**CANCELED** Advancing Co-Teaching through Task Rotation:

**CANCELED**
Please note: This event will be rescheduled for a later date. 

 

Advancing Co-Teaching through Task Rotation:
Strategies for Differentiating Activities and
Assessments by Learning Style

Who should attend? Co-teacher teams, administrators, specialists, instructional coaches, para educators, any
combination of teacher teams. Co-teacher teams are strongly encouraged to attend together.
Advancing co-teaching for the student focuses on Task Rotation, a strategy that provides co-teachers with a manageable and highly
effective way to differentiate learning activities and formative assessments via learning styles. The strategy is designed around
research showing that students whose co-teachers incorporate a variety of learning styles into classroom activities routinely perform
better on objective tests and performance assessments than do students who receive “traditional” instruction. When using Task
Rotation, co-teachers present students with four interrelated tasks that ask them to use different styles of thinking:

Mastery tasks ask students to remember and describe
Understanding tasks ask students to reason and explain
Self-Expressive tasks ask students to imagine and create
Interpersonal tasks ask students to explore feelings and relate personally

Participants will:?

• Learn the four major learning styles and consider your own learning-style preferences.
• Examine a range of teacher-designed Task Rotations that show how the strategy can be used to scaffold student
• learning and conduct formative and summative assessments.
• Experience model Task Rotations and learn from sample lessons and planning forms designed by other teachers.
• Design a Task Rotation for your own classroom.

Presenter Martina Wagner, Ed.D:
Dr. Martina Wagner has served English Language learners for over twenty years in grades pre-K through adult education.
Her expertise includes best practice and programming for ELs, Sheltered Instruction, Co-teaching, Special Education
Identification of ELs, WIDA standards, and English Language Learning assessments and data. Martina’s background in
co-teaching spans from classroom to district implementation, professional development, instructional coaching, as well as
strategic district action planning and implementation. Martina has done extensive research throughout the United States on
co-teaching and currently serves public, private, and charter schools as a professional development consultant.
Registration

Registration Information:
$90 Metro ECSU Member; $180 Non-member
Checks should be made payable to Metro ECSU and mailed to:

Metro ECSU
Attn: Angela Skrade
2 P{ine Tree Drive, Suite 101
Arden Hills, MN 55112

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