At @EHSFrisco you can see our @EmersonPals use this. In our most recent project, students are creating a product to be used to educate the school during Red Ribbon Week in future years. Students CHOOSE what they cover and how they do it. They have VOICE in future improvement.
What can it FEEL like?
- Freedom for students
- Freedom for teachers
- Community in the classroom
- Opportunity for higher-level thinking within collaboration
- Confidence in student engagement, collaboration, ownership, and more!
What can it LOOK like?
- Student discourse
- Google form feedback
- Teacher Check-Ins
- Rubrics
- Choice Boards
- Varied assessment types
- Pathways for mastery
What can it SOUND like?
- Students collaborating on ways to improve
- Peer to peer feedback
- Student to teacher feedback
- Teacher to student feedback
- Students creating what they want assignments to look like
- Culture of “freedom to fail”
You are 50% of every interaction you have with another person. You can always make sure at least half the conversation is positive, peaceful, and productive.
Education is often focused on planning lessons, covering curriculum, assessing learning, and rightly so.
But we should be equally committed to relating to our students, caring for their hearts, and nurturing their strengths.
Students are naturally motivated by an idea or concept they care about. Now is the time to support independence and creativity by assigning projects that allow students to choose content that interests them. ow.ly/DiDg50zgsP8
On a webinar learning about emergency education funding due to COVID-19 & was just reminded that 22 MILLION students nationwide depend on school for two of their three meals a day. Let's keep that in mind when we decide what to prioritize in our current landscape.
Seeing many posts about how teachers shouldn't be grading work/learning during eLearning time. Many cite access and equity as primary reasons. My question is, why is it ok to assign and grade work done at home during normal school time? Access and equity remain an issue.