What are the Strategies that Classroom teachers can employ in a Blended Classroom

1. REACHING ALL STUDENTS IN A
BLENDED TEACHING &
LEARNING ENVIRONMENT
GRACE MAGLEY, M. ED. INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
SUPERVISOR OF ONLINE LEARNING
NATICK PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NATICK, MA
BLENDED LEARNING SPECIALIST
ACCEPT EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE, NATICK, MA

3. BLENDED LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS ENABLE EDUCATORS …
Julie Elkan, Katina Costello and Jamie Cutone,
Holliston.
John Leighton, Franklin.
Grace Magley, Sharon Monaghan and Wendi
Cantoreggi, Millis.

4. TO HELP STUDENTS BE SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS …
Blended Classrooms in
Holliston, Franklin, Medway, Hopkinton and

5. BY DESIGNING INSTRUCTIONAL UNITS THAT ARE STUDENT
CENTERED, RELEVANT, RIGOROUS, VARIED AND ACTIVE!
TRADITIONAL
CLASSROOM
BLENDED CLASSROOM
From Teacher Focused to Student Centered

6. Virtual
Classroom
Blended
Learning
Environment
Physical
Classroom
Blended Learning helps create more effective ways for
students to learn and to master content and skills.

7. WHAT IS BLENDED LEARNING?
OUR
DEFINITIO
N
Blended Learning
is the Integration of Digital
Content, Resources and
Web 2.0 Tools into
classroom Instructional
Practice to Engage,
Enhance, Expand and
Transform Student
Outcomes.
Blended Learning in Action, presentation by
Colleen Worrell, Virtual High School and Susan
Rees Executive Director of ACCEPT Education
Collaborative given at the 2011 ASEA
Conference

8. Research-based Best Practices combined
with 21st Century Resources, Tools &
Techniques

9. UNIVERSAL DESIGN FOR LEARNING (UDL)
Image credit: http://www.cast.org/udl/
UDL is Research-based and good for all
learners

10. LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS & E-LEARNING
Virtual classroom
extends learning 24 x
7
Gives students choice
and voice outside of
school
Makes classroom time
more valuable
Ability to revise teaching
based on individual
student
understanding
Teaching and assessing
for learning combine “Personalization has and can take place without technology, but
not at scale. Technology dramatically increases a teacher's
ability to identify and manage the needs of many students, and
for students to access a large variety of
interventions, content, resources, and learning opportunities
everywhere at anytime.”
- Innovate to Educate: System [Re]Design for Personalized Learning. A
Report from the 2010 Symposium. SIIA, ASCD, and CCSSO

11. THE LMS IS THE VIRTUAL CLASSROOM!

12. OPEN EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES (OER), WEB 2.0 TOOLS
Free to use, rich and engaging digital
technologies for learning, thinking and
collaborating.

13. PRINCIPLES OF ASSESSING FOR LEARNING
•
Effective
feedback
•
Active
Involvement
•
Adjusting
teaching
•
Recognition of
Profound
influence
assessment has
on motivation
and self esteem

14. NEW PILLARS OF 21ST CENTURY LEARNING
1. Classroom teachers are among score of “teachers”
who are available to students 24x7 but they are most
important since they facilitate
connections, reflection, analysis and meaning
making from all of the outside sources.
2. Students must learn how to learn independent of
the classroom teacher
3. Knowledge is no longer defined as what we know
but also as knowing how to find it quickly via
personalized networks
Rob Mancabelli, Author of Personalized Learning
Networks: Using the Power of Connections to Transform
Education, 2011

15. CLASSROOM TEACHER: FACILITATES LEARNING
Rigor Manager
Subject Mater Expert, High
Expectations, Tutoring
Relevance Manager
Learning is Complex, Active,
Adaptive and Relevant
Relationship Manager
Creates Culture of
Collaboration and
Learning, Mentoring
The Rise of K-12 Blended Learning and
The Disruption of Blended Learning, The
Journal
July 6, 2011

16. Carol Tomlinson,2008

17. Creating Blended
Teaching &
Learning
Environments is a
PROCESS.
Invest in teachers
through quality
PD and time to
collaborate and
take risks.
Start small:
build a blended
environment
One Unit at a time.
Start with clear
learning objectives..
Be
flexible, take
risks, continu
ally adapt
learning
resources
and activities
to students in
class
Use student
assessments
, feedback
and reflection
to improve
Units

18. • Students engaged and
invested in learning
• Frees up class time for
project work
• More time to work with
students individually
and in small groups to
assess learning
• Most effective learning
environment
• Teachers report they will
never go back to
traditional methods

19. • Students Engaged
and Invested in
Learning
• Choice / Voice /
Collaboration
• 21st century skills /
literacies embedded
• Writing and Reflection
• Improved Productivity
• Self Directed

20. Classroom Time is Project-based, Studentcentered Learning in Action!

21. CONTACT ME:
GRACE MAGLEY
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