Teach the Spirit of Teamwork
Working in a group environment often makes for fruitful learning experiences. Bands play together, athletes train together, and in classroom settings, students learn their lessons together. Utilizing a learning center in your class can go a long way towards encouraging students to help each other while enabling you to create smaller differentiated groups.
Using a classroom learning center creates opportunities for beginning readers to listen to an audio book that reinforces their literacy skills. Shares Christine Stodola, a Resource Specialist in Concord, CA: “We use our Spirit 1776 media player for Listening Center Activities where our K-5 students listen to recorded stories to enhance comprehension and fluency in reading.” Listening to the same storybooks or lessons, students can grasp the concept of teamwork when exercising their comprehension abilities and working through the same activities.
We use our Spirit 1776 media player for Listening Center Activities where our K-5 students listen to recorded stories to enhance comprehension and fluency in reading..
Melanie Clark, a library media specialist in Davidson County, TN expresses, “We wanted to incorporate learning centers in the classroom, and because we are a newer school, we had to start from scratch.” In addition to media players, learning centers can include a jackbox and number of headphones (3068AV) that can support a large number of students. With the Spirit™ learning centers, teachers could have anywhere from four to six or even ten students depending upon which stereo jackbox is included – a four or ten position. The Spirit comes equipped with a built-in microphone so students can record themselves while reading aloud and later play it back to check their progress.
The Spirit learning centers have been expanded to reflect changing demands for convenience and portability as they’re also available as audio pods (shown above), coming with either a tabletop or a rolling cart.
