What Do Students Want To Learn
STUDENT-DRIVEN LEARNING
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If you want to increase engagement, watch what happens when you let students suggest what they want to learn. Empowering students to follow a passion and potentially teach it to someone else dramatically shifts your learning culture. Start small by asking a single student what they want to learn and support them in that learning journey by focussing on the competencies not the content.
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How often does your school give students the chance to identify and pursue what they want to learn? How much priority should this get?
What steps might you take in your context to give students the opportunity to communicate their interests?
How might you incorporate what students want to learn into your own lessons and curriculum? To what extent could you modify your plans to encourage and satisfy student curiosity?
How might you help a student who initially can’t come up with anything they want to learn? Almost certainly, this student was bursting with curiosity as a toddler. Where did that go?
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