These slides walk through the practicalities of a station rotation in the blended learning model of the Education Achievement Authority schools.

1. Principal’s
Retreat
Level 1 and 2
Ashley Higgins

2. Important Aspects for Centers
 Classroom
Arrangement
 Routines and Expectations
 Typical Center Rotation

3. Classroom
Arrangement

4. Instructional
Center
Evidence and
Assessment
Center
Imagine
Learning
Center
Flow Chart for Center
Rotation
Listening
Center
Buzz
Center
Staple Center
Group
Practice
Center

5. Centers
The six table centers feature:
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Three separate folders that
are color coded to
correspond to a specific
target, group, and level
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Within these folders are
various activities that function
to assist the students to master
a target or targets

6. Back of Room
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The back of the room
features activities including:
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Word Wall Exercises
Leveled Readers
Books on Tape
Educational Puzzles
Flexible Meeting Area for
Discussing the Agenda on the
Carpet

7. Typical Center
Execution
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Dividing students, targets, and
learning objectives:
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Assess students at the beginning of
the year through Performance
Series then divide intro appropriate
groups with corresponding colors
(change groups with each testing
period)
Have two to three students at a
center
Provide individual and
collaborative projects
Offer various learning modalities to
show mastery
Provide table and carpet exercises

8. Routines
and
Expectations

9. Cleaning Up a
Center
To transition to a new center:
1.
I ask my students to stop their
activity and say “if you can
hear my hands clap once, if
you can hear my hands clap
twice, if you can hear my voice
clap three times, wiggle your
fingers in the air, now give me a
scholar position.”
2.
Following this attention grabber
I ask my students to clean up
silently and place their heads
on their table when finished.
When the table finishes I inspect
them and give them a point
depending on quickness and
cleanliness.
Behavioral Narration is
key

10. Movement to a
New Center
1.
2.
3.
I ask my students to point to the
center they will go to after I get
they show me their center is
finished by having the head
down.
I then as my students show me
how they move (with a hug and
bubble).
Finally show me what they will
do with their heads when they
arrive.
Behavioral Narration is key

11. Checkmark
System
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If you receive more than:
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3 check marks it is half of your
recess
6 checkmarks you lose all your
recess
9 checkmarks it is a transfer to a
buddy room
12 checkmarks is a phone call
home
15 checkmarks is a pass to the
office

12. Clip Marking
System
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Every table possess a clip
chart
Every three checks a student
receives a color change
My students know that every
clip down has a certain
consequence

13. Clear
Expectations with
Rewards
Posted at the front of the room I have posters
that reveal:
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Personal Rewards you may receive
depending on your individual point gains
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Group Rewards depending on the
amount of points your group receives
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Very concise and clear rules for the
maintenance of centers
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Consistent consequences of what may
occur if you fail to recognize our rules

14. Engaging Family
To ensure that parents understand their
students behavior and mastery of targets I
send home a sheet of paper that
dictates:
1)
How may check they received
throughout the week,
2)
The targets mastered,
3)
Followed by additional comments.

15. Typical Center
Rotation

16. The Division Of
Groups
Typical division of groups requires:
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A Performance Series test that possess
their relative mastery of various
targets
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Dividing groups allows you to focus
your attention on weak areas that
students need more focused
attention upon
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The colors offer the target which the
group desires to master that week
and therefore the main objective of
every activity in their folder at the
various centers

17. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Small Group
Instruction

18. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Listening
Center

19. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Buzz Center
(varies depending on the unit)

20. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Group Practice
Center

21. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Staple Center

22. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Imagine
Learning

23. Following the
Green Group:
Objective: Review of Word
Families
Center Activity: Evidence or
Assessment Center

24. Scoring For
Centers

25. Buzz Grades
After a student completes a
specific objective and shows
mastery through three pieces
of evidence I enter their grade
within Buzz.

26. Sticker Chart
Following their grade on Buzz I
allow my students to place a
sticker on their target chart
which they greatly enjoy.