moving beyond single level, single year, single dimensional teaching.
Project CHILD is a unique instructional delivery model which provides triangulated learning to bring the Florida Sunshine State Standards to life for your student:
Children learn at various work stations that appeal to different learning styles, including hands-on activities, use of technology, traditional pencil-and-paper practice, as well as large and small group and individual teacher-directed instruction.
Three classrooms of students and three teachers are identified as a cluster:
Primary Clusters include one each of kindergarten, first and second grades.
Intermediate Clusters include one each of grades 3-5.
Each teacher within a cluster is the specialty teacher for reading, writing or mathematics.
Social Studies and Science are taught within the reading, writing and mathematics blocks.
Students rotate every 90 minutes to their next cluster teacher.
This approach allows teachers to specialize in a single core subject area and work with the same children for three years.
Students utilize a Passport as both an organizational and communication tool.
Project CHILD Overview
Changing How Instruction for Learning is Delivered
Engages students in hands-on station activites and Integrates Technology into the classroom
Engaged Time-on-Task Classroom Management System
Passports
Task Cards
Daily Station Assignment Board
Students use CHILD Passports each day to guide independent movement to stations.
Passports contain:
Student goals
Record of learning objectives
Student comments
Self-assessment
Parent page
Station activities are clearly defined, aligned with standards, and appropriate to students’ abilities and needs.
Task cards include:
Activity Name
Learning Objective
Easy-to-follow instructions
"What to do when finished..."
Leveled learning
Challenge activities
Teachers designate where students begin working each day. The Daily Station Assignment Board: Increases Time on Task Promotes Small Group Independent Learning Provides activities to level for remediation and enrichment Meets individual needs of students by differentiating instruction at the Teacher Station.
A triangulated teaching model
3 teacher cluster teams
3 grade levels
3 ninety minute classroom rotations
3 types of learning stations
Technology
Hands-on
Paper/Pencil (Text/written)
What does a CHILD classroom look like?
ɤ 6 stations to accommodate multiple ways of learning a particular skill or concept.
ɤ Computer Station for technology based learning.
ɤ Textbook Station for written work.
ɤ Challenge Station for activities in a game-like format.
ɤ Teacher Station for small group leveled instruction.
The Reading Classroom
ɤ Word Study Station for hands-on activities. ɤ Reading and Listening Station for independent reading.
