Voice, Choice, Agency and Engagement

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6 Ways Teachers Continue to Promote Student Voice This YearIn distance and hybrid learning, elementary teachers are finding it more important than ever to build lessons centered on students’ active involvement.

A Way to Promote Student Voice—LiterallyA second-grade teacher who knew her students had something to say to the world gave them the tools they needed to create a podcast.

Using Social Justice to Promote Student VoicePreteen students can gain confidence in their ability to navigate complex topics by using intersectionality to investigate social issues.

A classroom culture that values authentic student voice and inquiry sets the foundation for deeper learning. This article goes deeper into these ideas and more.

Good questions can engage, motivate, and connect students to the world and to their work. Here, teachers discuss compelling questions that they use to improve engagement in their classrooms.

Lowering student perceptions of helplessness and increasing their sense of agency is the goal of these 10 tips and discussion by Tom Vander Ark.

The Quaglia Institute designs PD and tools for schools to use to improve the power of student and parent voice.

Explore the intersection between deep learning and engagement in this article. Nice three-level intersectionary grid included!

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Jennifer Gonzalez at the Cult of Pedagogy compiles this excellent list of ways to structure classroom discussions. Structured discussion allows all students voices to be heard.

Here, you can get some practical tips for growing student voice and agency in the elementary setting through morning meetings and classroom conversations.

From U of M's, engineering department, these 6 types of Socratic Questions can help teachers turn the conversation back to the students, allowing their thinking to drive classroom discussions.

These 10 design qualities for engagement from the Schlecty Center can be used to enrich currently existing work.

Five cooperative learning strategies described here by Kagan PD can be used to improve engagement in classroom discussion.

Here you can find links to online tools for increasing engagement and voice in the classroom.

These questions for students can give valuable insights into classroom engagement and can increase student voice when discussed with classes.

This toolkit contains activities and discussion topics designed for professional development of teachers around improving student motivation, engagement, and voice.