Allie Mayberger
Name
Center Stage: Mastering the Art of Effective Centers & Rotations (Pre-K)
Session Type
Workshop
Track
Pre-K / TK Experience
Description

Ready to bring excitement and structure to your classroom? During this session, teachers will learn the secrets to running effective, engaging centers and rotations that keep students ACTIVELY learning and on task. Teachers will discover how to set up purposeful, differentiated stations that support curriculum and build key skill sets across subject areas.

We will cover tips for managing transitions, keeping students accountable, balancing independent work and small-group instruction, differentiating tasks to meet diverse needs, and creative ideas to make learning rotations a seamless and POWERFUL part of daily instruction. Teachers will gain strategies for creating clear expectations and procedures that help students work independently, hands-on interactive activities to ensure collaboration skills, and a rotation practice that ensures every student benefits from the rotation model—making learning more personalized and effective.

After this session, teachers will have practical, ready-to-implement strategies to make center rotations more effective, engaging, and manageable. They'll gain the skills to maximize instructional time, differentiate instruction, and create a classroom environment that encourages both independent and collaborative learning!

Common Core Standards
Language and Literacy Development:
Exploring books, listening to stories, and engaging in literacy activities

Mathematics Development:
Manipulative centers, sorting, creating, and developing early number sense

Social-Emotional Development:
Dramatic play
Collaboration
Problem-solving
Communication skills
Session Research
Biffle, C. (2013). Whole Brain Teaching for Challenging Kids.

Biffle, C. 2015). Challenging Kids, Classroom Management, Writing, Reading, Math, 122 Games.

Diller, D. (2020). Simply Stations: Listening and Speaking.

Mackenzie, S. (2018). The Read Aloud Family.

Walther, M. (2018). The Ramped Up Read Aloud.