As we are all deep into another cycle of OTES evaluations, I thought that looking at student engagement would be a good idea. Student engagement and student ownership cross many areas of the OTES rubric. Many researches, Haite and Marzano-just to name a few, have reported extensively on how student engagement and student ownership affect learning. Click here to read an article about student centered classrooms. The article is mostly just some questions to help you reflect on what type of learning environment you have in your classroom. This article is on edutopia.com, if you haven't used that website before, I would encourage you to take a look at the many resources there.
Questions to consider:
1. In what ways do students feel respected, feel valued, and feel part of the whole group?
2. In what ways do students have ownership of the classroom? Do they ever make decisions about resources, environment, or use of time? When? How often?
3. Do they have ownership in their learning? Do they have choices and options for projects, assignments, and partners for group work?
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