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Each TVDSB secondary course will have an integrated virtual component to drive the student learning experience in Conventional, Adaptive, and/or Full Remote Learning.
"Blended learning combines the support of classroom learning with the flexibility of e-learning."
Why Blended Learning?
Why Blended Learning?
A digital classroom allows educators to provide personalized learning experiences.
Supporting students and families with digital learning provides us with an opportunity to uphold our strategic priorities; namely, fostering a culture of high learning expectations, maintaining positive classroom climates, championing equity and inclusion, and providing students with engaging learning experiences.
It is important for students to have both interactive learning opportunities, as well as assignments and content that are posted for independent learning in a digital classroom.
Advantages:
Advantages:
Teachers and learners are not limited to one medium or delivery channel to meet overall expectations.
It promotes a continuous learning approach which is more effective at creating change and deep learning.
It provides more opportunities for social learning, collaboration, increased participation and informal strategies.
Using both synchronous and asynchronous approaches can provide more opportunities for learners to cultivate skills and apply them.
Blended Learning will benefit students with diverse learning needs because of its ability to allow students to have more control over the learning pace through varied modalities/ medium of delivery. Learn more here: The Role of Special Education and Student Success in a Blended Learning Model
Preliminary Planning
Preliminary Planning
1. Keep it Simple
Keep the @home learning approaches simplistic at the onset in order to support learning objectives and to ensure expectations are accessible to a wider audience of diverse learners. This will build confidence.
2. Design to meet learning outcomes.
Choose approaches that will fulfill student-centred learning outcomes. Let the appropriateness of meeting the performance objectives take precedence in the design.
3. Design to establish learning connectors.
A blended approach needs a new perspective. Simply adding online activities to a traditional course will increase the workload for students. Creating a blended course should be viewed as a complete redesign where the time and place of each component is carefully selected. Align in-class and @home organizational goals by connecting learning to reinforce and augment one another.
4. Enable Collaborative Learning
Providing opportunities to collaborate both in class and within the online learning environment is a powerful way to provide effective social interaction and to enhance learning.
Prioritize Overall Expectations
Prioritize Overall Expectations
Triage the Learning: What is essential vs. non-essential?
Focus on Overall Expectations as per curriculum documents. Specific Expectations should be used to guide course planning.
Understanding by Design
Understanding by Design
Understanding by Design, or UbD, is an educational planning approach. UbD is an example of backward design, the practice of looking at the outcomes in order to design curriculum units, performance assessments, and classroom instruction. UbD focuses on teaching to achieve understanding. Framework PDF
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