In station Each teacher Requires One teacher teaching, each can excellent teaches a teacher and independently timing, which reading lesson is responsible plan for an can take on making for a different area or lesson practice connections to aspect of the of strength Requires other texts, one lesson, or for a Each student management teacher teaches different lesson is exposed to of students a writing lesson entirely. There similar working on how to may also be material, but independently introduce independent groups can be May be dialogue in an work provided differentiated logistically interesting way, for the students. by level difficult and one group Students are Makes good depending on of students divided into two use of two your classroom works or more groups teachers for space independently depending on management on the how many purposes computers or in 'stations' are social studies available, and centres. either students remain in Teaching) travel from their groups centre to centre and travel to or students stay each station in one position during the and a teacher or course of the work travels to class period or them. block. (Rotational Teaching Station In parallel Provides a Requires The class is teaching, the smaller group excellent split in two, both class is split in and thus more timing, which teachers teach half and each individual can take the same teacher takes a attention practice lesson on cell half of the class Can provide Requires cycles to a to teach the control for collaborative smaller group of same socially-based planning students lesson. behaviour Can be difficult all receive the problems to invisibly same material. between differentiate in students a smaller group Requires that each teacher be equally strong in the material to be presented Teaching Parallel
Station Teaching (Rotational Teaching) In station teaching, each teacher and is responsible for a different aspect of the lesson, or for a different lesson entirely. There may also be independent work provided for the students. Students are divided into two or more groups depending on how many 'stations' are available, and either students travel from centre to centre or students stay in one position and a teacher or work travels to them. Each teacher can independently plan for an area or lesson of strength Each student is exposed to similar material, but groups can be differentiated by level Makes good use of two teachers for management purposes Requires excellent timing, which can take practice Requires management of students working independently May be logistically difficult depending on your classroom space One teacher teaches a reading lesson on making connections to other texts, one teacher teaches a writing lesson on how to introduce dialogue in an interesting way, and one group of students works independently on the computers or in social studies centres. remain in their groups and travel to each station during the course of the class period or block. Parallel Teaching In parallel teaching, the class is split in half and each teacher takes a half of the class to teach the same lesson. all receive the same material. Provides a smaller group and thus more individual attention Can provide control for socially-based behaviour problems between students Requires excellent timing, which can take practice Requires collaborative planning Can be difficult to invisibly differentiate in a smaller group Requires that each teacher be equally strong in the material to be presented The class is split in two, both teachers teach the same lesson on cell cycles to a smaller group of students
Workshop-Template-Six-Models-of-Team-Teaching.docx