How are Action stations meeting the individual needs of your students?

Planning for diverse needs and interests is always challenging. In many cases you are exposing students to new experiences and thinking through careful planning and design. 


These are a few tips to follow to ensure you are meeting the needs of your students. 

• Planning carefully with the students in mind
• Reflecting on PMI at the end of the week on planning
• Math goals for maths and reinforcing learning through inquiry with equipment  taught at math time
• Challenge Board to get shared language happening and peer support, addresses hot spots in spelling and maths
• Reflection time is a powerful place to do this and carry out an expectation
• Focus question at start of week must address learning to learn and scaffold the learning throughout the week.
• Buddies for those who need it or work with a friend for a bit
• Ensuring they know what they want to get better at and they can verbalise it clearly and confidently 

High alert for the children who cannot self manage - student is taken to Action Stations Board asked to hand over their name tag as they cannot make choices for their learning, name tag is put up high on the board. This is for a very short time and student is kept with teacher during targeted teaching groups. They must make a good choice for their learning before going back to stations.