Fitzell Acceleration Centers
Imagine a dynamic classroom learning environment where traditional lectures and lessons are enhanced by additional projects and activities, aligned to standards.
10 Expert Tips to Accelerate Learning With Station Teaching
While using station teaching or acceleration centers as an approach to co-teaching is often very successful for both teachers and students, it is important to use this approach correctly. To help those co-teachers already using, or thinking about implementing, an acceleration center approach in their classroom, here are:
Own Learning Quickly And Easily With Student Made Learning Centers
Many teachers don’t implement stations because they can take a considerable amount of time – and creativity – to put together. By allowing students to teach each other by constructing centers for their classmates, this burden is lifted and students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates. As Becky says, “Their ideas are much better than anything I could have come up with, and they love it because they’re ‘owning’ their products.” By allowing students to teach each other by constructing learning stations, students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates, resulting in better comprehension and memorization.
Own Learning Quickly And Easily With Student Made Learning Centers
Many teachers don’t implement stations because they can take a considerable amount of time – and creativity – to put together. By allowing students to teach each other by constructing centers for their classmates, this burden is lifted and students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates. As Becky says, “Their ideas are much better than anything I could have come up with, and they love it because they’re ‘owning’ their products.” By allowing students to teach each other by constructing learning stations, students become much more deeply engaged with the material as they think up ideas to teach their classmates, resulting in better comprehension and memorization.
A Powerful Strategy to Reach All Learners with Response to Intervention at the Secondary Level
Response to Intervention is a process that involves providing struggling learners with academic interventions that match their needs in order to help all students master the curriculum. My experience in secondary education has convinced me that every secondary classroom needs to begin Response to Intervention at the Secondary Level at Tier One of RTI: differentiated instruction.