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Ms. Cook found this crackerjack post that contains some very valuable tips as you plan and manage your station rotations from Caitlin Tucker (click here to find out more about Ms. Tucker). All 10 items may or may not fit your instructional style, classroom management style, or lesson goal of that day --however, even if all of them do not fit, there is probably a few (if not all) that are very valuable!!!!
*Please comment below if you have more helpful hints for others in planning/managing station rotations (just please keep everything constructive and positive :) This week Mrs. Butner created a Byzantine Blended Learning Activity for her students. Some of the resources she used in this activity are: Nearpod, Juno (Jupiter Assessment Module), Microsoft Forms (and Quizizz, and Flipgrid for early finishers) -- so if you have questions about any of these resources she is an excellent person to ask!!!!
Mrs. Butner's students were placed into 4 groups(stations) and the groups completed 3 activities. The pictures above display her instructions to students that she posted on her projector, the instructions she gave them for each individual station, and also some snapshots of her students engaged in her activities. Here are some takeaways Mrs. Butner had after the lesson: (1) She put the students in groups by level. By grouping students this way, she was able to do the following: (a) schedule the students that needed the most assistance to meet with her first (b) differentiate the tasks in an organized manner (c)) allow the students that did not need as much assistance to move onto enrichment activities more smoothly as a group. (2) She found that completing 3 activities in a class period was tight --- next time, she is going to play around with having 2 main activities to complete (and still have the 4 different groups) and provide enrichment activities for students to finish early. (3) Because the blended learning activity allowed Mrs. Butner to meet with students in small groups, she was able to pinpoint students who were not working up to their potential (due to feeling more comfortable to share and articulate ideas in a smaller group setting). Other items to note: (1) Mrs. Butner had previously used all the tools in this lesson during whole group activities so the students were proficient with the tools before they were asked to complete activities on their own using those tools. This is very important and will save your sanity!!!! Addtional Resources: Immersive Reader is a text read-aloud feature available in Office 365 Word Online and OneNote Online. If you have students that would benefit from a read-aloud feature, you can save a document in OneDrive and share it with those students. The students can choose Immersive Reader and have the document read aloud. Mr. Manley (8th Grade Writing) uses Immersive Reader as a revision tool for students as they review their writing. When his students have their words read back to them using the Immersive Reader, they are more successful at finding their own mistakes. He says this is an especially useful R & E tool. Options include ability to change voice type, speed, identify number of syllables and color-code the parts of speech. NOTE: Students have to have their writing open in Microsoft Word Online (in their OneDrive) to use Immersive Reader (it is also available in their email and OneNote). If you have found Immersive Reader useful in your classroom, please leave a comment below explaining how you use it! Above is a snapshot from an activity Mr. Butner created for the 7th grade ELA team....
He created a "generic" quiz in Nearpod with just a few questions (i.e. 5) where he (and the other 7th grade ELA teachers) can gather formative data from their students and also use it as a review game --they don't have to keep creating it. The student's can collaborate in teams and you can have a fun competition between the teams--- to encourage use of their best thinking skills and positive collaboration. Also: (1) You can make it where students can complete the Nearpod individually and hide their names and just show results --- you can also hide group names and only show results too. (2) You can show them the results of the previous class period(s) as a whole group and the class periods can compete to get the highest score. Before diving into Blended Learning, here are some great tips from our own RMS Teachers:
(Please let me know if you have any other helpful hints that you would like to share with everyone and I will get it posted for others to use as they create their activities) From Ms. Cook, 6th Grade ELA:
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