This document provides information on best practices for blended learning. It defines blended learning as a formal education program where students learn partly online and partly in a brick-and-mortar location, with connected online and in-person learning experiences. It discusses three models of blended learning classrooms: station rotations, flipped learning, and 1-to-1 technology environments. Key recommendations for effective blended learning include using an online learning platform, ensuring strong connections between online and offline work, empowering students with voice and choice, teaching clear procedures, and prioritizing skills like critical thinking over content coverage.

1. Best Practices of
Blended Learning

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4. BLENDED LEARNING
is like STRAWBERRIES
and ICE CREAM

8. Blended learning
is a formal education program in which a student learns:
(1)at least in part through online learning, with some element
of student control over time, place, path, and/or pace;
(2)at least in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar location
away from home;
(3)and the modalities along each student’s learning path
within a course or subject are connected to provide an
integrated learning experience.
- See more at: http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-model-
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9. Blended Learning Continuum

10. FLIPPEDSTATIONS 1:1
3 Flavors
of Blended Classrooms

11. STATION ROTATIONS
Task:
Using the visual, your
own knowledge, and
online resources,
discuss the following:
-Have you seen this
model in action?
-In what grade
levels/content areas
would this model
work best?
-What would be the
benefits/barriers?
http://www.christenseninstitute.org/blended-learning-universe/

12. 1 to 1 Classroom
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Task:
Using the visual, your own
knowledge, and online
resources, discuss the
following:
-What opportunities for
blending are available in a
1:1 classroom that might
not otherwise be possible?
-Have you seen a 1:1
Blended classroom? How
does it work?
-How would you see 1:1
blended working
differently in secondary
than in elementary?

13. FLIPPED LEARNING
Task:
Using the visual, your
own knowledge, and
online resources,
discuss the following:
-Have you seen the
flipped model in
action?
-In what grade
levels/content areas
would this model
work best?
-What would be the
benefits/barriers?

14. Ingredients for
Blue-Ribbon Blending

15. USE A LEARNING
PLATFORM.
1.

16. STRONG
CONNECTION
BETWEEN
ONLINE and OFFLINE
WORK
2.

17. If you share it
in the face-to-face classroom,
share it in the online
classroom.
Take pictures or use the TinyScan
app to convert analog papers to
digital.
Have students take turns posting a
picture of the whiteboard everyday.

18. Have students turn in work
using the online platform -
even paper and pencil work!
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19. Use the online platform for
discussions and reflections.
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20. Be Present
in the
Online Classroom
http://www.americanintifada.com/photos11/0
5-10-04.htm

21. Blended learning is
NOT taking students to the lab
once a week to do a tutorial
program or game.

22. EMPOWER
STUDENTS
WITH
VOICE & CHOICE
3.

24. TEACH & PRACTICE
THE PROCEDURES!
5.

25. Procedures for Station
Rotation
Resources
Aspire Learning
Complete unit of lesson plans for preparing kids for Stations Page 20 – 68
Scholastic
How to Set Up Digital Workstations
Polk PowerPoint
Rotations in the Secondary Classroom
https://www.polk-
fl.net/staff/teachers/reading/documents/Read180Day2/Tuesday2/Differen
ti_Spooner/Differenti_Spooner%20[Compatibility%20Mode].pdf

26. Procedures for Flipping
Introducing the Flipped Classroom the First Days of School
http://www.sophia.org/school-of-thought/introducing-the-flipped-
classroom-in-the-first-day
Letters and procedures for Introducing the Flipped Class to Students and
Parents
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoNSkh2FgPbXdGlsZ0ZOR
kRBbEdvWXM4cE1XeE1jdFE#gid=0

27. Procedures for 1:1
One to One Computing and Classroom Management
http://www.techlearning.com/from-the-classroom/0015/one-to-one-
computing-and-classroom-management/44472
Essential rules for effectively using iPads in middle school classrooms
http://isource.com/2013/03/12/essential-rules-for-effectively-using-
ipads-in-middle-school-classrooms/

28. Online Discussions
How to Write a Quality Comment
Online Discussion Guidelines from Catlin

29. REPRIORITIZE TIME.
6.

30. • Creativity &
Innovation
• Critical Thinking &
Problem Solving
• Communication &
Collaboration

31. EVERY CHILD
EVERY DAY