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  • Tropical Elementary School
  • Miami, FL
  • More than half of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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I believe that the way of teacher-led classrooms is long gone, and student-led discovery is the new way of facilitating learning within a classroom. One way of creating an optimal space for student-led learning is by creating multiple learning centers for students to benefit from. Learning centers are classroom areas that contain a collection of activities or materials designed to teach, reinforce, or extend a particular skill or concept. In my classroom, I aspire to have appropriate centers including a sensory center, a reading center, a whole-group center, a teacher-led center, a small group center, and an independent work center. The Six-Leaf Activity Table Table will be used as a whole-group center for the class. The indents in the table make it more accessible for wheelchair users as well as students who do not require a wheelchair. The Rectangle Activity Table will be used as an outside center table for when we are doing messy projects. The Space Alphabet Classroom Rug will be placed in the reading center to replace a rug that is borrowed from another classroom. It will be placed in the reading center. My learning centers will focus on important goals, promote individual growth towards these goals, include activities and materials that address varied reading levels and student interests, include activities that vary from simple to complex, concrete to abstract, structured to open-ended. I teach a self-contained unit, meaning I must make the best use of my classroom space in order to emphasize the importance of every subject area.

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I believe that the way of teacher-led classrooms is long gone, and student-led discovery is the new way of facilitating learning within a classroom. One way of creating an optimal space for student-led learning is by creating multiple learning centers for students to benefit from. Learning centers are classroom areas that contain a collection of activities or materials designed to teach, reinforce, or extend a particular skill or concept. In my classroom, I aspire to have appropriate centers including a sensory center, a reading center, a whole-group center, a teacher-led center, a small group center, and an independent work center. The Six-Leaf Activity Table Table will be used as a whole-group center for the class. The indents in the table make it more accessible for wheelchair users as well as students who do not require a wheelchair. The Rectangle Activity Table will be used as an outside center table for when we are doing messy projects. The Space Alphabet Classroom Rug will be placed in the reading center to replace a rug that is borrowed from another classroom. It will be placed in the reading center. My learning centers will focus on important goals, promote individual growth towards these goals, include activities and materials that address varied reading levels and student interests, include activities that vary from simple to complex, concrete to abstract, structured to open-ended. I teach a self-contained unit, meaning I must make the best use of my classroom space in order to emphasize the importance of every subject area.

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