Blended Learning Vocabulary

Students are responsible for doing the thinking in the classroom. They have control over the path, place, & pace of blended learning.

• Student Agency

• Personalized Instruction

• Academic Ownership

• Self-Paced Classroom

The combination of best instructional strategies using online & offline resources to enhance student engagement, accountability, and agency. Data informs materials, lessons, and groupings. It looks like: Teacher Group, Offline Learning, and Online Learning.

• Self-Paced Classroom

• Rotation Model

• Differentiation

• Blended Learning

Students actively work with each other and with an educator in an active group learning envrionment. Blended learning collaborative classrooms utilize group learning principles, peer feedback, and technology to improve class participation and student learning.

• Differentiation

• Relationships

• Collaboration

• Blended Learning

Students are offered various learning opportunities to master standards according to differentiated learning objectives dependent on students' level of mastery, and frequently receive individual feedback about their progress.

• Academic Ownership

• Personalized Instruction

• Virtual/Remote Learning

• Personalized Learning Playlist

Students receive mentoring and coaching conversations with their teacher as they meet to track progress against goals, reflect on their own strengths, and identify areas for growth.

• Feedback Cycles

• Goal Setting

• Data Driven Instruction

• Student Agency

Teachers and Instructional leaders utilize a systematic approach to assessment and data-informed teaching to design and deliver instruction based on students' specific learning needs, monitor students learning, and provide feedback to students.

Students complete learning tasks at a speed customized to their personal levels of mastery. This means students may take longer with material they struggle with, skip topics that cover material they already know, or repeat topics as needed.

• Student Agency

• Rotation Model

• Self-Paced Classroom

• Blended Learning

Students within a single class rotate between several different learning activities.

Students set academic and non-academic goals with their teacher to review progress against those goals.

Refers to the level of control, autonomy, and power that a student experiences in an educational situation. It can be manifested through goal setting and feedback cycles, input in assessment and instruction decisions, and opportunities for advocacy.

• Academic Ownership

• Advocacy

• Rigor

• Student Agency