Station Rotation: Differentiating Instruction to Reach All Students

Every kid in the world deserves a teacher like Miss Gallagher. Brilliant teacher!

I am a preschool teacher in a daycare and i believe in finding creative and innovative ways to provide a learning environment that allows the children to grow and learn at their own pace. This teacher is amazing

As a fellow 1st grade teacher, I deeply appreciate this video. Centers are an exceptional way to differentiate instruction. She’s also very right in emphasizing how much time & preparation it takes. This is my 4th year teaching & I’ve always done guided reading. I began guided math this year & I’m NEVER looking back! If you’re a teacher reading this, read the book Guided Math in Action. I’d encourage you to make Guided Math a part of your curriculum in some way, shape, or form. Lastly, Seesaw is a great, free resources for center work as well!

I used this as my teaching strategy. I called it Carousel Technique where students are assigned to do something by group and rotating untill each group completed the designed task in every learning station. This involves movement, performing specific tasks, forming concepts, manipulation of IMS, interactions, and creating new concepts out from the prior knwoledge. The involvement of the teacher is a must so that children will be guided on what to accomplish in every learning task/station.

I am an English teacher in a secondary school from Europe. Our biggest problem is not the differentiation part, but the shortage of pedagogical staff. If you stand alone in front of 28 teenagers, most of whom would not listen to you but interrupt your words once every three seconds, you will feel desperate. At least I and my colleagues do really feel overloaded sometimes. We have also tried a lot of methods and are still trying. Some pupils or students don't even give you even a little bit of respect. It's so sad for our time.

I love the concept of station rotations, it appeals to all different styles of learning and allows students to construct knowledge in ways that are most effective for them. Great video!

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Amazing Teacher with awesome classroom management, relationships, high expectations and engagement!

My school has started to implement PLI (Personalized Learning Initiative), I believe that is what the acronym stands for. I am enjoying watching these videos. I'm learning a lot.

Teacher deserve more money! It is a lot of extra work after school to create these wonderful stations !

I just love this video, the rotation station strategy and the thoughtfulness behind every aspect of this differentiation tool.

I absolutely love this classroom! The teacher is engaging and has created a love for learning in her student's. An environment has been created in which no matter what their level is they are able to grow and thrive without feeling "less than" the other students. Well done!

This is great I did not know that I used this method when I taught my children. This is very effective teaching love it.

Thanks Jennifer, fantastic video that has really helped me think about how I will set up my new classroom next term. Thanks for providing the detail, and I love the fact that you only have three stations and groups.

This is a very real productive and fishing compassion professional teaching this allows a child and children whom are on different levels of Education to have a chance to feel as if they're really learning something and get a chance to learn something where they haven't could not understand how to learn it was lacking on some level of Education able to strengthen other sources of Education levels and I speak as a special ed student now 47 years of age I thank you for sharing this needed story

This is what I did for my self contained behavioral classroom and it work wonders 😊

I have worked in childcare and observed classroom's and this is a very common and effective strategy!

stations are a wonderful way to differentiate in the face to face model, I will work on adding it to my online teaching

I have taught grades Pre-K-3rd. I really thought this video was very helpful. Thank you!!

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