How can we reach students at many different learning levels with different learning styles, coming from different backgrounds in the same classroom? The answer is differentiated instruction. This describes my classroom. My at-risk students live in a high poverty area (70% qualify for free or reduced price lunch), and nearly one-fourth have special needs.
They love to play, to build, and to create, so why not let them do all of those things with math and science?
These students look forward to working in small groups with hands-on materials that allow them to focus on their strengths.
My Project
I have observed over the last few years that when students are given the opportunity to be more active during class lessons, they are more engaged, more attentive, and more likely to retain the math skills we are covering. We have danced, we have rhymed, we have clapped and skipped through various math lessons, and the students love it.
Short bursts of activity create long-term memory!
Creating stations allows me to help student learn new skills, practice previously taught skills, and allows students to become stakeholders in their own learning. In order to accomplish this students need various materials that encompass different learning styles. I am asking for a complete set of Hands-On Measurement Centers, a complete set of Math Folder Games, a Mastering Math Games Library, four Power Pens, a Build & Learn Volume Kit, a set of Show What You Know Math Performance Tasks Cards, a Travel Math Measurement Problem Solving Kit, a set of Division Power Pen Quiz Cards, a set of Multiplication Power Pen Quiz Cards and a set of Fractions Power Pen Quiz Cards. My students will use the power pens and quiz cards in different stations to practice their math functions. They will use the math games and volume kit for enrichment during their choice station time.
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