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At Rethink Math Teacher we help teachers use Skills Based Learning Stations to effectively reach every student in the room regardless of their level, prerequisite knowledge, or what accommodations they need.
Skills Based Learning Stations automatically differentiates your instruction so that you can accommodate every student at their level and help them achieve real learning gains.
What is a Skills Based Learning Station?
A skills based learning station is a learning station designed to help the student master one skill. Once the student has mastered that one skill, she is progressed to the next learning station, and then the next.
We help teachers reach their students through learning stations that do the following:
- Differentiate Instruction so no one is left behind
- Give students as much time and practice as they need
- Not penalize students for failure
- Give Immediate Feedback
- Celebrate success
Why You Should Differentiate
Not everyone in your class has the same needs and abilities. Some are not able to do some of the skills needed to perform the grade level work. Some take longer than most to learn something, while others move quickly. Some students make a lot of mistakes and need to learn from them, others require more practice than the majority of students to master a concept.
How can you reach all of these students at the same time?
Not through whole group instruction!
Instead, you can reach each student in your class by targeting their need, and meet it with learning stations.
Learning stations will allow you to remediate your weaker students while you accelerate your stronger students. This will reduce classroom management issues. Read this article to learn more reasons to use learning stations to reach all of your students.
Where do I begin?
I have three options to help you learn more about skills based learning stations, that will guide you through the process of building and implementing them into your classroom.
Free Cheat Sheet
The cheat sheet (downloadable PDF) is a series of many different resources that we have on the website that will help you learn more about skills based learning stations. It’s a free download, click here.
The Book, “Reach Them All”
Reach them all is a book (available as PDF, eBook, and physical soft cover) that will guide you through the step by step process of creating skills based learning stations for your class on the skills you choose. Multiple resources are included to help simplify the process, as well as many examples and illustrations to help you create the stations, and implement them with success.
Learn more about the book by clicking here.
The Online Course
How to Differentiate Instruction with Learning Stations is a 3 part, video-based, online course dedicated to helping you create and implement learning stations into your instructional design.
Each part of the online course contains online teaching videos as well as resources to help you gain success. Learn more by clicking here.
