Voice & Choice
Providing the opportunity for students to choose to learn the way they learn best and to direct some aspects of their learning.
What is giving students voice and choice in their learning.
An intentional way for teachers to track and report students' progress towards proficiency within learning standards.
What is Standards-Based Grading.
Occasional, opinion-based, and past-focused feedback occurs during what type of conferencing.
Students receive a summative grade on this type of key standard.
What is a reported standard.
A dynamic collection of rich information about a learner and their learning needs.
What is a Learner Profile.
Increasing engagement and ownership of learning, increasing relevancy of learning, empowering students within learning, and honoring student identities.
What are reasons for giving students a voice and choice in their own learning.
Slate assessments, exit slips, skill practice, and feedback conferences are all examples of this type of assessment.
What is formative assessment.
Frequent, criteria-based, future-focused feedback happens during what type of conferences?
What are co-constructed learning-focused feedback conferences.
This tool describes what student performance within a reported standard looks and sounds like at each level of proficiency.
What is a proficiency table.
To support student self-reflection and advocacy for learning needs, to foster meaningful student-teacher relationships, and to develop learner identities.
What are the purposes of a Learner Profile.
The process, product and/or content of learning are each areas in which this can happen.
Students are afforded opportunities to have a voice and choice in their own learning.
End-of-unit tests, comprehensive projects/presentations, and authentic application and synthesis of learning are all examples of this type of assessment.
What is a summative assessment.
This refers to the dynamic, dialogic process that uses evidence to engage a learner internally or with a learning partner, in constructing knowledge about practice and self.
What is co-constructed feedback.
This type of statement ensures teacher and student clarity on what is being learned.
What is an I Can statement.
Demographic data, academic status, learning-related skills, and potential learning drivers together comprise this.
The 4 dimensions of a learner profile.
The provision of this allows students to become self-directed learners, explore their passions, and feel honored for their ideas and opinions.
What is voice and choice.
Focusing on learning rather than compliance, identifying specific levels of proficiency within learning standards, and avoiding penalizing students for taking risks in learning are all rationales for what current shift in education?
What is the shift from traditional to standards-based grading systems.
The on-going cycle of a learner and learning partner reviewing data/evidence, and constructing and deconstructing knowledge to transform future practice.
What is the feedback cycle.
What are proficiency tables.
The most powerful audience for the learning profile.
Who are the learners themselves.
Sharing their ideas or understandings, designing their own project or unit, setting goals and monitoring their own learning, and/or leading a conference, discussion, or presentation are all examples of this.
Giving students voice and choice in their learning.
A document used at the high school level to convert standard grades to traditional grades for the purpose of a transcript.
What is a conversion chart.
This tool describes the 9 different types of feedback progressing from low cognitive demand for the learner to high cognitive demand for the learner.
What is the Typology of Feedback.
What tool drives the conversation within co-constructed feedback conferences?
In a study defining and tracking schools that personalize instruction, all sixty-two schools cite a focus on this as best practices for personalization.
What is the Learner Profile.