Tips for station differentiation

Hello! I’m back from a long break away and ready to share some new strategies with you. There is only one week left in the month, but I am still going to use a theme for the next five days. My theme is not related to content, but format. This week, I’ll share five short videos filled with quick tips for the differentiated classroom. Today’s selection is short and filled with a handful of easy-to-implement ideas for using centers/learning stations in the [read more…]

A stations teaching lesson on fractions

Many teachers tell me they are interested in using stations, but they are not sure how to start. The MIDDLE Teacher blog has come to your rescue if you are one of those seeking quick and easy plans to use as you learn about this active and easy-to-differentiate lesson format.

The featured plan is a lesson on fractions but you could adapt the activities to teach just about any math concept. You have to [Read more…]

Treble clef music stations

If you have read Differentiation Daily at all in the last year or two, you know I love using stations to differentiate instruction in mixed-ability classrooms. I especially love seeing stations in classrooms where we don’t often see them….like in the music teacher’s lesson plans. For this reason, I had to feature Mrs. King Music Class for the idea about [Read more…]

A stations teaching lesson on fractions

Many teachers tell me they are interested in using stations, but they are not sure how to start. The MIDDLE Teacher blog has come to your rescue if you are one of those seeking quick and easy plans to use as you learn about this active and easy-to-differentiate lesson format. The featured plan is a […]

TODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Web-based science stations

Today, we are sharing a science lesson (from David Wetzel) featuring web-based stations from Suite 101. Note that once you involve web-based activities in your stations, differentiation becomes even easier. Instead of providing a range of materials to meet different needs, you can simply have different learners access different web resources.

Differentiating with station teaching

Today, I am going to feature one of the very best differentiation tools available to K-12 teachers: learning stations. Our featured post, therefore, is this short article by Michelle McFarland-McDaniels on setting up this model in the classroom.

Notebooking the election?

If you enjoy paging through scrapbooks and think that artifacts, photos, and journal entries are helpful tools for learning about a person or experience, you will appreciate today’s idea: notebooking in social studies. Notebooking can be an effective way to differentiate instruction, as it allows different students to create, collect, and choose different writings, illustrations, […]

TODD’S TECH TUESDAY: Apps for learners with autism

Free Technology for Teachers is one of the best blogs out there for educators. This week, Richard Byrne blogged about autism apps as featured on 60 minutes. Check out the post and learn more about how iPads can be used to help students learn but also to help teachers differentiate. Since no two learners need […]

Literacy center menu

I often feature posts about centers or stations but this is the first time I have found a monthly menu to help the teacher and students see the options that will be offered across the days, weeks, and month.

Stations in the music classroom

Recently I posted five ways to use stations or centers in K-12 classrooms. I thought I had provided a nice range of examples and could move away from this format for a bit, but then I found this nice article from Karen Stafford on using station teaching in the music room and knew it had […]