Artifacts Overview

Math Stations / Workshop

The approach of turning units into mini-lessons that the students could work through in stations (segments), at their own pace, completely changed how I differentiated instruction in my classroom. Through the use of technology, I could prepare a variety of lessons with varying degrees of difficulty.

Meeting The Standards

Standard 2
c. Customize and personalize learning activities to address students’ diverse learning styles, working strategies, and abilities using digital tools and resources

Our class blog was the platform for all of our digital content and lessons to be stored. Student work and materials created by peer tutors was also posted online. The blog set up was perfect for math stations. Many of the students and parents were subscribed to the class blog posts and the notifications that they automatically received added another layer of communication and support between school and home.

Since math stations were completed by students, at vary paces, it was important to provide differentiated levels of content, instruction, and assignments. Through the use of the blog, I was able to direct students towards the work they were to complete by linking up materials appropriately.

Standard 5
b. Exhibit leadership by demonstrating a vision of technology infusion, participating in shared decision making and community building, and developing the leadership and technology skills of others

I had the opportunity to allow many colleagues to observe and visit my classroom during the course of the year in which I was piloting iPads in the classroom. To be exact, there were 38 teachers/admin to observe my classroom during the year. Stressful! :)

This allowed me to share ideas on how to integrate technology into the classroom and show many other professionals how the students can actively engage in the learning materials at varying paces and with differentiated lessons, all at the same time.