Intern Year-9/23-9/27

One of the classes I took as a participant taught us how to plan and create literacy workstations. This year is the first time where I've seen a teacher use this teaching strategy, which I've found exciting. The first thing I learned was that creating the workstations is extremely hard work. A teacher needs a variety of teaching resources, materials, and space. What was very interesting to me was that my mentor teacher's guide for creating these stations came from a book I've worked with before. This allowed me to be a part of the planning process, which will help my greatly when I have my own classroom. In my classroom we first created an "I can" list for each station that gives students a variety of activities to complete. We then modeled each station for the students, which I felt was very important. Once we felt the students had a grip on how stations worked we allows them to try one station a day. I learned quickly that creating all the station is completely worth it in the end. My students absolutely love going to each station. Almost everyday the students ask when it is time for stations and are eager to start. This is definitely something I want to implement in my classroom.