Differentiated Instruction Strategies: Learning Centers in the Classroom
 Private Instruction $4,900• 35 Participants
• Training at your location
• Private Instruction
• Available Year Round
• Handicap Accessible
Instructor will provide six (6) hours of training and a copy of the accompanying Teacher Resource Workbook which provides a step-by-step program for implementing differentiated instruction in the classrooms. The Resource Workbook is 175 pages.
Providing meaningful and truly independent differentiated activities for the majority of your students while you are focusing on small group instruction is a challenge! Learning centers offer engaging and effective activities that will extend your students' learning through review and reinforcement, critical thinking, and cooperative work. Learning centers can support instruction for phonemes and phonics, reading comprehension, vocabulary, spelling, math facts, math concepts, science and social studies content. It offers teachers a wide array of options and examples for structuring learning centers to fit their own teaching approach and their students' learning styles and needs. The strategies in this workshop are derived from research-based instructional strategies proven to enhance student success.
It combines theory with hands-on activities and applications tailored to meet your individual classroom needs.
This professional development workshop will leave you energized and ready to implement learning centers for all subjects in your classroom the very next day!
Topics covered include:
• Integrating differentiation into your classroom
• Roles of teachers and students in differentiated classrooms
• Why use learning centers?
• Types of Learning Centers
• Diagnosing your students
• Differentiated instruction and standards
• Differentiated instruction through technology and game-based learning
• Designing effective learning centers for teaching and learning in your own classroom
• Setting instructional goals for learning centers
• Management of Learning Centers
• Model Learning Center Use
• Grouping students in learning centers
• Managing student interactions
• Subject and skill specific learning centers
• Setting up subject-based learning centers
• Reading
• Writing
• Spelling
• Math
• Science
• Social Studies
• Setting up activity-based learning centers
• Assessing students and learning center work
• Funding learning centers
• Resources and black-line masters  
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