Description
A centers approach to teaching offers gifted students autonomy, choice, and differentiation in ways that challenge and stretch them individually. In this course, Erin Muck shares how she uses a centers approach in her language arts classroom with the goal of helping you make it work in your classroom.
The centers approach Ms. Muck uses and developed herself is called “The READ System.” She will walk you through the following:
- The power and advantages of using centers in your classroom
- Examples of what centers might look like in your classroom
- The specific benefits of using centers with your gifted students
She covers classroom setup, classroom organization, and demonstrates stations in action.
This course meets National Association for Gifted Children Teacher Preparation Standards 1.2, 2.1, and 2.1, as well as Ohio Department of Education competencies a, b, and c.
Click here for a leader’s guide created by the Ohio Association for the Gifted and Talented.
Katina – River View Local Schools (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Anna – Bexley City Schools (verified owner) –
This is not beneficial for a high school, AP classroom. This seem more applicable and helpful for younger students.
Michelle – Bexley City Schools (verified owner) –
BHS does not have the resources for this type of collaboration.
Florinda – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent course. Liked the examples of things she does in her class.
Melissa – FRENSHIP ISD (verified owner) –
The speaker is very knowledgeable about creating and differentiating curriculum with the use of centers.
Beatriz – LAREDO ISD (verified owner) –
It is an awesome course that could help us to set up centers, classroom organization, and provide us with excellent ideas to help our students to be independent.
Gary – Los Angeles Unified School District (verified owner) –
This course was very interesting and it had some strategies that I can use in my classroom.
Dayna – Los Angeles Unified School District (verified owner) –
I enjoyed watching the instructer demonstate the READ method. She really sparked my interest in learning more about this method.
Mary – HARMONY SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE – HOUSTON NORTH DISTRICT (verified owner) –
Definitely worth checking out for the lower grades.
Taylor – LANCASTER CITY (verified owner) –
I appreciated the information regarding classroom setup and organization. The images were helpful.
Felicia – DUNCANVILLE ISD (verified owner) –
This is a good course to help you to think of a way to organize your stations each week.
Jilma – ALICE ISD (verified owner) –
Very knowledge presenter
susan – REYNOLDSBURG CITY (verified owner) –
Great ideas with many variations to find something that works for you
Ruth – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
Great ideas!
Jessica – Defiance City Schools (verified owner) –
The content and presentation of the course itself was good. However, it was labeled as a course for Elementary. I teach first grade, so this system as described won’t work for me. However, I am thinking about how I could implement some of these ideas and adapt them to work for my first graders.
Jackema – MIDLOTHIAN ISD (verified owner) –
Informative
Ramona – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course gave a different way to do center time.
Sonia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great info on stations.
Elizabeth – Ashtabula Area City Schools (verified owner) –
This is a good course for how to incorporate centers into older grades.
Francisco – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Great course.
Roxanna – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
great ideas
Brenda – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Great idea for incorporating centers in your classroom which allow students choice in instruction and activities.
Sylvia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
it was easy to follow
Sylvia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a great course. It is a lot to take in though.
alicia – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I would like to have seen the training directed more to differentiating in the lower grades.
Shelly – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Good suggestions and great organization
Erica – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This course has Great ideas to help with stations and giving students choices using the curriculum.
Raquel – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I thought this was a very beneficial course for the regular and GT student. I loved that it was very explicit in the formation of understanding what READ was.
Eugenio – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
It was an eye opener to do the centers this way.
Elizabeth – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Excellent
Valarie – COLUMBUS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (verified owner) –
I really liked READ. It is an interesting concept.
Laura – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
An amazing presentation that will help me improve my centers.
Jennifer – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
Interesting way to try to incorporate centers in your classroom.
Jarod – SCHERTZ-CIBOLO-U CITY ISD (verified owner) –
Course was well laid out. I liked how students had a format from beginning to end. They always know what was coming next.
zoraida – EDINBURG CISD (verified owner) –
Good READ idea and rotaions
Catalina – ECTOR COUNTY ISD (verified owner) –
This course was relevant to classroom instruction and a reminder that centers provide much more than practice and refinement of skills.
Rachel – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
I like all the stations that were presented.
Cynthia – Ashtabula Area City Schools (verified owner) –
Great way to give your students ownership of learning.
Corina – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
This is a good refresher on how to apply learning in different strategies.
Maria – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
The presenter presented the READ rotations very well.
Brenda – HERTFORD COUNTY SCHOOLS (verified owner) –
Great course
Marlene – CORPUS CHRISTI ISD (verified owner) –
I like the idea in theory, but she did not really elaborate on all of the setup and preparations for each station – where did she get all of her materials? What is the time commitment for preparing each one? It seems like there were multiple components to each station. Buying all of those from TPT can quickly become cost prohibitive for many teachers.
Douglas – RIPLEY-UNION-LEWIS-HUNTINGTON LOCAL (verified owner) –
I think it’s fine, but geared to lower levels than what I teach.
Kim – WESTERVILLE CITY (verified owner) –
Easy suggestions for implementing language based centers
Anna – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Totally agree with allowing students to be responsible and challenged during READ rotation!
Ileana – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
I loved her station ideas and that she included her classroom layout.
Elizabeth – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent and very informative course.
Angela – UNITED ISD (verified owner) –
This course was great!
Jennifer – WESLACO ISD (verified owner) –
It was great, to the point, and easy to understand.
Jacqueline – MCALLEN ISD (verified owner) –
Excellent seminar with practical and easy strategies to set up in the classroom.