PTS Name: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning
Element: Promoting self-directed, reflective learning for all students
Indicators
As teachers develop, they may ask, “How do I…” or “Why do I…”
- Motivate students to initiate their own learning and to strive for challenging learning goals?
- Encourage all students to describe their own learning processes and progress?
- Explain clear learning goals for all students of each activity or lesson?
- Engage all students in opportunities to examine and evaluate their own work and to learn from the work of their peers?
- Help all students to develop and use strategies for knowing about, reflecting on, and monitoring their own learning?
- Help all students to develop and use strategies for accessing knowledge and information?
Descriptions
Examples may include, but are not limited to:
- Providing students with rubrics to compare the quality of their work against standards, and to determine next steps for improvement
- Providing students with regular opportunities to carefully review collected work and to analyze what that work indicates about their strengths and challenges as learners
- Helping students create individualized plans for how to best learn content
- Embedding within lessons opportunities to self-assess students’ via journals, blogs, and other
reflective writings
- Providing students with regular opportunities to process new learning with classmates through the use of peer review/coaching, etc.
Problems of Practice
Challenges with this element frequently include:
- Lessons are dominated by the teacher talk and thought is always the one to gauge students’ progress
- All decisions about student learning and student goals are made for them
- The teacher is the sole individual to provide feedback on student work