Here at Teach On A Mission and the Sustainable Teacher, we believe that building a sustainable classroom includes a very important player… which is, your students. Empowering your students as learners is one of the most sustaining strategies you can implement in your classroom.
And that is what today’s episode is all about, empowering students in the reflection process, showing you exactly what student reflection can look like, giving you practical strategies to get your students doing some meaningful reflection tomorrow.
Because you know the value of hard work in the learning process, you understand the connection between effortful processing and performance on assessments, you understand the value in engaging in your classroom.
Students don’t always see that, you know this. You also know that telling them the value in all of these things isn’t going to do it for many of them.
Enter stage left, reflection that helps students make the effort-to-performance connection. Now it’s not going to solve world hunger or all the issues in your classroom. But it will certainly serve many of your students in ways that help them own their learning and take initiative to engage and work hard in the learning process you lay out for them.
And that is my hope for you in today’s episode, teacher friend.
I should mention that this episode is part one in a two part series. In this episode, we’ll focus on the when and what of student reflection, what it looks like to actually empower your students through reflection. And next week, we’ll talk about the how - what it actually looks like to get students reflecting and how it can serve and empower them.
So let’s get to it.
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