This is fourth grade! We were required to have literacy stations
the second week of school-we have a new literacy coach this year.
No time was set aside to train the students.

Two of three students that I am having issues with are identified
SLD. One also has a BIP. He sees the behavior coach once a week,
I have no idea what she does with him, but I have not seen any
positive changes since she began pulling him.

I give my students very a very detailed set of instruction on
color paper to match the color of the group they are in. I am
using station activities that were suggested to me by the literacy
coach. It isn't that the work is too hard, it is that these three
students are not self-motivated and need to have someone
constantly at their side in order to get their work done. If I
continually spend my energy on them I am neglecting the other 14
students in my class.

I would love to have the luxury of not having small group until
after the first nine weeks so that I could monitor and train the
students for stations. I just don't see that happening with our
current coach.

On 11/03/09, tarheelcoach wrote:
> What grade is this?
>
> Students have to be trained to work in the centers. I never
> really got my centers going until the end of the 1st marking
> period - it took that long to get the students to the point
> where they could be successful working in the centers. That
> was fifth grade.
>
> That said, my school doesn't require teachers to be a slave to
> the HM program - teachers are free to adjust the program to fit
> the needs of their students. If your students aren't being
> successful, ask for help from your instructional coach and your
> administrators. If they can't help you find a way to make the
> centers work, find that something that will work.

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