Learning Center Franchise

Learning Center Franchise

Learning Center Franchise

Students enter the classroom with a great variety of needs. As Dr. Diane Heacox comments in her novel Differentiating Instruction in the Regular Classroom, students come to school with an array of strengths and weaknesses due to factors ranging from socioeconomic background to readiness factors (Heacox, 2002). Teachers face the challenge of differentiating their instruction to ensure that each individual pupil learns to the best of their ability. Centers are one critical tool teachers can use to do so.

The Case for Learning Centers Beyond Grade School

Those teaching higher grades may hear the term centers and think of playing blocks or tea party. In reality, centers are a useful classroom strategy for meeting student needs.

As Lynette Prevatte writes in her book Middle School Literacy Centers: Connecting Struggling Readers to Literature , "...centers allow students to move beyond the traditional instructional formats and each center can challenge students of varying grade levels and ability to engage in meaningful lessons that go far beyond what you can achieve in a whole class situation" (Prevatte, 2007). The benefits stretch far beyond the confines of elementary school instruction.