Using Targeted Small Group Instruction and Station Rotation as a Review Strategy

Submitted by Kristen Kirkpatrick 
College Algebra & Algebra 2, Chesapeake High School

I wanted to use targeted small group instruction to ensure that students mastered each of the objectives prior to their unit assessment. However, I had students in many different places. Some did their Homework and some did not, some knew how to study while others were lacking in study skills.
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So I planned a station rotation with each station addressing various learning modalities. I freed myself up for one on one conferences at a station, which could include direct instruction, Q&A, or a conversation about missing assignments. 

Since my students were in so many different places, they had a choice as to which station to go to, though I didn’t want student’s station hopping so I set the parameters of 5 stations and 15 minutes per station. 

The Homework assignment was integral to practice for the assessment, so I required students to go that station. If they did their Homework, it was a check, if they didn’t they still needed the material, I could address homework in the check in at station 6.
 
Here are pictures of the classroom setup… I am in the back pulling students for “check in”: