Professional Learning Opportunity:
Effective Literacy Workstations
This nine session course prepares K-2 teachers (and their coaches) to develop the routines and instructional practices that will maximize student learning during literacy centers or workstations.
Effective workstations empower students to learn independently while teachers provide targeted instruction. This 9-session course prepares educators to launch and manage independent and teacher-led literacy stations that enable targeted instruction while maximizing student engagement and accountability.
I’ve seen so much growth from my students, not only academically, but as far as like their independence and just their engagement…they are literally excited every day when we finish our workstations to show me what they worked on.
Deondre Moultrie
First Grade Teacher
Watkins Elementary School
Course Outline:
Nine sessions, paced before and during the school year. Each session is designed to take less than one hour.
To be completed before the start of the school year:
- Session 1 · Course Launch | Importance of Literacy Workstations
- Session 2 · Building Classroom Culture and Routines
- Session 3 · Launching Literacy Workstations
- Session 4 · Word Work Station
To be completed within the first two months after school has begun:
- Session 5 · Writing, Library, and Technology Stations
- Session 6 · Data and Grouping
- Session 7 · The Teacher-Led Small Group Station
- Session 8 · Honing Your Practice
- Session 9 · Wrap Up: How has your focus changed?
This course supports teachers to:
- Build a classroom culture of student independence and ownership
- Design & launch word work, writing, library, and technology stations
- Group students using data
- Lead effective small group instruction
- Anticipate and troubleshoot challenges
Also available:
Effective Literacy Workstations Course
FOR COACHES
SERP offers a version of this course with additional resources for instructional coaches. A digital Coaching Guide is included with a coach license. A coach license also provides access to the same nine-session course as the teacher license.
The workstations course was an extremely valuable resource. The content was really easy to implement and the videos were engaging, focused, and applicable to our district-wide focus regarding the science of reading.
Kathryn Kayne
Instructional Coach
Watkins Elementary School
Companion Product:
Word Work Station Kits
As a complement to this course, a set of activities were developed that can be used for the word work station in kindergarten, 1st, and 2nd grades. Word work is the workstation that is most demanding for teachers to plan, especially if the work is differentiated, which is best practice for supporting maximum student progress. The materials are explained in an optional section in Session 4 of the course. The materials can be purchased through SERP. While developed to directly complement the course, they are not necessary to complete the course.
