What I’m Reading: Student Directed Learning

Welcome to What I’m Reading, one of our newest series featuring some of the reading we’ve been doing on hot educational topics. Lately, I’ve been reading about how to make my classroom a more student-centered environment. Here are some of the posts, articles, and resources that have provided a ton of information and ideas:

–Ladder of Student Involvement from Education Vision Leadership

–Student Centered Learning with Kevin from Mrs. Paterson’s Blog

–Student Directed Learning: Balancing Student Choice with Curricular Goals from ASCD’s Education Vison

–Student Directed Learning Pays Off for Naperville Students from the Daily Herald

–My One Great Lesson This Year from The Education on the Plate

–Getting Started With Student Directed Learning from Blogging Through the Fourth Dimension

–Handing Over Control to the Kids from Burlington High School Principal’s Blog

–Student Directed Learning = Passion Based Classrooms from The Innovative Educator

The movement toward more student centered classrooms can happen in many different ways. But it’s definitely a movement whose time has come. I hope these resources might help you get started in your own classroom.