5. Owning your Learning

Activating students as owners of their own learning

1. 1. • Use self-reports, but don't rely on them

      • Focus self-assessment on improvement, not on standards

      • Make self-assessment a routine part of class work (exit slip?)

      • Question parking lot

      • In self-evaluations, have students identify changes they need to make, but not make them (yet)

      • Have student-led Parent-Teacher conferences (prepare a list of sentence starters or reflection questions for suddenly shy students. e.g. 'what help do I need from my parents?' or 'What help do I need from my teacher?')

      • Nurture both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation