Learning+Stations

**Directions:** //As per your dossier, you will be responsible for compiling the information below about your inquiry strategy. Next week, you will provide a 5-7 minute overview of your strategy for the class.//

** Name and Description of your strategy (mention any variations of your strategy as well): ** ==== My strategy is learning stations (or otherwise known as learning centers). This strategy involves the setting up of multiple stations around a classroom, that are either permanent or temporary, with specific activities, materials, and directions that students then complete either as a group or individually. At the elementary level these stations are generally permanent and relate to skills like math and phonics. At the middle and secondary levels the use of learning stations is generally used for a particular unit and is temporary (utilizing packets or buckets of materials). ====

** Inquiry Process associated with your strategy: ** Most learning stations start with a general topic. This can be a unit or book that was covered in class or a general skill (like reading). Then at the station there are usually some questions in the directions to be thought about or questions to be generated by the student. Sometimes the students can start with questions they have before going to the learning stations. The variables are endless on how you could incorporate inquiry into learning stations- either through self selected or guided questions at different points of the process.

** Description of the Product or Products resulting from the inquiry process associated with your strategy: ** The products that student produce from learning stations can vary a great deal. In an English classroom the products are generally short response pieces, journal entries, or verbal presentations, but the products could be a drawing, a worksheet, a video, a wiki, etc.

** Descriptions of Examples and Links to examples when possible (when you include a link to an example, provide a brief annotation / description of the example -- not just a link): ** Most of the examples I found online dealt with elementary classrooms, but here are some that work with older students:

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** Resources consulted related to your strategy: **

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** 1-2 additional inquiry-based learning strategies you like (name and describe briefly): ** I think that multi-genre papers have great potential (I worked with them in a previous class). I would like to use multi-genre papers and projects to utilize student interests, expertises, and curriculum integration.