Crowdsource the best ideas for engaging students in stations!
Despite working on a school campus surrounded by other talented educators, it’s easy for teachers to feel isolated and disconnected. Many teachers are so busy treading water to stay on top of their workloads they don’t feel like they have the time to connect or collaborate with other teachers. However, making time to share ideas and learn from the other educators on campus or in a department can keep teachers engaged, excited, and experimenting.
When I lead workshops on the Station Rotation Model, I encourage the teachers in the training to begin a station rotation idea document. The goal is to create a shared space online where teachers can capture and share their favorite station activities and help to inspire each other.
If teachers add strategies, activities, and resources they are designing, using, and having success with to an idea document, they can create visibility about what is working. This has the potential to elevate the quality of learning that is happening across classrooms.
A simple strategy like this idea document also has the potential to lighten the load for teachers because they can borrow great ideas from one another. I know there are limited hours in a day, so it is critical that teachers create spaces to share and learn from one another.
The Station Rotation Model and UDL: Elevate Tier I Instruction and Cultivate Learner Agency is available now! I’d love for you to check it out, share it with a colleague, and let me know what resonates most with you. If you have any questions about the book, please post a comment!
School leaders interested in using the book for a staff-wide study can place a discounted bulk order for 10 or more copies. If you and your teachers need additional support, I offer customized professional learning that is hands-on, practice-based, and tailored to your team’s needs. Together, we can support your teachers in developing their UDL practice, differentiating instruction more effectively, and elevating Tier 1 instruction. We can even utilize the Station Rotation Model to create space for Tier 2 support and Tier 3 intervention within general education classrooms. And, we can explore how this model can help us position students as active agents leading their learning!
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Would you be able to share this document on Twitter and share the responses? I’d love to see others’ examples. I’m the only one in school doing blended learning.
Hi Cheska,
I can start a public document that folk can comment on, but this is just a template. What is your subject area/grade level? Maybe I can start one specific to the area you teach and try to connect you with other blended teachers.
Catlin
I love this idea and would be happy to collaborate as I try this out, too!
Caitlin, I read in Balance with Blended learning that you created single skill rubrics for each of the common core standards. Is this something you’d be willing to share? I’m familiar with creating progressions for writing standards from our district’s self-created rubrics, but I’m a bit stumped on rephrasing the standards (I think because they don’t sound very kid-friendly).
Hi Lindsay,
What grade level do you teach? I can try to share some of my rubrics so you can see how I adapted the language though I would be happy to do a sample for you at your grade level 🙂
Catlin