Using student voice in social studies/humanities to personalise learning
Sellings, Peter, Waldrip, Bruce, Prain, Vaughan and Lovejoy, Valerie 2015, Using student voice in social studies/humanities to personalise learning. In Prain, Vaughan, Cox, Peter, Deed, Craig, Edwards, Debra, Farrelly, Cathleen, Keeffe, Mary, Lovejoy, Valerie, Mow, Lucy, Sellings, Peter and Waldrip, Bruce (ed), Personalising learning in open-plan schools, Sense Publishers, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, pp.181-204.
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Using student voice in social studies/humanities to personalise learning
Promoting student voice in school learning is now broadly advocated to enhance the quality and personalised nature of this learning (Beattie, 2012; Elias, 2010; Mitra & Gross, 2009). In this chapter we report on a program where Year 8 low SES students participated in peer formative assessment in a humanities inquiry-based project, where they chose both the type and context of learning activities, and were taught by three teachers in an open-plan setting. The students assessed their peers’ presentations and also self-assessed their work, with some co-regulated support through the use of teacher-provided rubrics. The teachers believed it was a valuable learning opportunity, in that students had a heightened sense of owning their learning and, as we will argue, had a personalised learning experience that developed their capacities as independent self-aware learners.
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