Unlock the Secrets to a Successful Student-Centered Classroom

Outline

• **2 min.
Introduction: Session objective and the Why behind Student-Centered Learning.
• **3 min.
Guide participants in accessing their digital handbook and how personalize it and access and utilize the embedded resources.
• **5 min.
What is Student-Centered Learning?
o Participants share experiences and struggles, what they hope to take away from session.
o Overview key points that will be covered:
•  **10 min.
Student Empowerment: How to foster that in a class dictated by state/district curriculum guidelines.
o Participants explore digital examples and learn how to guide students to perform their own analysis of formative assessments for understanding during activities through journaling, reflections, and self-reporting checklists.
o Share how this self-reflection can be used as talking points during small group/individual conferencing and combined with the teacher analysis, will guide how instruction is targeted.
o Share how choice can be incorporated into lessons while still ensuring required learning objectives are met.
o Participants explore digital examples of self-checking and how it fosters student accountability and self-reliance.
o Address how AI tools can be used to guide learning and teach students how use them as a tool of support instead of a means to create products or solutions.
• **10 min.
Use Inquiry and conceptual learning to foster student-centered exploration.
o Share how to use scaffolding and guided activities when first using Inquiry or conceptual learning activities
o Share how to foster collaboration where everyone participates and relies on each other for solutions.
o Participants explore edtech tools resources to consider when creating activities.
o Share how to extend or remediate lessons to ensure mastery of content.
• **10 min.
Ensure student resources are accessible and develop classroom procedures that are ideal for supporting Student-Centered classroom.
o Discussion with participants on how to build community and setting classroom procedures.
o Share considerations for supplies available for daily access and specific tasks especially if students are completing different tasks at the same time so classrooms don’t become chaotic.
• **5-7 min.
Participant discussion and sharing
o Participants share and discuss the obstacles they think they will need to overcome and how can that be achieved.
 Obstacles are posted, groups discuss possible solutions and share ideas
• 3-5 min.
Closure
o Encourage participants to embrace the required mindset shift needed create a student-centered learning environment.
o Explain the difference between planning for learning and planning for teaching.
o Share “look-fors” to identify progress and success

Supporting research

• Productive struggle
Constructive struggle with guided questioning can help students persevere in problems solving and improve cognitive function.
https://ascd.org/el/articles/turning-teaching-upside-down

• Evidence for Student-Centered Learning
Schools need to be versatile, personalized, competency based, designed to allow for student ownership of learning, and support various learning activities. This learning format has shown in studies to show that non-selected students out perform their peers in traditional schools with similar populations.
From

• What is Student-Centered Learning?
Student-Centered Learning: In Principle and in Practice | Michigan Virtual
Student centered learning has four characteristics: Voice, choice, competency-based progression, and continuous monitoring of student needs, and it is an educational philosophy or approach to learning where student needs and interests drive instruction and even the operations and decision-making of a school or district.
https://michiganvirtual.org/research/publications/student-centered-learning-in-principle-and-in-practice/

• Addressing Faculty questions about Student-Centered Learning

Describes approaches schools and support staff may take to address questions and overcome reservations teachers may have in implementing Student-Centered learning including why a teacher might adopt this approach, how Student-Centered Learning is different from Blended Learning, and how research supports this instructional design model.

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