Learning Centres
I love learning centers. I
believe that they engage students and teach them important work habits.
Learning centers provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate what they
can do, all the while allowing the teacher the time to circulate, work in small
groups or one on one conferencing. I am
a very unorganized person, so learning centers were hard for me to arrange at
first, but once I got them up and running, they organized my day for me!
I have the following centers
in my room:
Listening – our school has a
subscription to tumblereaders.com so students can go online and listen to
books, poems, etc.
Reader Response – Students
use this center to work quietly on their reading responses
Word Play- At this center,
students can complete various activities from pre-fixes to idioms.
Poetry – Students work
through this station creating different types of poetry (limerick, haiku, tanka
etc.) They create an anthology of their own poetry and read it to the class as
a read aloud.
Writing BINGO – Each student
has a BINGO card with different writing activities on it (proposal,
advertisement, comic strip, poem etc.) They have to complete one line each
term.
Editing Station – This is
where students go to proofread and edit work.
Computers – Various
activities are completed here.
Sample Learning Center (Grade 11 Academic
English)
