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Managing Student Centers in the Classroom
Eight elements can assist in developing and implementing an effective classroom management
system.
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Pre-Planning Activities
• Form flexible groups based on assessment
• Identify appropriate center activities also based on assessment
• Design Center Management System
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Guidelines to forming flexible groups:
Keep group sizes small (5-7 students maximum)
Reduce the group size to 3-5 for students in need of intensive support
Base small groups on instructional need with specific instructional strategies in mind
Consider behaviors, attitudes and work ethics of each student
Monitor the progress of high risk students more frequently to make instructional changes or small group changes.
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Identify appropriate center activities also based on
assessment
• Students must participate in activities they may either do independently or with help from a peer of higher skill ability.
• Plan with the learning objective, not the product in mind. Though activities should engage students, there need not be a lot of fluff.
• Time must be a consideration.
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Time:
• If you have allotted 20 minutes for the center and the activity only requires 10 minutes, the students will need something else to do. Continuous support materials such as puzzles, letter stamps, magnetic letters and boards should be available at each center for use when students finish an activity.
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Implement a Behavior Management System
• Model, practice and review appropriate classroom procedures to encourage positive classroom behaviors.
• Don’t fret. It may take at least six weeks to implement student centers before beginning teacher led centers.
• During this time the teacher should be roaming the room monitoring students and providing assistance as needed.
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Try:
• Send students to one rotation daily until they get the hang of it before trying two or three rotations daily because:
• Students need to be on task• Teacher needs to focus on students at
teacher led center and this isn’t possible if students are off task.
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Before implemention of student centers, students need to know what to do when:
Something does not work They do not understand the activity at a
center They complete the activity Whom to go to for help How to clean up How to decide who goes first in a pair or
group activity
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When behavioral problems arise ask:
• Did I do an effective job teaching the activity
• Is the activity interesting to students?• Have students mastered the skill and
need to move on?• Is the center too difficult to do
independently?• Did I introduce too many new centers at
once?
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Checklist:
Listening center: What should Ms. Smith hear: What should Mrs. Smith see?
Silence as students follow along Students sitting in chairs with feet on
In text the floor
Reading as students reread along Students using their pointer fingers
With the narrator to follow along in the text
Only one student managing the tape
recorder.
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Center Chart
• Checklist and management board support on task student behavior Teachers are responsible for:
o Holding all students accountableo Make consequences meaningfulo Being consistent when implementing the behavior
management systemo Reviewing the rules and consequenceso Practicing classroom procedures.
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It is important that students practice classroom routines again and again until the classroom centers and transitions are running smoothly.
TEACHERS MODEL/REVIEW expected
behaviors continuously
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Give Explicit Center Directions
• Model use of new center materials during whole group lesson or at the teacher led center
Format: Teacher models and explains: Some activities need repeated modeling
such as completing an open sort, but some only require modeling once like an alphabet matching game.
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Teacher Provides Guided Practice
• Students practice what the teacher models and the teacher provides prompts and feedback
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Teacher Provides Supported Application
• Students apply the skill as the teacher scaffolds instruction
• *Scaffolding instruction:The support that helps the student
complete tasks that would be unattainable without assistance.
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Independent Practice
• Students apply the skill independently
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Organize the Classroom
Enables the student to: Easily locate materials Focus on academic tasks Use center time productively
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TEACH
• Students how to keep materials organized, replace materials when needed, and clean up in an orderly and timely manner. Modeling behavior results in student cooperation in helping take care of centers and limits classroom disruptions.
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Manage Transitions
• Variety of signals may be used to indicate to students that it is time to change centers
• Make every minute count by singing rhyming songs, nursery rhymes or playing word games while the students are cleaning up.
• BE CONSISTENT with all techniques
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Establish Accountability
Important that accountability is established for center activities.
Helps students stay academically engaged and to tell if students can apply what they have been taught
Give feedback in a timely manner Prevents students from practicing the same errors Instills importance of quality work Shows the importance of the task
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Keep in Mind:The process of learning is more important than
creating a product at each center. Students need to be accountable for work completed, but
there does not always have to be a product.Practice being aware of center activity, even if
you are actively involved with small group activity.
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Finally:Reading centers should provide opportunities
for students to practice, demonstrate, and extend previously taught skills.
Using assessment data to form groups, planning appropriate teacher led and independent student center activities, and consistently monitoring progress will help support and
manage centers in the classroom
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References:Diller, D. (2003) Literacy work stations: Making stations work. Portland, Maine: Stenhouse
Publishers.Harris, T.L. & Hodges, R.E. (Eds.). (1995) The literacy dictionary: The vocabulary of reading and
writing. Newark, Delaware: International Reading AssociationSnow, E.E., Burns, M.S. & Griffin, P. (eds.). (1998). Preventing Reading Difficulties in Young Children. Washington, D.C.: National Academy PressTeacher Resource Guide: Center for Reading Research, Florida Department of Education