Transcript Busy Bee`s Station Management Training

Busy Bee’s Station Management
Training
2009-2010
Using the same language…
• All classrooms on campus will be using
the same station management system.
• Busy Bee’s Management Plan will be used
daily.
• This will help in ease of team planning
and consistency across our classrooms.
Campus Guided Reading Instructional Requirements
• All students are to receive guided
reading instruction for a minimum of 4
days a week.
• All at-risk students will receive guided
reading 5 days weekly + additional ARI
instruction.
• Using this consistent management
system will ensure ALL students WILL
receive daily instruction.
Review of Busy Bees
• Students go to 4 stations daily.
• The length of time depends on your
grade level… 15-30 minutes per station.
• This occurs Monday-Thursday.
• Stations/ Guided Reading should be
done at all costs!
Finish-Up Friday
• Friday is meant as a time to finish up
and correct work, review misconceptions
and re-teach as needed.
• Many teachers use fun stations as an
incentive for good behavior and
completing work.
• “Fun Stations” should still have
academic goals and basis.
Fun Friday Management
• Take a minute to discuss at your table
some ideas you have for Friday…
– Management
– Activities
– Routines and Procedures
On the Job…
• Students are to have a specific job at
each station.
• They are held accountable for these
jobs by you.
• The more specific you are about the job
the students are to complete the more
on-task the students will be.
This is not a time for new learning!
• All “jobs” should be a REVIEW of
material that was previously taught.
• This is a time for students to practice
TEKS that were taught to mastery.
• Often times lessons that were done the
previous week are modified and put into
stations to perfect and practice the
new learning that previously took place.
This is not a time for worksheets!
• Students should be working with handson materials.
• Genuine activities that promote
learning.
• Cooperative learning should be
encouraged.
A Student’s Job is Never Done!
• A student should never be able to say
“I’m done!”
• Always have specific routines and
procedures for what to do when you are
finished.
• All follow up activities should be TEK
based and again a review.
• Think about leaving out old favorites for
children to revisit.
Holding Accountable
• Make sure that you are holding students
accountable for a job that they are to
complete.
• This may be by a product that they are
turning in or by observation prior to
clean up of what they have done.
• Folders should be checked Thursday so
that you know who still has work to do.
High Standards
• You will get what you accept. If you
accept messy, half completed work…
this is what you will get.
• You must set standards and enforce
them consistently.
• Students must know ahead of time and
be held accountable for your
expectations.
More than just the TEKS…
Students learn through stations…
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Responsibility and self-motivation.
Compromise.
Cooperation.
That their actions have consequences.
To help others.
Patience and tolerance.
What’s the 1st step?
• Decide what your stations are going to
be.
• You will need to have eight stations in
place in addition to guided reading
(horseshoe) and light bulb.
Examples might include:
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Listening
Library
Fluency
Poetry
Word Work
ABC
Writing
Big Book
Computer
Non-negotiable
Fluency is a huge issue on our campus!
1st & 2nd grade classrooms must have:
• Fluency station
– Fluency cards, rereading familiar books
• Poetry Station
• Listening Station
Two Daily Stations
• There are two stations that children go
to daily these are:
– Horseshoe… Guided Reading
– Light bulb…
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Math board
Word Work
Waterford
Familiar book reading/ book buckets
Light bulb
• Take a moment to discuss at your table
ideas for management of light bulb.
• This is your largest station.
• Think about…
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Where will the kids sit?
How will I store activities for the week?
What has worked in the past?
What do I need to change?
Designating a Space
• Gather the materials that are needed
for each station.
• Designate a space for each station.
• Think about the noise level at each
station and what kind of movement
there will be.
Defining the Space
• Think about where you will be sitting for
guided reading.
• Can you see all the stations clearly?
• Are there barriers that you can use to
keep children in their area?
– Rug
– Shelf
– mats
Things to Think About!
• How often will you add or change your
materials?
• How will you differentiate your
materials within your stations?
• When will you do your mini-lessons to
introduce new stations?
Setting Routines
• During the first week of school begin
introducing the stations.
• Give the children an opportunity to
explore what is at each station.
– Model whole class
• Demonstrate and practice how to
properly use and store materials.
Introductions…
• Introduce stations one at a time,
explicitly demonstrating and practicing
the routines for using it with the
children.
• A new center should not be introduced
until the children fully understand how
to use the station previously introduced.
• Consider introducing one to two stations
daily the first week of school.
Get Moving!
• Role play with your children how to move
through your stations.
– How do you read the station map?
– What should the noise level be?
– What signal will you use to lower the noise
level, move children, and signal attention?
– What should the students have with them
when they go to stations?
To/ With/ By
• Think about how to go through the
gradual release of responsibly with each
routine and station you go through.
– First demonstrating by the teacher
– Completing with the students… teacher
observes and redirects.
– Handing responsibility over to the students.
Guaranteeing Independence
Teachers must…
• model appropriate behavior
• allow for a gradual release of
responsibility
• provide a risk free environment and a
proper independent work level
• communicate clear, explicit
expectations.
How to store work…
• Talk with students about how to store
completed work.
• Where does the work go in their folder
– When it is done?...
– When they are still working?
• Where and how are folders stored?
2nd Week of School…
• Students should be walking through the
stations with you monitoring their
behavior and routines.
• Consider putting review work from the
previous school year that they should
already be able to do.
• Walk around and talk with the students,
redirecting as needed.
Make a Big Deal of the Little Things!
• Stop and have mini-lessons when needed
as you see problems arise.
• Point out the good behavior you saw
happening.
• Make Looks Like/ Sound Like charts for
stations.
• Make I Can lists for follow up activities
and post at stations.
3rd Week of School…
• The students should be in stations full
swing!
• All teachers should be beginning to
teach guided reading.
• Guided Reading books should be going
home with students no latter than this
week.
The Characteristics of a Well-managed Classroom
• Students are deeply involved with their
work, especially with academic, teacherled instruction.
• Students know what is expected of
them and are generally successful.
• There is little wasted time, confusion,
or disruption.
• The climate of the classroom is workoriented, but relaxed and pleasant.
– Harry Wong
The First Days of School
All Battles are won before they are
fought.
Sun Tzu