Classroom Observation: Student Autonomy

http://www.timbedley.com Tim Bedley's 4/5 combo class. Classroom footage showing how students can do much more to facilitate learning than most people think they can! Watch Oscar, a 5th grade EL student, lead the class in a variety of learning activities. Examples include checking homework, whole class discussions, reviewing student work, reading groups (reciprocal teaching), singing, peer review, spelling tests, and more. To see more cutting edge teaching ideas for elementary school teachers, please visit http://www.timbedley.com

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[PsychoEx]

cool method, but where was the teacher?

[tbed63]

@PsychoEx Shooting the video ; )

[simplemathmatix]

love this it demonstrates the teacher’s trust in the students and the capacity of students.

[LordAlda]

@LordAlda It's like you're offloading the teacher's work onto the students. Yes, students should learn to be self sufficient, but this is better done when they're doing homework sets together.

[LordAlda]

I mean systematic learning and clear procedures wouldn't create independent is good. The world needs them to be more collaborative learners. I don't think that what the students are doing there are truly highlighting the importance and fostering retention of procedures. Feedback loops like homework correction should be shorter, by the teacher. To get to the point students should be collaborating in doing tougher homework within the class. While, lessons should be done at home, through video.

[LordAlda]

While I don't agree with all of the methods employed. There definitely were some cool techniques.