Standard One: Engaging and Supporting All Students in Learning

1.3 Facilitating learning experiences that promote autonomy, interaction, and choice.

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Description of Practice

Experienced Practice that Exemplifies the Standard

Learning experiences are facilitated by the teacher and students to promote and support a variety of constructive interactions autonomy, and choice in the pursuit of significant learning.

Maturing Beginning Practice

Learning experiences are facilitated by the teacher to promote constructive interactions, autonomy, and choice, and to encourage and support student involvement in learning.

Developing Beginning Practice

Learning experiences are directed by the teacher and allow limited student autonomy, interaction, and choice.

Practice Not Consistent With Standard Expectations

Learning experiences are directed by the teacher, permitting no student autonomy, interaction, or choice.

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What the classroom looks like

• Works with individual students or small groups
• Involves students in inventing routines, structures, classroom rules
• Provides a variety of accessible materials and/or activities
• Works to develop each student's willingness and ability to work independently and with others
• Provides opportunities for students to develop and explore his/her own ideas and experiences
• Provides opportunities for students to develop and internalize criteria by which they make decisions about their own learning
• Allows for students take turns, build on each other's ideas
• Models constructive interaction
• Provides norms and structures
• Students are not overwhelmed or confused by too many choices
• Structures the process of choosing so that students have opportunities to exercise informed judgment to build their sense of efficacy and independence
• Goals and structures are aimed at helping students manage time, materials, and ideas to complete learning activities
• Reviews homework assignments prior to dismissing students

Teacher's Instructional Methods

• Career pathways
• Cooperative learning
• Centers
• Peer tutoring
• Presentation options
• Assignment options
• High level questions/open ended
• Student centered classroom
• Grading rubric
• Journal Writing
• Timeline
• Materials are at hand & available
• Team teaching
• Field trips
• Book Report
• Role plays
• Writer's Workshop(s)
• Internships
• ROP classes
• Vocational programs
• HLAY 2000
• Puppets
• Anticipatory sets
• Peace Builders Program
• Clear class routines
• Bulletin boards that display interactive work of all students of what is being learned
• Class jobs & responsibilities
• Group projects
• Multiple prompts
• Sharing (show & tell)
• Peer sharing, editing
• Author's corner
• Other

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" As teachers develop, they may ask, "How do I . . ." or "Why do I . . ."

• use the classroom environment to provide opportunities for independent and collaborative learning?
• provide a variety of grouping structures to promote student interactions and learning?
• participate in and promote positive interactions between all students?
• support and monitor student autonomy and choice during learning experiences?
• support and monitor student collaboration during learning activities?
• help students make decisions about managing time and materials during learning activities?