Teaching Students in a Blended Learning Environment Planning Template I Teaching in a Blended Classroom Based on the instructional continuum in Session One, describe where your classroom current falls. Then identify where on the continuum you’d like your class to be once blended learning is implemented. Identify 2 or 3 advantages the addition of online activities offers your students? What new skills do you need to learn? II Models of Blended Learning Identify the blended learning model you believe offers the most potential for your classroom and describe ways this model can benefit your students. Use this space to gather websites or other resources you may want to use to enhance the content of the course you will teach. What criteria did you use to evaluate the sites you found? © 2001-2013, Education Development Center, Inc. All rights reserved. Page 1 of 3 III Engaging Students in the Blended Learning Community Describe your group project along with its learning goals. Identify the kinds of activities you plan to move to the online environment, i.e. discussion, exploration, background reading to prepare for the in-class work, etc., and explain your rationale for selecting these activities for online teaching and learning. IV Student Discussion Draft a rubric to assess students’ participation in online discussion activities. V Assessment Think about the various methods you might use to assess students in your course. Note your ideas in this space: VI Technology Skills (End of Course) Check Check off each skill that you already have or that you have learned during this course. Make a Here: note of the skills you still need to practice. Locating, evaluating and adding Internet resources to a course Creating course announcements Using assessment tools to create tests and surveys © 2001-2013, Education Development Center, Inc. All rights reserved. Page 2 of 3 Creating a discussion forum Creating groups and managing a group project online Using course gradebook Using the course chat Troubleshooting common software and hardware problems © 2001-2013, Education Development Center, Inc. All rights reserved. Page 3 of 3
