Often when I visit schools, teachers explain that they have too many students and don’t know how they can possibly do stations. Last week in Denver Public Schools (Denver, CO), I found folks that have overcome this issue at Valverde Elementary and Castro Elementary Look at how they’ve done it!
A kindergarten teacher took my advice, and cloned some stations. She has TWO listening stations, as pictured!
Listening station I
Listening station II
A first grade teacher has 35 plus students in one small classroom! He has some students sit at his small group teaching table; others sit at low tables (with table legs removed for the illusion of more space). There are no assigned seats. Here are some photos of his room (Those two adults you see are a student intern and his substitute for the day.)
35 kids in one classroom with tables for everyone!
Some kids use the guided reading table as their desk
Low tables create the feeling of more space
How have you solved similar problems in your classroom? Leave your ideas in the comments section!
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at the tables with legs removed, do students it on the floor? not sure how low they are when the legs are removed.
great idea!
When I had a super small classroom, I had some work stations that had baskets or tubs that were taken to student tables or corners of the room. This really helped with space.
Yes, Denise, kids do sit on the floor. They are happy to do so. These teachers had some portable stations in baskets as well as some stationary stations.