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Station Rotation Model: Grouping Strategies

Catlin Tucker

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. When I train teachers on the Station Rotation Model, they are quick to ask how I group my students. Writing level.

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Keep, Start, Stop: A Student Feedback Strategy

Catlin Tucker

Employing a simple feedback strategy like “keep, start, stop” helps you quickly take the temperature of the class and make any necessary adjustments to ensure the rest of the year is as productive and positive as possible. routine, strategy, activity) that you’d like to do in this class? The results were shocking!

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Effective Grouping Strategies in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

Barry Hoonan on episode 539 From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter Today, you’ll get advice for creating grouping strategies for your classroom from an expert teacher and author on the subject. Barry Hoonan, author of What Are You Grouping For?

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How to Teach Better: Master Reading Differentiation Strategies

The CoolCatTeacher

From the Cool Cat Teacher Blog by Vicki Davis Follow @coolcatteacher on Twitter This podcast with Jennifer Seravallo is dedicated to helping reading teachers improve their teaching methods by providing practical tips and in-depth insights into differentiated reading strategies. How do you select the right reading strategies?

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Blended Learning: The Whole Group Rotation

Catlin Tucker

Whole Group Rotation Model. If designing a blended lesson feels daunting, it may help to start with the whole group rotation model. Instead, teachers can rotate students between online and offline learning with a whole group rotation. A whole group rotation should be designed with the following questions in mind.

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Small Group Strategies That Build Literacy Skills

MiddleWeb

The authors of Welcome to Reading Workshop explain why student work in small groups is not just one of many teaching options but an essential everyday strategy to reduce teacher-student ratio, personalize learning, give students a voice, review, reteach, and apply new learning.

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5 Strategies to Engage Learners Around Flipped Instruction

Catlin Tucker

They relied on videos out of necessity to explain concepts and model strategies while students learned from home. Instead, they can spend more time facilitating learning and working directly with small groups of students. Engagement Strategy #1 Pair the Video with Questions. “What if students do not watch the video?”

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