This week Mrs. Butner created a Byzantine Blended Learning Activity for her students. Some of the resources she used in this activity are: Nearpod, Juno (Jupiter Assessment Module), Microsoft Forms (and Quizizz, and Flipgrid for early finishers) -- so if you have questions about any of these resources she is an excellent person to ask!!!!
Mrs. Butner's students were placed into 4 groups(stations) and the groups completed 3 activities. The pictures above display her instructions to students that she posted on her projector, the instructions she gave them for each individual station, and also some snapshots of her students engaged in her activities. Here are some takeaways Mrs. Butner had after the lesson: (1) She put the students in groups by level. By grouping students this way, she was able to do the following: (a) schedule the students that needed the most assistance to meet with her first (b) differentiate the tasks in an organized manner (c)) allow the students that did not need as much assistance to move onto enrichment activities more smoothly as a group. (2) She found that completing 3 activities in a class period was tight --- next time, she is going to play around with having 2 main activities to complete (and still have the 4 different groups) and provide enrichment activities for students to finish early. (3) Because the blended learning activity allowed Mrs. Butner to meet with students in small groups, she was able to pinpoint students who were not working up to their potential (due to feeling more comfortable to share and articulate ideas in a smaller group setting). Other items to note: (1) Mrs. Butner had previously used all the tools in this lesson during whole group activities so the students were proficient with the tools before they were asked to complete activities on their own using those tools. This is very important and will save your sanity!!!! Addtional Resources:
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Above is a snapshot from an activity Mr. Butner created for the 7th grade ELA team....
He created a "generic" quiz in Nearpod with just a few questions (i.e. 5) where he (and the other 7th grade ELA teachers) can gather formative data from their students and also use it as a review game --they don't have to keep creating it. The student's can collaborate in teams and you can have a fun competition between the teams--- to encourage use of their best thinking skills and positive collaboration. Also: (1) You can make it where students can complete the Nearpod individually and hide their names and just show results --- you can also hide group names and only show results too. (2) You can show them the results of the previous class period(s) as a whole group and the class periods can compete to get the highest score. |
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