Release March 16 and April 13 Kate Teeter

Another classroom that I really enjoyed completing my release hours in was Mrs. Teeter's second grade classroom. I found that I really like her classroom setup of group desk arrangements. I feel that at a young age and in the primary grades, students work and learn best when they are cooperatively learning. Another thing that I really liked about her classroom was her organization for stations. For each group of learners in stations, the students were separated based on ability level, but Mrs. Teeter had identified these leveled groups based on color.

For example, I worked with the red group of low level learners. This group consisted of two students with special needs and one at risk student. These students were very low readers, but they were a joy to work with for the fifteen minutes that I was able to work with them.

I believe in my future classroom when putting together collaborative groups, I will use this color system because I think it is something that the students like because colors are fun, but at the same time the students varying ability levels go unnoticed.