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4th Grade Learning Centers
By Judy

Plan, plan, plan! If possible, find a colleague with whom you can share ideas, materials, and maybe even centers! ID the most important learning goal at each station and then design tasks for a variety of learning styles
to accomplish the goal. The tasks can reflect Bloom's Taxonomy (I use a wheel with the categories and behavioral tasks ready for the taking.) If there are 2 or 3 different tasks to choose in order to accomplish the same goal, you'd be doing great! (Use a tape recorder; Read with a partner; Read independently; Read with the teacher.) You could also use ideas about Multiple Intelligences

to help in the planning. That's very fun to consider. Start small. Think about how self-correcting can be used and how you might conference to get a feel for accomplishment and to know your students better. Have your students keep journals as the closure center, writing about the process, describing accomplishments during center time, and offering the students a chance to design a viable center. Comment back in writing.
There's so much more, but no more room. I hope this helps some...Judy