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Balance With Blended Learning
Partner With Your Students to Reimagine Learning and Reclaim Your Life
- Catlin R. Tucker - Windsor Unified School District
Series:
Corwin Teaching Essentials
Corwin Teaching Essentials
Other Titles in:
Classroom Applications of Technology | Student Assessment | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
Classroom Applications of Technology | Student Assessment | Teaching Methods & Learning Styles
February 2020 | 192 pages | Corwin
Rethink the roles, responsibilities, and workflow in your blended learning classroom and enjoy balance in your life.
Blended learning offers educators the opportunity to reimagine teaching and learning. It allows teachers to partner with their students to assess, track, and reflect on learning. This partnership gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students the opportunity to be active agents driving their own growth.
If one thing is certain after the 2019-2020 school year, blended learning is here to stay. Learning must be a shared endeavor between the teacher and the learner. This book provides teachers with strategies to rethink traditional workflows to make teaching practices sustainable.
Written by blended learning expert, Catlin Tucker, this resource provides teachers with concrete strategies and resources they can use to partner with their students to actively engage them in setting goals, monitoring their development, reflecting on their growth, using feedback to improve work, assessing the quality of their work, and communicating their progress with parents.
Balance With Blended Learning includes
Practical strategies for teachers overwhelmed by their workloads
Routines and protocols designed to move feedback and assessment into the classroom to eliminate much of the work teachers take home
Ready-to-use templates and resources designed to help students take an active role in tracking, monitoring, and reflecting on their progress
Vignettes written by teachers across disciplines
Stories from the author's extensive experience both as a teacher and blended -learning coach
Redefining roles in a blended learning classroom encourages students to take ownership over their learning journeys and helps teachers feel more effective, efficient, and energized.
Blended learning offers educators the opportunity to reimagine teaching and learning. It allows teachers to partner with their students to assess, track, and reflect on learning. This partnership gives teachers more time and energy to innovate and personalize learning while providing students the opportunity to be active agents driving their own growth.
If one thing is certain after the 2019-2020 school year, blended learning is here to stay. Learning must be a shared endeavor between the teacher and the learner. This book provides teachers with strategies to rethink traditional workflows to make teaching practices sustainable.
Written by blended learning expert, Catlin Tucker, this resource provides teachers with concrete strategies and resources they can use to partner with their students to actively engage them in setting goals, monitoring their development, reflecting on their growth, using feedback to improve work, assessing the quality of their work, and communicating their progress with parents.
Balance With Blended Learning includes
Redefining roles in a blended learning classroom encourages students to take ownership over their learning journeys and helps teachers feel more effective, efficient, and energized.
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Problem With Traditional Grading Practices
Chapter 2: Embracing a Partnership Model With Blended Learning
Chapter 3: Who Is Doing the Work in Your Classroom?
Chapter 4: Encouraging Metacognition in Your Classroom
Chapter 5: Flip Learning With Videos
Chapter 6: Goal Setting
Chapter 7: Real-Time Feedback Using the Station Rotation Model
Chapter 8: Rubrics for Learning
Chapter 9: Side-by-Side Assessments
Chapter 10: Students Communicate Directly With Parents About Their Progress
Chapter 11: Grade Interviews
References
Index
Free resources
Ongoing Self Assessment
This template from Balance with Blended Learning by Catlin R. Tucker will help you direct ongoing self-assessment.
Student-Led Conference Form
This template from Balance with Blended Learning by Catlin R. Tucker gives students a form to look at goals and assess growth over time.
SMART Goal Setting
This template from Balance With Blended Learning by Catlin Tucker for SMART Goal Setting, will help you set goals for grading that are specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timely.
The Balance Podcast
In this episode of The Balance, Catlin Tucker, author of Balance With Blended Learning, talks with Tiffany Wycoff, and the issues related to the balance or, more accurately, the imbalance of power and responsibility in classrooms, the current role many students occupy as passive consumers, the need to model a growth mindset for our students, and more.