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Removing Barriers with UDL and Blended Learning

Catlin Tucker

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. There is often a tension created by the pressure put on teachers to cover content with the student-centered approach to learning described by UDL and blended learning.

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Pre-assessment is Key to Designing with Intention

Catlin Tucker

At a recent workshop, a teacher posed a compelling question about the effectiveness of small-group versus whole-group instruction. This inquiry always prompts me to reflect: How many educators gather pre-assessment data before crafting their lesson plans?

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Prepare For Fall: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and Blended Learning Self-paced Online Course

Catlin Tucker

Katie Novak and I wrote UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes to support teachers in developing a mindset, skill set, and toolset nimble enough to traverse any teaching and learning landscape with confidence. learner variability and flexible groupings). Module 1: Introduction to UDL.

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Designing For Deeper Learning: Identifying Challenges and Prototyping Solutions

Catlin Tucker

Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of international educators in Dubai grappling with these challenges. How do teachers ensure that instruction and facilitation of learning are accessible, inclusive, and equitable? This includes higher-order thinking, problem-solving, and reasoning.

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Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

It entails individualized education plans (IEPs), differentiated instruction, and universal design for learning (UDL) to meet diverse needs. Accessible facilities, ongoing professional development, and family involvement are vital components. She was seen accessing evidence on her iPad for individual learners based on their IEP.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

Instead, students have a repository of on-demand videos they can access any time from anywhere. Instead, they can spend more time facilitating learning and working directly with small groups of students. Screencastify allows you to insert multiple-choice questions to check for understanding and collective formative assessment.

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ISTE Certification 02

Dangerously Irrelevant

Despite my familiarity with all of the ISTE Standards, I have found that I am thinking much more deeply about the ISTE Standards for Educators as I go through this process with my cohort (which I appreciate)… One of our activities asked us to reflect on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines. They can embed audio or video.

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