundational math content knowledge–20 instructional hours short of the recommended minimum.
eSchool News
MAY 20, 2025
But we often ignore one fundamental truth: Learning takes time, and the time needed is different for every student. Ask any teacher, and they will tell you that the pace of learning is not universal. And yet, our education system insists on treating time as the fixed variable in the equation of learning–even when we know better.
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Catlin Tucker
MAY 3, 2021
So, how do we design and facilitate learning experiences to remove barriers and allow all students to succeed? How can we leverage technology to provide meaningful choices within a learning experience and create the time and space needed to work with individual students or small groups of learners? Second, technology is here to stay.
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 14, 2020
In my last blog, I focused on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principle of engagement. I highlighted how blended learning can help educators more effectively provide multiple means of engagement to increase student motivation and ensure all students can successfully engage with learning experiences. Comprehension.
eSchool News
MAY 2, 2025
If you teach a man to fish, he will be richer forever. If we pair students strengths and aptitudes with in-demand careers through personalized learning, we are ensuring the success of our students and tomorrows workforce, thus realigning motivation and fulfilling the individuals Hierarchy of Needs. It could be applied here, too.
Catlin Tucker
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement. Self-Regulation.
Catlin Tucker
MAY 11, 2021
Like many, this teacher felt intense pressure to teach the standards and wasn’t sure how to embrace Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and blended learning. In other words, can students transfer that new learning to a novel situation? This is not unusual.
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