Sat, Nov 30, 2019 10:55 AM
Incorporate Learning Stations with Ease!
The article “Methods and Strategies: Inventive Learning Stations” by Olga Jarrett, explains the process of incorporating learning stations into your classroom science lessons. The article was very informative and would be easy enough for any teacher from beginner to a veteran to follow and implement. Jarrett includes a detailed checklist to make setting up and facilitating the learning stations with ease. I found the article very helpful and gave me incite into gradually incorporating the stations into my own classroom.
This article applies to my own classroom because I have limited resources and time to teach science. The more engaged I can get my students the better they will remember the concepts and phenomena. Jarrett lays out the plan easy enough for it to be incorporated into my classroom and helps me realize that I need to be doing more hands-on inquiry-based science lessons. The only thing that I would need to invest in is supplies for small groups, which I think is easy enough. Jarrett points out that “the objectives are process-oriented” (2010). I know that I need to incorporate the process standards more in my own classroom and let them think like scientists, not just students.
This article is relevant to today’s classroom because of the push for inquiry-based learning. The learning stations that Jarrett describes in this article would definitely be the key to fitting in inquiry-based learning with the 5E learning model in a limited time frame. If you would like to know how to incorporate learning stations in a limited resource and limited time frame, then this article would help out tremendously, especially with the checklist that the author provides.
Jarrett, O. (2010). “Inventive” Learning Stations Suggestions for creative, engaging, and
manageable science learning stations. Science and Children, 56–59. Retrieved from https://s3.amazonaws.com/nstacontent/sc1001_56.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=AKIAIMRSQAV7P6X4QIKQ&Expires=1574798142&Signature=WePdxJa1L9shK2xpzT8reFwX5+U=