Blended learning teachers will share what a "normal day" looks like in their classrooms. These teachers have all taught in a blended classroom and will specifically focus on how they use student data on a daily basis to personalize learning for students, the variety of technologies they use to provide students multiple ways to access the content, and the way their classrooms are arranged to better facilitate a student-centered classroom. Join this webinar to learn what a blended learning classroom really looks like. Speakers: Alex Paraskevaides, Lead Blended Learning and Science Teacher, 7th Grade, Mott Hall V, New York City Haley Hart, PASE Prep Academy Science Teacher, Southeastern High School, Educational Achievement Authority, Detroit

1. A Day in the Life of a
Blended Learning Teacher
Alex Paraskevaides, Lead Blended Learning and Science Teacher, 7th
Grade, Mott Hall V, New York City
Haley Hart, PASE Prep Academy Science Teacher, Southeastern High
School, Educational Achievement Authority, Detroit
November 2013

2. Webinar Format
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Overview
Introductions
Presentation
Type questions in the chat window

3. Blended Learning
• “a formal education program in which a
student learns at least in part through online
delivery of content and instruction with some
element of student control over time, place,
path, and/or pace and at least in part at a
supervised brick-and-mortar location away
from home…”
- (Horn and Staker, 2013)

4. Tech-rich = blended

5. Teaching and Learning
• What the student is
doing and where the
student is.
 What
the teacher is
doing and where the
teacher is.
 What
and where the
content is.

6. Generally Defining Terms
• Traditional = the way it has always been
done
– (e.g. teacher lecture, quarterly benchmark
testing, if students don’t get it, the teacher
moves on, limited use of technology)
• Blended = use of technology, course
management system and data to
personalize learning for students

7. Webinar Focus
• How a Blended Learning Teacher
– Personalizes teaching for students (e.g. room
arrangement, teacher interaction, communication with
students)
– Uses data on a daily / weekly basis to personalize
learning for students
– Uses a variety of technologies to help students access
course content
– Interacts with students (e.g. grouping, via course
management system, email, in person, etc.)

8. Today’s Presenters
• Alex Paraskevaides (Mr. P)
Lead Blended Learning and Science
Teacher, 8th Grade, Mott Hall V, New
York City
• Haley Hart
PASE Prep Academy Science Teacher,
Southeastern High School, Educational
Achievement Authority, Detroit, Michigan

9. Blended Learning
Classroom
Alex Paraskevaides (Mr. P)
7th Grade Science Educator
Mott Hall V
Bronx, NY

11. Mott Hall V, Bronx, NY
Grades 6-12

12. Mott Hall V
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Student make up (95% hispanic/black)
Title 1 school
Middle School and High School
Around 100 students per grade
Close to 90% free lunch
All students in Middle School Science
enrolled in Blended Learning
All Middle School Science doing some
version of blended
Middle School Social Studies
incorporating aspects of blended into
classroom

13. What caused me to become a
blended learning teacher?

14. Not how
students learn

15. Ultimately, there are two main goals for using
Blended Learning.
1.Create an environment that will allow the teacher
access to what each student is thinking. Face-to face
and online interactions enhance this.
1.Create thinkers inside and outside the classroom.
This can happen when you provide students with
challenging and meaningful activities, that allows them
to explore their own strengths and weakness AND
the need to work with others and allow for a
transfer of knowledge between students.

16. Haley Hart
Science Teacher
Southeastern High School
Detroit, Michigan

17. PASE Prep Academy
Southeastern High School
• Education Achievement Authority

18. Prep Academy at Southeastern

19. How is teaching blended different
than teaching traditional face-to-face?
What does blended learning look
like in my classroom?
• Haley
• Alex

20. Haley

21. How do you keep
students organized?

22. What does blended learning look
like in my classroom? (Alex)
One-to-One
One-to-One
Group Projects
Sm
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Gro
up
I ns
truc
tion

24. Folders
Student Accountability
Student Organization

28. How is planning your lessons
different in a blended learning
classroom than a traditional
classroom?
How do you personalize learning
for students?
• Alex
• Haley

29. DATA? (Alex)
What????

30. What data do I use?
Test 1 60.0% avg
Test 2 76.6% avg

31. Item Analysis for
Pulling Students
Into Small Groups

32. Individual Student Assessment
Test Comparison

33. Individual Conference with Student Work

34. Keeping Track of Data
•Notebook with student anecdotal information
•Pearson Online
•ILearn Platform
•Teachers Assistant Pro

39. Amazing Breakthrough Activity:
Advancing Student Centered Learning

41. Amazing Breakthrough Activity

46. Lesson Planning: Haley

47. Data to personalize
learning (Haley)

48. Personalize Learning,
Part 2 (Haley)
• Haley
• Alex

49. What technologies do
you find work best for
you?
• Haley
• Alex

50. Technologies Used
(Haley)

51. (Alex) Online Resources – Some paid, some free
Britannica: Pathways
Pearson Interactive Science
PBS Learning
Brainpop
NBC Discovery – Through ILEARN
Teachers Assistant Pro
Classdojo
Khan Academy
Knowmia

52. Recommendations and
Final Thoughts about
being a blended learning
teacher.
• Alex
• Haley

53. Criteria for Designing and Inquiry Based Activity
Students must:
•Have a problem to solve, such that, once the answers are known, the
methods and understandings are transferable to other problems or
applications.
•Know the problem is solvable, and experience success.
•Have background information, either provided by constructive
communication with the teacher, or be given the resources to locate
the information.
•Be allowed to temporarily fail, to see that one possible way of
approaching a problem may not work, such that they will be driven to
try again.
•Confront discrepancies and misconceptions, and ultimately see the
value of using information that was provided by the teacher, and/or
learned earlier.
Art Lebofsky

54. Better Strategies???
•Talk to other teachers in the field
•Visit Classrooms
•Network
•Go to conferences (I’ll be in Denver in December
for NSTA)

55. Thank you very much for
taking time out of your busy
schedule and joining us.
Reflecting on your teaching
practice is the first step in
getting better!!!

57. (Haley) Recommendations
and Final Thoughts
• Teach students to understand and
become agents in their own learning.
• Use the data as effectively as possible.
• Collaborate!

58. Other Questions?

59. Contact Info
• Alex Paraskevaides (Mr. P)
Lead Blended Learning and Science
Teacher, 7th Grade, Mott Hall V, New
York City - aparas@motthallv.org
• Haley Hart
PASE Prep Academy Science Teacher,
Southeastern High School, Educational
Achievement Authority, Detroit HHart@eaaofmichigan.org