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Supporting Teachers in Blended Learning
Environments Pat Errico, Asbury Park Instructional Technology Specialist
Heather Hay, Imagine Learning NJ APM
1. Defining blended
learning
2. Creating the foundation
3. Differentiating PD
4. Integrating the data
Today’s Topics
- Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, Blended Learning Model Definitions
Benefits of Blended Learning
Greater student access to high quality content
Embedded 21st century skills
Access to real-time student data
Access to flexible groupings and more opportunities for individualized instruction
Increased equity through instructional scaffolding
High levels of student engagement
Restructuring of face-to-face time for higher order thinking
Additional opportunities for teacher collaboration
Personalized learning for all students
Increase teacher efficacy
Increased student confidence
- National Center on Time & Learning, Supporting Student Success through Time and Technology
“…efforts are in vain if they are aimed at providing an even better way for students to do something that they were never trying to do in the first place.” -Michael B. Horn and Heather Staker Blended: Using Disruptive Innovation to Improve Schools
Creating a Strong Foundation
“Very few people or companies can clearly articulate WHY they do WHAT they do. By WHY I mean your purpose, cause or belief - WHY does your company exist? WHY do you get out of bed every morning? And WHY should anyone care?” -Simon Sinek, Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
• Why does your district/ school/ classroom exist?
• Ideally, what would you like to
offer that isn’t offered now? • Why is blended learning a good
solution for your school?
Given the competing demands on teachers, effective implementation requires that teachers understand how leveraging technology will support their current efforts and better the needs of their students. -National Center on Time & Learning, Supporting Student Success through Time and Technology (p 49)
Mindset and Pedagogical Shifts • Whole-group to small-group • Teacher ownership to student ownership of learning • Equal instruction in basics vs. increase in higher order thinking • Consistently adapting teaching practice based on data
- Education Elements and iNACOL, Understanding and Supporting Blended Learning Teaching Practices (pp 7,8)
- Supporting Student Success through Time and Technology, National Center on Time & Learning
Aides
Parents
Technology Department
Teacher Leaders/ Tech
Advocates
School Administrators
Planning for Thoughtful Training
and Professional Development
Self-Assessment for Professional Development
Topics Resulting from Rubric-Based Reflection
Project-based learning
Creating/ changing flexible groups
Skill-strand strategies
Classroom management for small groups
Building purposeful, quality stations
Sharing blended learning with parents
Guiding student goal setting
Empowering students with technology skills/ knowledge
RtI
Developing quality HOT questions and conversations
Encouraging student reflection
Integrating the Data
“…Teachers are more likely to think about differentiating instruction when provided with individual student-level data broken down by concept.” -US Dept. of Education, Teachers’ Ability to Use Data to Inform Instruction: Challenges and Supports, 2011.
Possibilities for Planning
• Professional Learning Communities (PLCs)
• Ongoing coaching (master teachers and instructional specialists)
• Ongoing training sessions (after school, lunch and learn, early dismissal)
• Common planning data deconstruction
Proactively Supporting Progress • Measurement Tools
• Specific walk-through & observation criteria • Adapted lesson plan evaluation criteria
Kerr and colleagues (2006) found that district leaders communicate sincerity about the constructive intent of walk-throughs in several ways. One way is to focus walk-throughs on areas where teachers and site leaders have ample professional development opportunities and support to implement changes. … Leaders can also communicate good intentions by using high-quality data-collection instruments and training walk-through observers in their use.” - Jane L. David, What Research Says About…/ Classroom Walk-Throughs
Proactively Supporting Progress
• Master classroom observations
• Voluntary coaching
• Professional collaboration
• Ongoing coaching (master teachers and instructional specialists) with increased observation
• Feedback opportunities
Collecting Feedback
What Support Looks Like
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