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“Teachers empower students to make decisions about how, when, and with whom they work. . . . Presenting students with expectations and options, but allowing them to make decisions empowers them to take responsibility for their own learning.” — Dr. Nancy Sulla, 2011
“Teachers empower students to make decisions about how, when, and with whom they work. . . . Presenting students with expectations and options, but allowing them to make decisions empowers them to take responsibility for their own learning.” — Dr. Nancy Sulla, 2011
Physical Structures:
Physical Structures:
Student Responsibility Boards increase self-management and relationship skills while providing students with needed support. See your consultant for visual examples and suggestions.
Resource Area - is a designated, physical structure in the classroom for student access. See your consultant for additional visual examples and suggestions.
Elementary Sample: How I Can Help!
Student Learning Dashboard
Students can use learning dashboards with standards and curricular objectives to track their progress across the year, using the data to select learning activities. Like a car dashboard, a learning dashboard offers students and teachers an up-to-date snapshot of progress.
This sample dashboard lists discrete skills from curricular standards and allows the teacher or student to designate if a student is "Just Learning," "Practicing," or at the "I Got This!" stage.
Excel Version (make a copy to edit)
Google Sheets Sample (make a copy to edit)
When students use how-to sheets to follow directions and multiple steps (Engagement), they are also catching and correcting errors (Empowerment) , self-assessing (Empowerment), and monitoring progress (Empowerment) toward their goal. See some sample how-to sheets below and brainstorm for what topic(s) you can use how-to sheets. Consider these additional tools for Providing Students with Direction for Learning with Video and Tips for Creating How-To Sheets.
How to Form the Conditional Tense for Regular Verbs in Spanish
Check out the Directions and Instructional video examples from this blog: Five Types of Videos Teachers Can Use to Enhance Learning!
Time Management
Time Management
Levels to Students Scheduling Their Time - The executive function skill of managing time, if mastered during school, can not only improve students' academic productivity, but can significantly improve students' college, career, and life pursuits. In order for students to successfully manage and schedule their time, you must first have an instructional environment that empowers students to make choices about their learning and that provides them with the opportunity to manage their time.
Self-Assessing and Goal setting
Self-Assessing and Goal setting
During test prep, students must be able to set specific, measurable goals. The following resources can support them in setting goals.
Executive Function: Planning and Goal Setting- This tool is intended for students identified as needing support in the area of planning and goal-setting
Goal Setting and Reflection- Use this document to help students set goals for each test prep day, and monitor their progress toward achieving those goals.
Executive Function Tool: Goal Setting and Reflection- Use this tool to help students reflect on their progress throughout your test prep unit.
Reflect:
How can any of these resources be partnered with a Great Student Rubric or row?
Example: Aligning the goals with a Perseverance row or Productivity row for self-assessing
Great Student Rubric - can support the executive function skills of conscious control AND the SEL competency of self-awareness by setting clear expectations. Consider using rubrics to outline what a “great student” looks like and have students self-assess on it periodically.
Consider what a Great Athlete, Great Musician, or Great Artist would look like.
*See the Conscious Control Page for additional examples, including for ELLs/ENLs
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