This is Jennifer Gonzalez welcoming you to episode 196 of the Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.

In this episode we will be exploring four models for using blended learning in your classroom.

Once upon a time, the content of a formal education came to students through one of two pathways.

They either listen to it in a teacher's lecture or they read it in books.

Now technology has opened up more pathways.

Students can read online articles, watch videos, participate in digital simulations,

and do interactive lessons at whatever time and pace works for them.

While teachers are freed up to do more one-on-one work with students like conferencing, assessment, and small group instruction.

This weaving together of technology-based and face-to-face instruction is most often referred to as blended learning.

And if a teacher can get that weaving process right, it can result in far more personalized learning for students

and much more satisfying work for teachers.

But that's the key, getting the weaving process right.

Because if you don't have a good plan for blended learning, you can end up wasting time and creating frustration for yourself and your students.

And that is where today's guest, Katlyn Tucker, can help.

For quite a few years, every time I wanted to send a teacher some resources about blended learning, my go-to was Katlyn Tucker.

Through her blog, Tucker had regularly shared how she had restructured her teaching so that she no longer took work home at night or on weekends,

keeping all of the instruction in her high school English classroom.

She did this through stations in which students worked sometimes in groups, sometimes independently, and sometimes directly with her.

Having been an English teacher myself, I was fascinated by her process because it would have made my own work far more sustainable in the classroom.

Since then, Tucker has written a handful of books on blended learning. And when I saw that she had a new one called the Complete Guide to blended learning,

it seemed like the perfect time to have her on the podcast to share some of what she knows.

In the book, Tucker explains exactly what blended learning is.

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