New Language

Flooding, blending, flipping, pull out, push in, strengthen the core, on and on goes the new vernacular of schooling, marching its way to become tomorrow’s cliché or maybe it already is. Through this new language comes new understanding about problems, new and old…growing understanding that runs much deeper than the novel terms we conjure.  To get there, I thought it might be useful to begin assigning some simple definitions to words I find us throwing around lately (no acronyms or mnemonics!):

intervention – teaching targeted on specific skills a student is lacking

flooding – pooling teaching resources in a coordinated schedule to create smaller groups of students for targeted interventions

pull out – when an intervention teacher teaches a small group away from their class

push in – when an intervention teacher joins a classroom as a second teacher to support students

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blending – a hybrid model of classroom instruction and online instruction

flipping – assigning video or text lectures of content as homework, then spending classroom time working with the content in experimental, hands-on, or otherwise application of the learning, flipping homework and classwork

balanced calendar – spacing out the typical 180 days of instruction to include longer breaks and a shorter summer break so that the calendar is balanced; inaccurately called “year-round” school

Since many of my readers include non-educators, please feel free to reply with your questions or additions of other terminology you’ve heard.  We can define them with you, for you, or learn from you!

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