This well - produced piece is about a K - 8 school in Oakland, CA, that has adopted the classroom
rotational model of blended learning school - wide.
She chose to use
a rotational model of blended learning, one of several variations on the approach.
In the months since it adopted
the rotational model, known as Blended Learning for Alliance School Transformation, or BLAST, Tennenbaum has learned that adaptation to radical change does not come quickly or easily.
On that first hot and muggy day at Rocketship, we struggled through sweat and tears to figure out how to make
the rotational model work — and as long as we exist, we will continue to innovate.
Adding a «flexible block» to
our rotational model in order to give Rocketeers time to have richer, more personalized learning experiences every day
With persistence, we were able to execute
this rotational model in a manner that delivered for our Rocketeers — both academically and socially.
In 2007, we opened our first Rocketship school and began to pursue blended learning using
a rotational model.
Instability of Student's Day: Rocketship, to save money by hiring fewer teachers, has
a rotational model.
All the schools that partner with Seton use a «
rotational model,» in which a classroom teacher makes sure students» offline learning reinforces what they do on the computer.
Like the Seton schools, all of the ACE schools use
the rotational model.
The student score or data drives his / her placement in Level Two of
our Rotational Model.
Level Three of
the Rotational Model takes the mastered objectives and embeds them into Project Based Learning opportunities.
The multifaceted projects and
the rotational model create an environment where students can relate their knowledge and skills to the real world, which makes the STEM course not only educational but fun.
The rotational model is more widely used in elementary schools — 80 percent of elementary schools in California that use blended learning follow the rotational model — because many are already set up to have students rotate between stations.
In a case study of IDEA Public Schools in Texas published by DreamBox Learning,
the rotational model of blended learning was determined to be an effective means of increasing the achievement of students in this Title 1 School.