“Academic Choice uses a three-part structure of planning, working, and reflecting. In the planning phase (opening), teachers present the choices and help students select an option that will help them meet their learning goals. During the working phase (body), teachers offer support as children follow through on the choice they made during planning. And during reflecting (closing), teachers offer prompting questions that help students think about how their work turned out, what they learned, and how their choices helped or hindered that learning.”
It’s January, and you notice that over the break your students seem to have forgotten all the routines they had been practicing since the start of the school year. Students ...
It’s midway through the school year and you notice one of your students has fallen into a pattern of missing work and struggling on tests and quizzes. You know it’s ...
At the start of the school year, as new classroom communities are forming, teachers begin planning ways to connect and form relationships with new students. By the middle of the ...