Susan Fitzell - Educational Consultant and Speaker » flexible grouping http://hightestscores.org Practical Strategies for Co-taught, Inclusive, and Differentiated Classrooms! Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:04:45 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Jigsaw Learning http://hightestscores.org/2009/10/jigsaw-learning/ http://hightestscores.org/2009/10/jigsaw-learning/#comments Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:42:03 +0000 Susan Fitzell http://susanfitzell.edublogs.org/?p=197 I recently suggested that a colleague use a Jigsaw approach to cover reading material with his college students. After hearing about how successful the strategy was for him, I realized that the Jigsaw is one of those easy and effective teaching strategies that is also vastly under utilized.

While I do talk about the Jigsaw in some of my seminars, and I train the teachers I consult with to use it, I don’t talk about it in great detail. There are a variety of print and online resources that discuss this teaching strategy, but the clearest and most comprehensive, in my opinion, is The Jigsaw Classroom, a website devoted entirely to the use and implementation of the Jigsaw. Take a look and add this great strategy to your teaching tool box.

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]]> http://hightestscores.org/2009/10/jigsaw-learning/feed/ 0 What does Co-teaching, Personality Styles and Flexible Grouping have in common? http://hightestscores.org/2008/09/what-does-co-teaching-personality-styles-and-flexible-grouping-have-in-common/ http://hightestscores.org/2008/09/what-does-co-teaching-personality-styles-and-flexible-grouping-have-in-common/#comments Wed, 17 Sep 2008 01:38:18 +0000 Susan Fitzell http://susanfitzell.edublogs.org/?p=68 Peaceable Strategies for Grouping Students in the Inclusion Classroom BY Susan Heath, Kellie Wolfe, Linda Smith & Judy Burkett

Co-teaching, Personality Styles and Flexible Grouping were topics for seminars at Woodington Middle School

The teachers at Woodington Middle School in Kinston, NC. For the past two days, I’ve had the pleasure of working with dedicated teachers at Woodington Middle School. Their Principal, Diane Heath, is doing her best to support the teachers through their Inclusion and Co-teaching initiative.Yesterday, we covered co-teaching strategies and personality styles. Everyone dug right in and worked with the material finding ways to use the information in their classrooms. I love it when I have the opportunity to work with motivated teachers!Woodington Teachers devised a mnemonic to highlight the key components of managing behavior when working with small groups and flexible grouping. Donna Mills, Katherine Beamon, Karen McGlamery, Marianne Evangelista

Today, teachers got in three small groups to do an adapted jig saw about how to manage small groups and flexible groups in the classroom as well as how to develop and run Acceleration Centers TM to support varied levels of learners in the Inclusion classroom. It was so exciting to watch how the groups developed their teaching strategies and mind maps to teach the other groups about their section. See the pictures from the group!
 
 

 

 Acceleration Centers TM - Tips For Success by Deb Johnston, Jessica Jones, Barb Tribula, & Dianne With

 

 

 

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