Cooperation confirmed

Ownership of learning

The educational magazine JSW - Number 7, March 2014 - is a special about 'Ownership'. 

Many articles about this topic, all with the same conclusion that pupils must work on own goals to create the feeling that they are the owner of their own learning process.

Several options for literature are given. 

I made again a choice for one of them to share with you.

In the book, Professor Dylan William provides the 5 strategies that he has come to believe are core to successful formative assessment practice in the classroom:

1. Clarifying, sharing, and understanding learning intentions and criteria for success – getting the students to really understand what their classroom experience will be and how their success will be measured.

2. Engineering effective classroom discussions, activities, and learning tasks that elicit evidence of learning – developing effective classroom instructional strategies that allow for the measurement of success.

3. Providing feedback that moves learning forward – working with students to provide them the information they need to better understand problems and solutions.

4. Activating learners as instructional resources for one another – getting students involved with each other in discussions and working groups can help improve student learning.

5. Activating learners as owners of their own learning –  self-regulation of learning leads to student performance improvement.

Renovation Dalton school de Maten

Dalton school 'De Maten' in Den Ham/Holland could move to their new renovated school building last week.

This school is Member of Dalton International and visitors from abroad are always welcome in this great team of teachers.

Dalton school 'De Maten' is partner school of a school in Brno/CZ :
Základni Škola Horácké Namesti Brno

COOL

Working on ownership

René Berends is researcher at the 'readership for educational innovation and Dalton education'. He wrote an interesting article in JSW magazine (number 7 March 2014) with the title Working on ownership.
"It is possible and also necessary to make pupils the owner of their own learning process".
He quotes the book of Alan November, published in 2011.

Who should be working harder during class? The teacher or the students?

In the “Age of the Empowered Learner” we can equip our students to take responsibility to manage a large proportion of their learning.

We can also empower our students to create content that contributes to the learning of their peers. Research indicates that one of the most powerful strategies to improve learning is to provide students with self-assessment strategies.

This book shows step-by-step strategies that creates a culture of the empowered self-directed and collaborative learner.

Dalton China

Dalton China is founded some time ago and is in a partnership with Dalton International.
During the "Dalton China Innovation Forum" Hans Wenke gave a presentation about the vision on Dalton education and a workshop about cooperative learning.
Hans handed over a certificate of Dalton International to Mr. Zhen Haiyong.
On the last picture the whole working staff of Dalton China together with Hans Wenke and Elizabeth Neil from 'Little Dalton' in Hongkong.

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