Task Rotation

Description

Teachers use the Task Rotation strategy when they want to provide students with opportunities to interact with content in ways that honor varying learning styles. A Task Rotation lesson consists of four tasks for students to complete. If appropriate, the teacher may also allow students to choose any number of the tasks presented.

• Mastery Task - Students are asked to recall information and describe it in a specific way.
• Understanding Task - Students are asked to demonstrate an understanding of the “why” behind the content, supported by evidence and reasoning.
• Self-Expressive Task - Students take what they know about the topic and create something.
• Interpersonal Task - Students are asked to explore how the content makes them feel and connect it to themselves personally.

Why it works...

Not only is it beneficial to provide students with choice when completing tasks, but providing tasks that speak to different learning styles also enables students to interact with content from different perspectives and using different types of thinking. Task Rotation also provides a diverse opportunity for motivation among students as they are likely to find at least one of the tasks more engaging than the others.

Tech integration...

Technology use for Task Rotation is entirely dependent on the tasks you choose to assign your students.