{"id":13140,"date":"2017-08-25T12:14:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T16:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/?p=13140"},"modified":"2025-05-21T06:26:32","modified_gmt":"2025-05-21T10:26:32","slug":"developmental-designs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tiie.w3.uvm.edu\/blog\/developmental-designs\/","title":{"rendered":"A Developmental Designs approach to student-directed learning"},"content":{"rendered":"

It takes a courageous village<\/h2>\n

\"#everydaycourage\"In order for student centered learning to happen, we have to invest in explicitly teaching (and reteaching) routines, expectations, and behaviors for learning. The beginning of the year is an ideal time to first establish a culture and community for learning.<\/p>\n

But it takes time to learn and practice these routines.<\/p>\n

Often, we feel the pressure of time urging us to jump right into our first units, yet without this foundation in place we can find ourselves spending valuable time redirecting student behavior, rather than focusing on content-specific learning.<\/p>\n

It takes courage to acknowledge that we need to model, teach behaviors, and establish routines before we can ask students to learn. #everydaycourage.<\/p>\n

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Who wants their first day of in-service to be like this?<\/h3>\n

Yesterday was the first day back in school for teachers at Brattleboro Area Middle School. Like most first days of in-service, it included many common items: delicious baked goods, new staff welcomes, inspirational You Tube videos.<\/p>\n

But there was something else today that gave me goosebumps.<\/p>\n

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