Are We Focusing on Student Growth – A Checklist
Are you focusing on your students’ growth or are you emphasizing other factors that we educators sometimes tend to focus on? Ask yourself the following: When one student doesn’t pass […]
Learning Stations
Keys to a Successful Learning Station
Learning Stations are becoming more and more popular. However, many schools and teachers are implementing them ineffectively. With a focus on a few key points, your learning stations will […]
How to Create Learning Stations
Learning Stations are a powerful tool that allow you to differentiate; reaching every student where they need help. They also allow students to remediate – spending as much time on […]
Plugging the Holes – Remediation that Works
You have probably felt the frustration of trying to teach a math skill to your class, only to realize that several of the students lacked the essential prerequisite skills to […]
What is a Learning Station
Traditionally, a learning station is an area in the room where one student – or a group of students – complete an activity on one skill. Normally, there are different […]
Why You Should Create Learning Stations
Learning Stations can have many positive impacts on your classroom and your students. Below are 10 reasons. Be sure to check out the related articles, as well as the free […]
How to Teach Your Students to Learn from Their Mistakes
I think you’ll agree that mistakes are a valuable teaching tool. Yet too often in the traditional model of teaching, students are penalized for making them, or afraid of making […]
Compiling the Station
At this moment in time, you have taken one math standard and broken it into all the prerequisite skills needed to accomplish this task. For example: If the standard was […]
Differentiation via Remediation Stations – part 4 – Practice
When a coach teaches an athlete the proper form of some skill (swinging a gulf club, throwing a football, shooting a basketball, etc.), the coach first demonstrates, then (s)he has […]
Differentiation via Remediation Stations – part 3 – the RETEACH
Have you ever tried to learn a new skill, but didn’t catch everything the first time you were taught? What did you do? I recently had to replace some pieces […]