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Station Rotation Model: Grouping Strategies

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, most secondary teachers do not learn how to design lessons using stations in credential school. Most of us are still be trained to teach using a whole group lesson model, so reimagining a lesson to rotate students through a series of stations feels daunting. Work directly with small groups of students.

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Use Digital Notebooks to Facilitate Book Clubs and Literature Circles at the Secondary Level

Catlin Tucker

Unfortunately, most secondary curriculum relies on a one-size-fits-all approach to reading. Instead of being assigned a book they must read, students are given a menu of books to choose from and the teacher groups them according to their book selection. .” It’s the book that grabs them and pulls them into the story.

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Station Rotation Model: Alternative Group Formations

Catlin Tucker

Teachers see my examples which show four separate groups and assume that all station rotations must have four groups. For example, I worked with a school in Southern California that dedicated Mondays to whole group instruction then Tuesday through Friday were rotations. Then the groups switch half way through the period.

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MasterMind Educator Groups: Build Safe Spaces for Innovation

The CoolCatTeacher

Mastermind groups are innovative ways to create safe spaces for teachers to grow and learn together. In this show, 2012 National Teacher of the Year Rebecca Mieliwocki shares how she has facilitated Mastermind groups successfully. Daniel Bauer has a free Mastermind Toolkit to help you gMastet started building mastermind groups.

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IXL Approved by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as a State-Approved Supplemental Literacy Solution for Grades K-5

eSchool News

/PRNewswire/ — IXL, the award-winning personalized learning platform used by 16 million students, has been named a High Quality Evidence-Based Instructional Material for Early Literacy by the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE).

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Maximizing Time with Data and Evidence-Enhanced Rotations at All Grade Levels

A Principal's Reflections

The opportunity now presents itself to personalize by ability grouping and a differentiated process. Following a short period of direct instruction with the entire class, the teacher breaks students into groups using data and the class engages in a series of activities during a set period. At Nicki's school, Quest Academy Jr.

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Using a Simple Memory Game to Teach Functional Groups in Biochemistry

Cycles of Learning

” This classic game, where players match pairs of cards, turned out to be a fantastic way for students to learn functional groups. In this case, I used it to help students memorize the names of functional groups, such as “alcohol,” and match them with their corresponding structures.

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