Date: Thursday, October 20 Time: 7:00 pm ET
Student engagement is central to effective teaching and learning. Teachers often struggle to maintain student engagement which may result in low achievement and increased behavioral problems. An effective means of increasing engagement is to integrate choice into learning activities so that students can pursue their own interests and goals in the classroom. This requires teachers to build relationships of trust and understanding, inviting students to share their passions and intentions as part of the process of planning and preparing for engaging learning activities.
When teachers leverage student choice to promote intrinsic motivation and strengthen student engagement, teaching becomes more sustainable and joyful! Join this webinar to learn strategies to mindfully integrate student choice into teaching and learning from expert educators from Moreland University’s teacher-preparation program.
Kye points:
Learning with choice doesn't mean a free-for-all, it means a very structured way of allowing students to identify where in the leaning process they would like to exercise their authority as human beings, and how we are going to mindfully support them in that decision-making process.
Students do have chooses to develop a sense of responsibility and belonging.
For example,
1.Providing alternative seating options.
2.Developing a number of Standards aligned activity options for the class.
3. Using a very organized Timing System to keep students on track for the decision-making process and having that the routine that we plan.
Teacher need to know Where to sit choice and how to sit.
Understanding of which elements of the lesson are appropriate for choice and which elements really need to direct in terms of instruction to help the teachers who teach in subject areas have certain skill set and content knowledge, and disseminated as a part of instruction.
Teacher model clearly first, then gradual release of control. Give students choices when they are able to take and integrate that choices. For example, the Teacher model the instruction first, then let student to chose their favorite topic to write, but still follow the instruction.
Assessments: the teacher have to be constantly collecting data and choice. Pre-assessing students, then plan the data from it, then give a choice for the assessments with rubric.
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