Let’s take reading, for example. Reading is broken down into 5 areas: phonological awareness, fluency, vocabulary, spelling, and comprehension. If you address all five of these areas every day in every lesson, can you imagine the growth your students would achieve? Many classrooms neglect these because they assume that students have already learned it, focusing solely on the grade level skill. I can tell you from experience, this is rarely the case. If you can design activities that hone in on these specific areas, you will be amazed at what your students will achieve. Your stations should reflect activities in these areas. For example: One station can be for vocabulary Station Teaching
Station teaching is one great way to utilize co-teaching. Station teaching is when students are broken up into groups and travel through different stations in the room after a set amount of time. There are many benefits to station teaching. One is that each teacher has a clear job and needs focus on a smaller group. Another benefit is that the students are in a small group enabling them more teacher attention and hands on experience. One sample lesson could be that each branch of the government is a station that the students go to. Some disadvantages to station teaching are that it requires a lot of planning and the stations must take the same amount of time. Also at times it could be too loud. All in all station teaching can be utilized in many classrooms.