Task Rotation: Strategies for Differentiating Activities and Assessments by Learning Style (A Strategic Teacher PLC Guide) - Softcover

Harvey F. Silver (author)|Joyce W. Jackson (author)|Daniel R. Moirao (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1416611886 ISBN 13: 9781416611882

Publisher: ASCD, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Designed in partnership with more than 75 schools, Strategic Teacher PLC Guides make the important work of bringing high-impact, research-based instructional practices into every classroom easier than ever before. Each guide focuses on one strategy from the best-selling ASCD book The Strategic Teacher: Selecting the Right Research-Based Strategy for Every Lesson and serves as a complete professional development resource for a team of teachers (or professional learning community) to learn, plan, and implement the strategy in their classrooms.

This guide focuses on Task Rotation, a strategy that provides teachers with a manageable and highly effective way to differentiate learning activities and formative assessments via learning styles. The strategy is designed around research showing that students whose teachers incorporate a variety of learning styles into classroom activities routinely perform better on objective tests and performance assessments than do students who receive "traditional" instruction. When using Task Rotation, teachers present students with four interrelated tasks that ask them to use different styles of thinking:

* Mastery tasks ask students to remember and describe.

* Understanding tasks ask students to reason and explain.

* Self-Expressive tasks ask students to imagine and create.

* Interpersonal tasks ask students to explore feelings and relate personally.

Edition details

• Publisher: ASCD
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416611886
• ISBN 13: 9781416611882
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98