Tag: Actively Engaging

Job List and Salary Poster

Jobs are an essential part of the economy and help this teacher run the class smoothly and efficiently. Students interview for positions and are awarded with employees if they are going above and beyond. In addition to reinforcing responsibility, jobs help students work towards character expectations and build a sense of community in the class.

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Senior Project Oral Presentation Rubric

Students are recorded giving feedback to their peers using the Oral Presentation Rubric as a guide. This allows students to better internalize the expectations of the oral presentation for themselves. The class spends a significant amount of time focused on the “Presentation Skills” and “Use of Digital Media” domains when giving peer-to-peer feedback.

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Workshop Lesson Plan

This is an example lesson plan for Workshop from the early part of the year. Note that students are selected to be in tutoring based on two different assessments.

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The Workshop Board

The Workshop Board is the student-facing display of available stations and work. Depending on how much choice students are given on a specific day, the structure of the Workshop Board changes.

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Strategic Planning and Data Use (Relay GSE Course BL-103)

In a blended/personalized classroom, data can be overwhelming. This course will give you the tools you need to focus your data analysis, so you can provide a more personalized experience for each student.

In this course, participants will:

  • Identify an instructional challenge that can be supported through blended learning.
  • Determine the focus of their data analysis, based on the needs of their school and students.
  • Apply data in an effective and strategic way to one chosen area of planning covered in the module.

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Beginners Guide to Blended Learning (Relay GSE course BL-101)

This course will teach you about blended and personalized learning as a whole, and show you how to stretch your thinking and try something new. You’ll learn the how and why of “blended” and how blended/personalized learning is changing the face of teaching and learning. You’ll leave this course with four blended “recipes” you can implement in your classroom immediately.

In this course, participants will:

  • Explain how blended learning can be used to support student achievement through differentiated instruction, personalizing curriculum, and/or engaging students in their own learning.
  • Describe key mindsets needed to be successful in a blended classroom.
  • Reflect on their practices in order to identify one instructional challenge that can be supported through blended learning.
  • Design and implement one blended lesson using one of the identified blended/personalized models.

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