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| "Start by starting." Meryl Streep. |
| STUDENT-DIRECTED TEACHING |
Student-Directed Teaching is when the student takes ownership over how they learn. They decide how they want to go about finding the answers: ask another student, look in a book, go on the computer, ask a teacher, etc. To demonstrate their knowledge, they can write a report, create a picture, do a skit, write a poem, film a video project, etc.
The students are guided towards what they are expected to know, but the students get to choose how they find the knowledge. They choose how they learn and how they show their work. The teacher becomes a resource rather than a manager.
With Student-Directed Teaching, the students make choices about how they learn best: the teacher’s role is to hold them accountable for those choices. The choice is never not to work, the choice is how the student wants to work.
The result is a less stressful environment for students and teachers. The students have a variety of ways to show their work and engage further into their studies. Each student is aware of the class schedule and understands exactly what they must accomplish before the class even begins.
Students working under Student-Directed Teaching are given the opportunity to learn how they learn best. Students can choose the learning style which enables them to have success in their learning, whether that be learning from the teacher, listening to the teaching and choosing an assignment, working on their own, keeping up with a partner or creating a contract to complete the required work.
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