Student-Centered Instruction: Opening Up Learning for Our Students

Learning Doesn't Have One Way In and One Way Out

Learning is a More Like a Web

Students regularly face 'closed' learning experiences

Examples of 'Closed' Learning

• Text selection that is based on lexile level
• Over scaffolding
• Grading the wrong things

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The Research

• Teacher clarity, d=0.75
• Formative evaluation, d=0.90
• Feedback, d=1.13
• Classroom discussion, d=0.82
• Self questioning, d=0.64
• Teaching problem solving, d=0.63
• (From J. Hattie, 2017)

Instructional Strategies

• Student-friendly learning targets
• Choice for students
• Authentic audience
• Continual, formative assessment
• Self assessment

Student-Centered Instruction in Action

Write about a childhood memory.

Use the graphic organizer to write about a time that you went to an amusement park.

Self-assess your first piece using the learning targets in the handouts.

Go back to your original piece and revise it with the learning targets in mind.

What did we learn?

We Open Up Learning Through

• Student-friendly learning targets
• Authentic audience
• Student discussion
• Choice
• Self-Assessment
• Continuous formative assessment

Practical Strategies