Middle school centers

Need more engagement from your middle school students? Try adding in one of these 3 ways to incorporate student choice into your classroom!

So you have finally decided to try out stations in your class. The problem is - you have NO idea how to begin. Rest easy because I'm about to give you all the tools you'll need to make stations a favorite in your classroom!

Ready to make math centers work in shorter middle school class periods? Get the details - structure, scheduling, activities, and more!

If you had asked me ten years ago if I would ever use literacy centers in middle school ELA, I would have replied, “I teach middle school, not kindergarten.” Today, however, literacy centers in middle school ELA are all the craze, so I wanted to figure out if there was a way I could use […]

I taught elementary before moving to middle school and loved math centers (also known as math workshop or math stations). I knew that I had to try implementing math centers in middle school when I moved up because I found that students were more engaged and loved the group work. Math centers helped

If I could teach with only one instructional strategy for the rest of my life, I would choose learning stations, and I’m saying this as a high school English teacher! Stations, or learning centers, have always…

I’ll admit, when I first began using stations the main reason was so I didn’t have to make copies for 200 students. The copy machines at my school were frequently broken, out of toner, and often inaccessible due to high need from other teachers and the lack of regular and predictable planning periods. If I wanted to make copies, I either had to get to school around seven or stay well after the final bell rang. Even then I might not be able to print what I needed for my students because the…

After part one of guided reading and small groups in middle school ELA, this post outlines what the other students are doing during this time

This single classroom procedure has made a HUGE difference in my experience teaching middle school. My first year teaching I didn't do this and I knew that something needed to change. I decided to put into a place a daily bellringer for every one of my classes. I am a Family Consumer Sciences teacher so I teacher 4 different classes!You can call it whatever you want to call it but I call it a bell ringer because my students are expected to be doing it as soon as the bell rings to start…

Do you use Math Stations in your classroom? Do you want to help your students review in a meaningful way? Do you want to engage your students in the Math content? I was hesitant at first when I started using Math Stations, but quickly found out how valuable they are! Math Stations (also called Math Workshops) is a system of different types of activities in the classroom for the students to complete based on the same topic. I have created the 6th Grade Math Stations BUNDLE to cover all of the…