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10 Awesome Courses To Improve Your Online Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

I’ve also included the links to Advancement Courses’ professional development courses that relate to this topic. This course is sponsored by Advancement Courses. Remember that if you register for any of these courses, use the code COOL20 to get the 20% discount reserved for my readers! All opinions are my own.

Course 337
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Teacher Tips: Starting the Year with Station Rotation

Catlin Tucker

In an effort to reimagine the first weeks of school, I decided to use the station rotation model to encourage my new students to interact with one another and learn about our class. I was able to breathe and enjoy the relaxing, student-centered atmosphere I had created. Courses on Sale for Back-to-School!

UDL 521
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Blended Learning: Designing with Balance in Mind

Catlin Tucker

That means they need to be able to flex their metacognitive muscles by setting goals, tracking and monitoring their progress, reflecting on their learning, and assessing their own work. As Katie Novak and I write in UDL and Blended Learning: Thriving in Flexible Learning Landscapes (coming out May 29!),

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21 Top Professional Development Topics For Teachers Now

The CoolCatTeacher

They fit into the categories of SEL, digital instruction, engagement/management, and leadership. Advancement Courses Advancement Courses sponsored this blog post. If you enroll in any of the courses mentioned in this post, use the code COOL20 to receive 20% off of your course. Search Courses Now.

Course 486
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Blended Learning: Design a Mini-playlist that Allows Students to Control the Pace of Their Learning

Catlin Tucker

Through the use of digital tools and blended learning techniques, she has created a student-centered environment in which her students engage and thrive in active learning online and offline. She is eager to collaborate with other professionals to continue on a path of growth and improvement.

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Coronavirus Has Led to a Rush of Online Teaching. Here’s Some Advice for Newly Remote Instructors

Edsurge

Use Polls to Keep Students Engaged There are many tools available to pose multiple-choice questions to students remotely. Or professors can just ask students to respond to a prompt in the text chat included in most video conference platforms. I love what many of the universal design for learning people say.

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Universal Design for Learning and Blended Learning: Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that is based on a scientific understanding of how people learn. The goal of UDL is to design “barrier-free, instructionally rich learning environments and lessons that provide access to all students” (Nelson, 2). Engagement.