Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 7, 2020

I am writing this post for teachers who may not have experience with blended learning models but need support designing lessons for the concurrent classroom. Begin class with a review activity, writing prompt, feedback form, quick quiz, or formative assessment. The lesson template below has five sections. Welcome Task or Bell Ringer.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 23, 2024

Students are grouped based on their skill or ability levels and rotate through all the stations. Teacher 1: Provides targeted instruction tailored to each group’s needs, abilities, and skill levels. Teacher 2: Delivers the same instructional content or activity to all groups, regardless of their skill levels.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

How can we create a learning environment where each student feels confident applying the knowledge and skills they’re acquiring? These activities can also be used to encourage collaboration and communication as students work with peers, which can result in the development of interpersonal skills.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Over the years, writing instruction focus has swung between the final product outcome and the processes that gets us there. Digital tools have reignited this tension towards product, but now its time to help students learn how to compose, not just write. Thats where the magic happens–in the process.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom. This variation in student capabilities underscores the importance of letting these insights guide lesson design. 5 minutes).

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Writing Assignments: Writing tasks, whether creative stories, essays, or research papers, require students to think critically, organize their thoughts, write a draft, and revise based on feedback. Each student progresses differently based on prior knowledge, learning preferences, and exposure to the language.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

The same class may have students who don’t have the necessary prior knowledge or language skills to understand the information presented. The teacher may use academic or subject-specific vocabulary unfamiliar to a student with limited background knowledge or who is not a native English speaker.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

What: Teaching techniques designed to meet the needs of a diverse group of learners with varied needs, skills, abilities, and language proficiencies. Differentiating the content, or how students access knowledge, understanding, and skills. For example, some students may want to write while others will prefer to record a video.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JANUARY 28, 2022

Early simulations like Reader Rabbit are still used in classrooms to drill reading and math skills. It’ll start with a plot of land and students will write the story, cast the characters, create the entire 1776 world. Game playing develops reading skills. On the surface, it’s not so surprising. Again, think Legos.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Students come into our classrooms with different life experiences, prior knowledge, and language proficiencies. Beginning with an access prior knowledge activity, diagnostic, or pre-assessment can help us better understand what students know, understand, and can do before we design a sequence of lessons or a unit. MagicSchool.ai

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

In the last two blogs, I have focused on strategies teachers can use to 1) assess prior knowledge before a lesson and 2) check for understanding during a lesson. It provides an avenue for students to request additional help, instruction, practice, or support before moving on to the next batch of information or a new skill. Sketchnotes.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 24, 2020

As teachers prepare for a new school year, many are brushing up on their video production skills. Teachers can present students with an unfamiliar problem or prompt to pique their interest, ask them to generate questions about a topic, or assess their prior knowledge. Video has several benefits in a blended or online course.

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eSchool News

JULY 16, 2024

Creativity is an essential skill for all students to have. Creative projects help students connect new information to prior knowledge through critical thinking and problem solving. This builds emotional development and lifelong skills that will help them in any future career they may have. Why creativity?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 30, 2020

1 Use the StudySync Access Prior Knowledge Activities to Facilitate Online Discussions. Teachers using StudySync can use the Access Prior Knowledge Activities in the First Read Lessons to engage students in asynchronous online discussions using Google Classroom or a learning management system, like Schoology.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 24, 2021

The teacher-led station provides time for the teacher to provide differentiated instruction around concepts and skills, support students as they read or employ reading strategies, and provide focused feedback as they write. History: Station Rotation Ideas.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 24, 2015

This year I decided to overhaul my gradebook and assess students based on their mastery of particular skills, also referred to as standards-based grading. homework, classwork, projects, tests, and projects), I identified the main skills we would be focusing on developing in this class and used those to create my gradebook categories.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

More formally, “metacognition was originally referred to as the knowledge about and the regulation of one’s cognitive activities in learning processes” (Veenman, Van Hout-Wolters, & Afflerbach, 2006, p.3). For each unit, I identify specific target standards/skills that we as a class will focus on.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2023

If we wish to see continued success, we will need to use everything the science of reading has taught us and provide students with a healthy diet of explicit literacy instruction that includes foundational skills like decoding, in addition to building content knowledge and higher-order comprehension strategies.

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eSchool News

APRIL 23, 2025

DE Original Series Boosting Literacy Skills With The Writer’s Block, middle school students build grammar, literary analysis, and communication skills with relatable hosts and captivating storytelling.

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eSchool News

APRIL 9, 2025

SAN FRANCISCO NoRedInk , the comprehensive online writing platform provider used in over 60% of U.S. school districts, has partnered with the National Writing Project (NWP) , a nationwide network dedicated to improving writing instruction. Learn more at NoRedInk.com.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 2, 2020

Today’s educators are challenged with keeping students engaged in their learning to help them build the knowledge and employability skills they’ll need to be successful. Podcasting, district teachers say, helps students develop effective listening, problem solving, research, writing and speaking skills.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The global health crisis forced students out of the physical classroom and into a new virtual world for nearly two grades, and their initial homework and test scores reveal a significant decrease in knowledge transfer, social skills, and core learning habits across a variety of subjects.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 20, 2024

If you then encourage students to research topics that interest them, they’ll be even more motivated to read and write–and they may even have some fun. Helping students uncover their passions I once had a student who insisted on writing her research paper on body piercings.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 12, 2023

AVID helps students develop agency, relational capacity, and opportunity knowledge. “We Related : Most high school grads feel their skills aren’t up to par Arne Duncan: College completion–not simply access–critical to nation’s future. times the odds of socializing with peers who were more involved with academics.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Essentially, these credentials share a few attributes: They are skill-specific and emphasize industry-relevant competencies. But I think, ultimately, we're often talking about the same thing: a formal expression of a skill that can be demonstrated or knowledge that can be assessed as something that has been mastered.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 16, 2024

Feedback is critical for helping students enhance their conceptual knowledge and skills. AI can analyze unlimited amounts of student writing or data and generate rapid responses consistently, something that would be exhausting, if not impossible, for any human. First, AI can think very quickly.

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eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

In response to these new tools becoming available to the public, many teachers found themselves resisting AI, considering the ways in which it could complicate verifying academic honesty in student writing and artwork, acknowledging the inaccuracies that AI can generate, the human biases that impact the dataset AI uses, and more.

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eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2021

Technology can engage students and enhance their literacy skills. And that’s just one example of using technology to enhance writing skills, public speaking skills, and stimulating imagination while learning about a critical historical moment.”. Digital devices inhibit the development of deep reading skills.

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eSchool News

MARCH 6, 2025

Generating truly new ideas (instead of just remixing old ones) AI is great at rearranging existing knowledge, but it doesnt create truly original ideas. For example, AI can generate writing prompts by pulling patterns from past literature but cannot develop entirely new literary styles, philosophies, or scientific theories.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 30, 2023

Because ELs come from diverse linguistic backgrounds, their English language skills may vary widely. This ensures they are exposed to grade-level academic content while developing their English language skills. ELs need ample opportunities to practice speaking, listening, reading, and writing in English.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Small-scale playlists may focus on introducing students to a particular concept or skill. In contrast, large-scale playlists may walk students through the process of conducting an experiment and writing a lab report or working through a multi-step project. As teachers explore the playlist model, I encourage them to do the following.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 24, 2024

To close knowledge gaps and support every student, IXL equips Missouri educators with its award-winning PK-5 ELA curriculum, which personalizes learning and is grounded in the Science of Reading methodology. It then generates personalized action plans that help students eliminate their trouble spots, and grow their reading and writing skills.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2023

The Project Topeka rubric described students’ argumentative writing along four dimensions: Claim and Focus, Support and Evidence, Organization, and Language and Style, at four performance levels (Emerging, Developing, Proficient, Advanced). However, a majority also told us that students were confused about how to respond to the feedback.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Use closed captioning for video content to improve comprehension and literacy skills. Research shows that visualization contributes to knowledge formation for learners. It can also reveal misunderstandings or gaps in their knowledge. Encourage collaboration and peer support. Use small groups to discuss and solve problems.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

CAE), a leading provider of performance-based educational assessments measuring 21 st century skills, as well as custom assessments, today announced the appointment of Stacey Sparks to senior director of content design and development. Council for Aid to Education, Inc. Sparks holds a B.A. To learn more, please visit www.cae.org.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 24, 2019

The field of computer science is exceptionally diverse, as the skill sets are in-demand across practically every industry—serving as a lucrative and stable career pathway. This provides students with the knowledge and skills required to help follow job market trends when they graduate. Personalized learning.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 15, 2024

” Our classrooms are composed of diverse groups of students with different skills, abilities, preferences, language proficiencies, and academic needs. Differentiated Learning Needs: In a class with diverse skill levels, a teacher uses assessment data to identify critical areas where individual students need extra support.

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