Tabor Rotation
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Tabor Rotation is a differentiated, instructional strategy for teaching mathematics at the K-12 and Middle School levels. Tabor rotation uses small heterogeneous, collaborative,student-led groups rotating through learning stations. This is done several times a week. A week of Tabor Rotation also includes whole-group mini-lessons, robust vocabulary development, readiness grouping, and journal writing.
Tabor Rotation is intended to optimize the student-teacher ratio and utilize collaborative and cooperative learning. It naturally and purposefully differentiates instruction while various learning styles and addressing multiple intelligences. A key to Tabor Rotation's effectiveness is that it spirals a concept through multiple stations and reviews it periodically when a game or activity is cycled back into the rotation or into whole-group mini-lessons.
Glenna W. Tabor, M.Ed. (Regent University), the creator of Tabor Rotation, has served as a Professional Development Institute staff trainer for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
and as a mathematics consultant for Insight, a division of McGraw-Hill. She has served as a member of the facility of Regent University in Virginia and has instructed graduate courses on Curriculum Development, Assessment Theory, and Effective Mathematics
and Reading
Instruction.
Tabor Rotation is intended to optimize the student-teacher ratio and utilize collaborative and cooperative learning. It naturally and purposefully differentiates instruction while various learning styles and addressing multiple intelligences. A key to Tabor Rotation's effectiveness is that it spirals a concept through multiple stations and reviews it periodically when a game or activity is cycled back into the rotation or into whole-group mini-lessons.
Glenna W. Tabor, M.Ed. (Regent University), the creator of Tabor Rotation, has served as a Professional Development Institute staff trainer for the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development
The Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development, or ASCD, is a membership-based nonprofit organization founded in 1943. It has more than 175,000 members from over 100 countries, including superintendents, principals, teachers, professors of education, and other educators...
and as a mathematics consultant for Insight, a division of McGraw-Hill. She has served as a member of the facility of Regent University in Virginia and has instructed graduate courses on Curriculum Development, Assessment Theory, and Effective Mathematics
Mathematics
Mathematics is the study of quantity, space, structure, and change. Mathematicians seek out patterns and formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proofs, which are arguments sufficient to convince other mathematicians of their validity...
and Reading
Reading (process)
Reading is a complex cognitive process of decoding symbols for the intention of constructing or deriving meaning . It is a means of language acquisition, of communication, and of sharing information and ideas...
Instruction.