3 Station Rotation that starts with whole class direct instruction

This post is a minor tweak to my previous post on the 3 station rotation, and the final post in this 4 part series in station rotation.

--> See the two station rotation and the two station rotation with teacher check in as the background to this post.

The only difference in this model is that the class period would start with whole-class direct instruction, and then segue into the rotations stations. 

If you currently spend a large chunk of class time lecturing and going over practice examples, this might be an ideal first step into the station rotation model.  

How it works:
In a 90 minute block, this would translate to 15 minutes for direct instruction, 15 minute stations each, and then 30 minutes total at the front and back end for warm ups, recap, and clean up.

Start by streamlining your instruction to be 15 minutes or less, and just content.  Minimize the Q&A time because this will come out in the stations. Then, push the practice and examples to the stations.  As I described in the previous post, you as the teacher can be in one of those stations doing the practice with student and giving them more personalized formative feedback.  Here you can reteach as needed. 

The other stations allow students to engage with the content in other ways (individually and collaboratively, online vs. offline, speaking/listening and writing, etc.).  See my examples in the previous posts for ideas of what you could do, and subject specific examples.