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Blended Learning Lessons & Ideas from Experienced Teachers | BetterLesson

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Bring Blended Learning ideas and lessons to your classroom, including math, science, and English, with our blended models, videos and blended learning resources.

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Tanesha shows how important it is to talk to students about their writing to help them strengthen it.

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Positioning is a strategy I use, especially at the beginning of the school year, to ensure that my students know where they should go, what they will do at each station, and how much time they will spend at each station. Positioning occurs after I welcome the class (please see the "Opening Bell" strategy video) and before they begin rotating. I typically project the group assignment page from our class website onto the smart board and do a few quick checks for understanding before I let students go to their stations.

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Individual Writing Guidance | Blended Video | BetterLesson

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Positioning is a strategy I use, especially at the beginning of the school year, to ensure that my students know where they should go, what they will do at each station, and how much time they will spend at each station.

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To bring the content to a higher DOK level, the teacher utilized this digital tool to have the students create a math word problem when given a computational problem. This tool provides the artwork so the students wrote the problem based on the artwork they chose. 

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To bring the content to a higher DOK level, the teacher utilized this digital tool to have the students create a math word problem when given a computational problem. This tool provides the artwork so the students wrote the problem based on the artwork they chose. 

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Storybird - Read, write, discover, and share the books you'll always remember.

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Become a better writer with Storybird's creativity tools. Online courses, challenges, and reader feedback will help you improve your writing.

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I watched a video on assessment and it made me really think about how many teachers are not using authentic assessment OR in contrast, they wonder why students struggle when they do provide authentic/real world assessment. If we are not providing students authentic/real world experiences and walking them through real world experiences during the "learning process", then it's no wonder they are unable to perform well on those authentic assessments.

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I watched several videos where the teachers talked about friendly competition. They have competitions for things such as multiplication facts. One activity has students taking turns saying multiplication facts. I love the idea of friendly competition because it's motivating for me as well. 

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I watched several videos where the teachers talked about friendly competition. They have competitions for things such as multiplication facts. One activity has students taking turns saying multiplication facts. I love the idea of friendly competition because it's motivating for me as well. 

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Academic Culture

Fluency is important, and finding the time to practice it in class can be tough. Fortunately, my students and I came up with Face Off, a simple, gamefied way to practice multiples and other fluency. 3 students must participate, where two students meet eyes and count off multiples until one makes a mistake. The third person moderates with an answer sheet. This can be modified to practice multiplication facts, division, or fraction operations. I create official FaceOff times where we actually play a "season" and work through a tournament style competition, with students advancing as they defeat their peers. This investment is great, but the fact that it runs itself is even better for me! Students often can be seen Face-ing Off in line in the Cafeteria, on the way to Specials, or in the neighborhood.

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Academic Culture Fluency is important, and finding the time to practice it in class can be tough. Fortunately, my students and I came up with Face Off, a simple, gamefied way to practice multiples and other fluency. 3 students must participate, where two students meet eyes and count off multiples until one makes a mistake.

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Setting up students to self-reflect on their persistence in independent group work.  How did you persist through the lesson and how did your group do.

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Seeing it in action in a kindergarten classroom helps me realize it is possible. Now to design it all...

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Seeing it in action in a kindergarten classroom helps me realize it is possible. Now to design it all...

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Blended learning teachers deliberately design all elements of their students’ experience to meet desired learning outcomes

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Students fill in a graph to show how many times they speak during different lessons to track speaking and engagement/

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Academic Culture

This is an excel document that is projected during shared inquiry. Each time that a student shares a comment, question, or any other type of substantial response in the group's conversation, a cell is filled to create a bar graph that is easily identifiable by students. It informs them and myself about the participation levels and motivates students to give more to a conversation.

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Shared Inquiry Trackers | Blended Video | BetterLesson

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Academic Culture This is an excel document that is projected during shared inquiry. Each time that a student shares a comment, question, or any other type of substantial response in the group's conversation, a cell is filled to create a bar graph that is easily identifiable by students.

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Rethinking assessment to give choice to students in how they show what they know. Assessment is more than tests and quizzes, but may look like blog posts, websites, infographics, creating screencast videos explaining thinking. Feedback can come from more than just the teacher, but peers , experts, and collaborators in other schools.

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Amanda & Jess dove into Socratic Seminars, saw an example in a senior classroom, and researched it further keeping in mind texts that we use in our own classrooms.

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Amanda & Jess dove into Socratic Seminars, saw an example in a senior classroom, and researched it further keeping in mind texts that we use in our own classrooms.

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Looking at Blended Learning and what I have done in the classroom so far this year, what can I implement easily to assist the new teacher and make the transition smoother? There were a few ideas that were presented and we discussed additional concerns in our group related to this. I need to do some more planning and "research" before students get back next week and the teacher starts.

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I make huge connections with the enumerable ways that blended learning allows teachers time and capability to differentiate.  

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I make huge connections with the enumerable ways that blended learning allows teachers time and capability to differentiate.  

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Students engaged at all levels. Teacher/Student relationships. Students responsible for their learning. 

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Students engaged at all levels. Teacher/Student relationships. Students responsible for their learning. 

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I was able to confirm some of my own attempts at getting set up with a blended learning environment.   We've realized after almost 2 years of being online, many of our students haven't had experience with this, so consistency, routines, expectations, and beliefs will be huge.  To extend my learning making adjustments to what I have started to include more blended learning of content alongside mini-lessons, and a challenge is moving past what is comfortable.

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I was able to confirm some of my own attempts at getting set up with a blended learning environment.   We've realized after almost 2 years of being online, many of our students haven't had experience with this, so consistency, routines, expectations, and beliefs will be huge.  To extend my learning making adjustments to what I have started to include more blended learning of content alongside mini-lessons, and a challenge is moving past what is comfortable.

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Mr. Pham creates personalized learning rotations for his students daily. They rotate between learning activities based on their needs. He categorizes the lessons as Mild, Medium, and Spicy to help guide the students to choose based on their mastery levels. They know they will have an assessment at the end of the rotations to demonstrate mastery. This motivates them to choose what will best help them meet their goals.

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small group instruction - visible checklist for students - teacher check in on learning targets incorporating success criteria

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I focused on the graphic organizer video, because I feel that it is important to use graphic organizers to build the surface level knowledge that students need to master standards. The strategy used was simple and the students were engaged in their work.

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Scaffolding! I am learning how to utilize the technique of scaffolding to teach. There was a great video on scaffolding under collaborative learning videos.

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Adding a time keeper for transitions in between rotations.  Students earn Urgency All-Star Digital Badge.

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I enjoyed watching about guided reading in 1st grade, how he utilized making sure the students were all with him, how he moved them to new spaces to utilize the space that was available.  He made good use of "warm welcomings" and made his classroom very warm and inviting.

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What do you connect with?What extends your thinking?What challenges you?

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What do you connect with?What extends your thinking?What challenges you?

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I connected with Tanisha who is an 8th grade social studies teacher in Washington DC. Her resources and advice for the implementation of blended learning was very useful.

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The video I watched showed a teacher who uses a Ship on a Wall. If the students remained on task and engaged with each other, the ship moves forward. There are days that the ship stays put. On the days that the ship has to go back a spot, the students take notice and they work hard to get the ship to move forward again. The main point is that the students work with each other. Once the ship reaches its "port" the class receives a reward.
I think it's a great tool especially in the younger grades.

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The students were engaged and responsible for their learning.  Relationships were being fostered and teacher was able to meet with students one on one.

Using music at a timer for beginning work and ending assignment.

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Steven Pham a 5th grade teacher used this collaborative strategy.  He said it is simple but effective. Students roam the room finding new questions to answer together, and scan the code with an iPad to check their work. Then, they put all the answers together to unlock a secret code.  He said the use of QR codes in class has greatly improved the effectiveness of student work because of their ability to stop and check their answers. Their enthusiasm for this activity is clear, and making it into a competition of sorts makes it all the more fun.  He utilizes the QR codes in everything from directions to links to activities. His favorite use is monitoring groups during QR code breakers. https://teaching.betterlesson.com/browse/blended_video/4581/learning-

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QR Code Breakers Game | Blended Video | BetterLesson