Student Voice
Discover how students’ input and expertise can help shape their classroom, their school, and ultimately their own learning and growth.
What to Do When Students Find an Assignment Boring
If an assignment isn’t winning elementary students over, ask them to figure out how to make it more meaningful to them.How to Incorporate Student Feedback to Improve SEL
Meaningful input and active engagement from high school students can transform a school’s approach to social and emotional learning.169Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Guiding Students to Lead Opening and Closing Activities
When high school students lead parts of a lesson, they build a strong sense of ownership of their classroom.363Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How Celebrating Academic Progress Builds Motivation
When teachers acknowledge the learning journey, they help students gain confidence and develop ownership over their growth—and build a culture of support in the classroom.Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How to Engage Students the Moment They Enter the Classroom
Openers matter and set the tone for the lesson that follows. Here’s how to start strong when you need to.10.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Create Opportunities for Authentic Student Participation in IEP Meetings
Through intentional collaboration, special education teachers and their students can prepare for IEP meetings that honor students’ voice and input.214Your content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.Empowering Pre-K Students Through Project-Based Learning
Young students can build agency and independence when given the opportunity to make decisions throughout the PBL process.Creating a Classroom That Is Student, not Teacher, Driven
Teachers can take a step back and create lessons that put student explorations at the center of learning.8.6kYour content has been saved!
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Student-Centered Learning: It Starts With the Teacher
Teachers encourage student-centered learning by allowing students to share in decisions, believing in their capacity to lead, and remembering how it feels to learn.24.4kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.60-Second Strategy: The Hot Seat
Providing the active listeners in the outer ring of a Socratic circle a way to jump in with their burning questions and comments keeps all students engaged.Reading the Virtual Classroom Is Hard, but It Can Be Done
Many teachers find it difficult to gauge how well students understand a lesson in an online classroom. A technique common among award-winning online instructors should help.11.2kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.3 Ways to Support Academic Talk Among Students
By providing opportunities for students to share ideas with each other, teachers create space for them to develop social skills, retain more content, and deepen understanding of the material.3 Activities to Support Student Voice in Math
Discussing problem-solving techniques and famous mathematicians helps elementary students learn math concepts.235Your content has been saved!
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6 Opening and Closing Routines for New Teachers
Check for understanding, manage your students, and build classroom community with these six opening and closing classroom routines.17.8kYour content has been saved!
Go to My Saved Content.How—and Why—to Introduce Visual Note-Taking to Your Students
Visual note-taking allows information to be processed by the brain in three different ways.7.3kYour content has been saved!
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