Learn Like a PIRATE
  • Peer Collab.
  • Improvement Focus
  • Responsibility
  • Active Lrng.
  • 21st Century Skills
  • Empowerment
  • QR Codes
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  • FAQ
    • Student Video Answers 1
    • Student Video Answers 2
    • Common Q&A's 1
    • Common Q&A's 2

Answered by Me:

  • How do you measure growth? How is growth reported out?
  • How do you get students to take more leadership roles in the classroom while treating others respectfully?  
  • How does one stress responsibility of homework completion intrinsically?
  • How do you get parents to come on board with change?
  • How do you make all students to feel empowered to take responsibility in the classroom?
  • How do your introverts handle the controlled chaos and participating in groups?
  • Did someone encourage you to write this book?
  • I am curious about how your classroom environment works for your true introverts.  What do you do with the student who is happy to sit back and let others take charge?
  • What do other teachers in your building think of your teaching model?  Have others adapted your philosophy or resisted?  If so, why?
  • How do these skills translate to other grades that do not use your teaching methods?  
  • What have you heard from primary teachers about successes with a student led classroom and areas of difficulty?

Answered by My Students:

  • Do you ever feel that you would benefit from more structure?  Elaborate.
  • What was your very first step towards becoming a student-led classroom?
  • How do you educate your parents on this shift?
  • Do you ever feel like some of your peers don’t participate as much? How do you encourage them to participate more?
  • How do you compare your experiences this year with other years in elementary school?
  • What is one thing that you would change about the current model?
  • Does the PE teacher at your school use the student-led class model as well?  If so, what is their experience?
  • Do you feel that there is some structure in your classroom?
  • Do you feel like you are helping your classmates learn or do you think you all learn more when your teacher does everything?
  • Do you feel that you are learning as much or more in your classroom this year, as you have in the past?
  • Do you prefer a teaching structure from a previous teaching method?
  • What does a student-led classroom look like in a resource room?

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