I love how we are maintaining a learning focus during a short week that could easily be blown off as educational fluff. As we move into the holiday season and kids (ok, let's be honest - adults too) get a little "off balance," it's important to maintain high engagement and focus. By implementing authentic learning and highly engaging instruction, everyone maintains the focus for learning.
What? The Fitness Room is booked? No big deal! Check out Health/Fitness getting creative with space and keeping all kids focused on healthy habits. I've been impressed by how this team works together to share equipment, space and students in order to have all students engaged in healthy activities!
Station Teaching is still one of my favorite instructional methods for student engagement (in case you missed the last blog about this, I thought I should be clear). In this room, collaborative teaching with a student teacher adds to the focused instruction. While one teacher is a station discussing the principle of Confucianism with students, the other is monitoring the learning activities at other station, activities which include computerized quiz games, videos, and primary source analysis.
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