Student Centered Practices
Ways I Teach my Students Responsibility:
Ways I Teach my Students Responsibility:
- Allow all students to have a jobs in the classroom
- Provide group projects where all students are involved in each part
- Each week, at book club meetings, a new leader is choose that runs the discussion in the next week
- Allow students to tutor or help others in an areas where they are experts
- Teach digital citizenship and online etiquette
- Use I-messages to solve conflicts
- Encourage students to have academic, work study, and social skills goals
- Student led conferences in December and March
Ways my Students are Involved in Decision Making:
Ways my Students are Involved in Decision Making:
- Involve students in creating class rules and consequences
- Allow students to have choices in what they can do for a summative assessment (see example below)
- Provide opportunities for them to learn about a topic that interests them through an independent study
- Involve students in solving problems in the classroom, rather than solving myself
- Involve students in deciding on classroom environment and layout
- Allow students to make choices on where they sit
- Social skills lessons: peer pressure, ethical situations, etc.
- Classroom economy system teaches students how to decisions regarding money, purchasing, etc.
Example of a Choice Board of Activities for the novel, Esperanza Rising, that students can choose from.