Station Rotation: Differentiating Instruction to Reach All Students 

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

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

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 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

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 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!

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.

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

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

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!

Every teacher has the ability to be a great teacher when all students behave and follow instructions. Not always the case. I’m a special education teacher. This kids are the kids I wish my students were. And I wish I could be like this teacher but I get caught in frustration dealing with behaviors every. Single. Day.

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

Every child deserves a good education and passionate educators like yourself!

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

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.

This is an excellent method but it is so important to remember to differentiate your differentiating! Remember that no two classes are alike and while stations do work well for some classes, others are not prepared at the beginning of the year (and perhaps not by the end if it either) to handle the self-regulating of non-teacher-lead tasks. We tend to think in terms of "we must try only these newer methods". Our classrooms should all have stations and we should only use PBIS. Not so, these should simply be tools for your arsenal with classes for whom it is appropriate. For some classes, traditional learning is indeed, still the most productive method. No two children are alike, and likewise no two class chemistries are alike. We as teachers must be flexible and that might mean a year of stations followed by a year of grid.

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

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

Differentiation is a tremendous amount of work. How are you supposed to find the time to differentiate every lesson every day? I have found over the years, its not realistically doable all the time although it looks and sounds easy.

Every kid like teacher . This teacher is amazing

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

Dit is een hele goede aanzet voor het nieuwe schooljaar. Hartelijk bedankt!

I lead a stations activity with my high school students they really weren’t excited about it because they would rather a teacher lecture...However I saw excitement in some of the students...

This is one of the best videos I have seen on this topic. Thank you! ~Jennifer

Love station learning

Well I am expected to differentiate in my class of 22 preschoolers, mixed ages 4 and 5 years old with two assistants that share a part-time role, and one of them is taken away from me constantly, so I am alone in the class most of the time. Oh, and I have a high achiever that really should have been moved to P1 but the school didn't want to promote the child. I am finding it very hard without the help of more staff.

I like this idea. I saw one of the schools is using this method too. But they have three teachers in one classroom, so basically one teacher can in charge of one station. For me, I’m teaching from reception to year 6, and I’m the only teacher in the classroom, it’s impossible for me to do different stations.

My favourite teaching video.

Interesting video. Thanks for sharing.

Station Rotation is a very effective way of learning.

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What if they could not able to finish up station before they swich?

It should work out if you have instrucional assistants. When you're the only adult there, and you have a group at a kidney table, and then you start hearing the other groups talk about their weekend, and you have to keep getting up to remind them to work quietly or talk quietly...

Yes stations are great but at our public school , they end in second grade and then it’s just sit down for one while subject . They need to continue this method.

Thank you for sharing! It's a wonderful video!

how much time is devoted to stations each day? Do you get interrupted during teacher time by kids at other stations being off task or unsure? How do you manage that?

This is brilliant! Since its 20 minutes for each station, do the kids need to finish the activity on the station before proceeding to the next station? Or do they proceed to next station regardless whether or not they finish their task?

It's a great strategy to motivate students to learn while also helping teacher to differentiate instructions. What if there is lack of digital resources? How can that be compensated?

Sounds like a great teacher

good video to watch

Thanks for sharing this. Looks like a fantastic school!

I love this. I just wish I can find content on how to implement this with my high school students. Every learning stations on youtube is mainly elementary. If its secondary, then it's only language arts. Any videos out there for 9 to 12 with social studies?

Nice expository teaching .

Brilliant Teacher

how do you handle a class with behavioral issues in such a setting?

Excellent class

This video makes me want to work so much harder to help my students become high achieving scholars! #!teach🍎🍎🍎

This is fantastic. How can this be done at high school?

I LOVE THIS.

what a brilliant teacher and approaches. i just wondering, in order to do this, we have to have at least one teacher or each station right? means that for 1 lesson, the main teacher need 2 assistants?

Awesome teacher

Awesome teacher ❤️

Amazing, very helpful

What kind of student group mix does the teachers in the Video make?

It is gteat if you have one or two assistants or a NOT crowded class.

I am curious, when do you include independent reading or partner reading?

This is great 👍😉

I like your video,,,

great video!

Love it!

I have a question for..anyone, really. In 1:44 we can see groups of students with different achievement levels. Would this be considered tracking? If so, are there more pros than cons in this practice?

How do you prevent this from becoming tracking?

Is this the Montessori method?

What is that website called that they use in that one station?

Soooooo... 4 teachers for 20 students?

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They are learning phonics? Wow

Looks good, but what's so special about it? Isn't this simply an adaptation of the way everyone teaches? Each student gets exactly what they need to make themselves a life-long learner.

What about teachers who don’t have co teachers? This is very challenging to do when you’re alone

I teach high school. They’re not as excited about learning as kids are at this age! I love them to pieces though! I loved this video. I want to do stations in my English class and came here for ideas.

I see that each station has one or two adults.... dDo you have some assistants? Because I have a group of 20 students and stations don't work because each station needs my supervision and I can't give it to all of them.

simple and effective.... For me if I will conclude, Differentiation is must in today's' classroom. It is essential now...