Middle School Co-taught Stations

Geri Pagel and Tami Williams (Barr Co-taught 8th grade Language Arts) consistently utilize the Station Teaching approach.  It works well for them and their students understand the process because of their consistency.

Yesterday, students were put into 3 stations.  One station dealt with Author's Purpose and the students had activities to do related to that concept.  Another station dealt with identifying nouns and coming up with adjectives to create more descriptive language (as that is the mode of writing they are working on).  The final station included students working on essays and then doing individual conferencing with one of the teachers, referencing the Descriptive Writing rubric and looking at strengths and weaknesses.

The first video shows Geri Pagel giving instructions on each station and then Tami following it up with repetition and visuals reinforcing the directions.  A great example of Duet Teaching.

The next video shows students working in the various stations and conferencing with the teachers about writing.