Agency - Students have control over the time, pace, and place of learning. If teachers are to help students gain more agency, they must get comfortable releasing control over some of the learning experiences, pace, and outcomes.
Collaboration - Online collaboration for blended learning can be Interactive, collaborative, and fun. Students share documents and project platforms and engage in an ongoing feedback loop.
Digital Learning - Students are engaged and invested in learning. Engage your learners within a digital space by designing flipped classrooms or rotation stations with digital content that can provide experiential learning.
Authenticity - Authenticity is a hallmark of effective blended learning. Without it, we remain in the realm of doing the same things with new tools. We have the opportunity to hit authenticity in both the personalization and relevance of our lessons.
Natural Phenomena are observable events that occur in the universe and that we can use our science knowledge to explain or predict. The goal of building knowledge in science is to develop general ideas, based on evidence, that can explain and predict phenomena.
A student centered work flow that maximizes student work and practice time, focusing on practice, growth, and reflection while minimizing the amount of time the teacher spends in the front of the classroom.
Students gain first exposure to new material (lower levels of cognitive work (gaining knowledge and comprehension)) outside of class, usually via reading or lecture videos. Then, they use class time to do the harder work of assimilating (application, analysis, synthesis, and/or evaluation) that knowledge, perhaps through problem-solving, discussion, or debates.
Good Classroom Teaching = Good Online Teaching. How do we translate what our best classroom teaching practices to online teaching practices? Although we are using new tools to teach remotely, your ideas of what makes a good lesson and your pedagogy of how to teach is a constant. This webpage provides helpful reminders, suggestions and resources to continue making high-quality lessons that closely mimic what you would normally do in your classroom.
Learn more about the important role of Rich Discussions in our classroom. Explore strategies to get kids engage and talking during you synchronous and asynchronous lessons.
Learn more about how formative assessments have become so important to our synchronous and asynchronous lessons. Explore strategies and concrete teaching ideas to use before, during, and after instruction.
Your go-to spot for in-depth learning with recorded webinars and podcasts. Explore teaching and learning tools, ideas, strategies, and pedagogy.
Explore these in-depth tutorials to learn more about new teaching tools. Don't forget to follow up with Matt Durant to continue learning together, exploring ways to integrate these tools into your teaching, and reflecting on how the lessons went.
Explore these subject based resources. Find and use rich content resources such as readings, videos, and podcasts that you can bring in to improve your students' learning.