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STUDENT OWNERSHIP
- Guide students through the process of reflection.
- Provide individual feedback so that students can progress monitor & build relationships with teachers.
- Experiment with allowing students some choice in selection of time, pace, path & place.
- Read the Article "5 Tips for Infusing Student Reflection into Blended Classrooms".
- Check for understanding (and compete with your friends) at this Quizziz!
- Discussion:
- .... the most successful personalized classrooms have a culture of student ownership that comes from scaffolded, regular, and supported student reflection. Is student reflection a part of your classroom?
- What are some ways you already have students track their progress (or would like to try)?
- Reflection:
- What did you learn today that you would like to try in your room?
Read the article, "Three Ways to Promote Student Ownership of Reading" before coming to your PLC time. Be prepared to share with the group how you use, or want to sue, the three points below:
- Providing choice to promote student ownership
- Providing different ways for students to demonstrate they have done the reading
- Capture key contributions in post-discussion summary
How can this article apply to math? Science? Social Studies?
(You will need 5 index cards per teacher)
- Read the article, "25 Self-Reflection Questions to Get Students Thinking About Their Learning."
- Without sharing, pick the top five questions you might use in your room. Put the question number and your initials on an index card.
- When everyone is finished, place the cards in numerical order.
- Did anyone choose the same questions? Tell why you chose that questions.
- Take your index cards back and adjust your choices if you wish.
- On the back of your index cards, re-write your questions to reflect your students' ages, etc.
- When finished, share with the group.
This EdTechTeam blog looks at feedback from a different angle:
Feedback goes beyond a summative or formative academic accounting of what students learn. Part of what we do as educators is to encourage students to grow and be better. The article observes that “employees who effectively solicit feedback from management, and implement that criticism wisely, inevitably end up becoming the top performers in their fields.” Don’t we want this for all of our students?
Read through the 3 suggestions for students initiating feedback at the bottom of the article.
- How do you currently get student feedback?
- How could you use the suggestions in this article to improve how students can solicit and use feedback?
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