Station 12- Teacher Aid
This station is obviously different than all of the other stations because you will be leading it. No one knows your students better than you do, so knowing exactly what your students need and which students need what kind of help will ultimately be left up to your discretion. I will, however, provide you with some ideas as to what kinds of activities you can do with your students at this station.
This station is the perfect opportunity to work with two or three students on what they need the most assistance with. I suggest reviewing important unit concepts such as tallying, graph basics (how to label and create picture or object graphs), or reviewing vocabulary terms. I would challenge students who need something extra to think of real life examples of surveys, or reasons to gather information and display it in a graph. Students who need extra support can play a variety of graphing games, graphing activities and vocabulary review games. Many ideas of such games can be found on Pinterest and TeachersPayTeachers.
The teacher station is also a perfect place for both formative and summative assessment. While working with such a small group of students you can see exactly what mistakes students are making and what they are doing well. This information will help you with your full group teaching and help you target specific issues in your teaching. I suggest administering a casual vocabulary quiz or activity. I would also suggest giving the students a table with information to graph to test their graphing ability.
Most importantly, this station is a vital time to gather information about your students and either enhance or challenge their current knowledge. Because there are so many stations in this unit, you will not meet with every student every day, or even every two days. Use your time wisely and, most importantly, make sure your students are comfortable and having fun.
This station is the perfect opportunity to work with two or three students on what they need the most assistance with. I suggest reviewing important unit concepts such as tallying, graph basics (how to label and create picture or object graphs), or reviewing vocabulary terms. I would challenge students who need something extra to think of real life examples of surveys, or reasons to gather information and display it in a graph. Students who need extra support can play a variety of graphing games, graphing activities and vocabulary review games. Many ideas of such games can be found on Pinterest and TeachersPayTeachers.
The teacher station is also a perfect place for both formative and summative assessment. While working with such a small group of students you can see exactly what mistakes students are making and what they are doing well. This information will help you with your full group teaching and help you target specific issues in your teaching. I suggest administering a casual vocabulary quiz or activity. I would also suggest giving the students a table with information to graph to test their graphing ability.
Most importantly, this station is a vital time to gather information about your students and either enhance or challenge their current knowledge. Because there are so many stations in this unit, you will not meet with every student every day, or even every two days. Use your time wisely and, most importantly, make sure your students are comfortable and having fun.