Giving students time for reflection on their learning is so good for them: It builds their metacognitive capacity, it teaches them to take agency for their own learning, and it helps them and YOU see more clearly what they have learned and what they need next. But when we have so much other stuff to do, reflection often gets shoved out of the way. In this episode, high school teacher Marcus Luther returns to share a simple, completely free system he developed for giving students regular time for self-reflection. It's a year-long document we're calling a Learning Story.
Thanks to Listenwise and EVERFI for sponsoring this episode.
Read Marcus's full blog post about this strategies, view images, and grab a free Learning Story template at cultofpedagogy.com/learning-stories.
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109: Get Students Talking with Ongoing Conversations
108: To Learn, Students Need to DO Something
107: The Best Ways to Use Leveled Texts
106: The Danger of Teacher Nostalgia
105: Voice of Witness: Bring the Power of Oral History to Your Classroom
104: What the Research Says About Note-Taking
103: Deeper Class Discussions with the TQE Method
102: A Look Inside a Teacher Fellowship Program
101: A Step-by-Step Plan for Teaching Narrative Writing
100: Lessons in Personhood
99: Quality-Check Your Tech: 6 Strategies
98: Improving the Way We Teach About Slavery
97: The Principal's Pet: A Cautionary Tale
96: What's the Point of a Makerspace?
95: Twelve Ways Teachers Can Build Their Emotional Resilience
94: How accurate are your grades?
93: Eight Things I Know for Sure About Middle School Kids
92: Frickin' Packets
91: Twelve Ways to Upgrade Your Classroom Design
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