Student Choice, Student Voice: Facilitating Self-Directed Learning
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Why do it?
Fits with the managing self in NZ Curriculum
Fits with school's vision and values
How to start?
Started small with just one aspect
Experimented with project based learning
Choice of elearning tool. Let them explore before
E.g. Movie Maker, Powe Point, Photo story
Get them to come up with Pros & Cons PMIS on them and revise their thinking
Flexibility with seating
Set up computer stations
Choice of learning in groups, as individuals, buddies
Product choices for technology (built in background knowledge
Used Jackie Sharp (writing guru) ideas:
Allowed a choice of tools
Where they wanted to write
How they wanted to draft
Giant sheets of paper
Laptops
Google docs
Recording your voice
Hard to manage so lots of different tick charts to manage so that everybody could have a fair turn on different device
Use Daily Five and adapt it:
Read to self
Read to someone
Work on words
Listen to reading
Work in writing (modified this to responding to reading)
Introduced choices in Inquiry Presentation methods:
Songs
Making models
Animation
Movies
Drama
Arranging the furniture
Kids arrange the furniture to how they want it
Used de bono thinking hats to reflect on it after 2 weeks. Yellow/Black
Choices about where to work and who to work with unless they weren't making any learning progress
Maths Menu
Learning objective
Entree (basic skills - compulsory
Main Meal ( must have 1)
Dessert (voluntary)
Children plan their own programme for the week
Must do's
Can do's
Let the kids have input into a inquiry Planning negotiate as to what they want to focus on
Reflecting buddy to reflect on for the week and set goals for the week ahead. Check out
The River of Learning video on Youtube
Goal Setting
Smart Goals format
Learning buddies each term
Learning Conversations
Self Assessment based in research skills for inquiry
Social Agency
How can I use my learning to make a difference for someone else.
All kids have their own display space and be reflective on what to put up
Self and peer assessment
SOLO taxonomy
Study ladder
Choice still needs to be scaffolded
You need to be highly organised
Some children don't cope well with choice. Can use Evernote for this
Take time to build skills
Give timelines and checkpoints
Check fir understanding
Students teach each other
Students teach teachers
Refine classroom spaces
Greater student involvement in assessment
Getting parents more involved
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