Task Rotation (A Strategic Teacher PLC Guide)

by Harvey F. Silver, Joyce W. Jackson, Daniel R. Moirao

Overview

One of the hardest jobs in teaching is to differentiate learning activities and assessments to your students' learning styles. But you and your colleagues can learn how to do this together when each of you has this guide to the Task Rotation strategy introduced in The Strategic Teacher. Use the guide in your Professional Learning Community to explore how Task Rotation enables you to scaffold student learning and conduct assessments that are appropriate to the four major learning styles: Mastery, Understanding, Self-Expressive, and Interpersonal. Activities from the guide help you and your colleagues

- Examine a range of teacher-designed Task Rotations.
- Experience model Task Rotations and learn from sample lessons and planning forms designed by other teachers.
- Design a Task Rotation for your own classroom.
- Examine student work at various levels of proficiency and use your findings to plan next steps.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781416611882
Publisher:	ASCD
Publication date:	04/15/2011
Pages:	98
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.40(d)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Section 1: Why Task Rotation?
Section 2: Planning a Task Rotation
Section 3: Evaluating the Lesson
Section 4: Learning from Student Work
Appendix A: Variations on a Theme: Five More Ways to Use Learning Styles to Differentiate Instruction and Assessment
Appendix B: The Assessment Menu
Appendix C: What Are the Habits of Mind?
References
About the Authors