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Student Voice and Choice

Created by: Curriculum Committee

Student Generated Ideas

What is the teacher's role in promoting student identification and exploration of interest?

Student Generated Ideas

Examples: voting, brainstorming, webbing.

ABA

  • Giving choices with visuals in small field

  • Frequent preference assessments

  • Voting with limited choices

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Self-Contained

  • We embed activities (games, toys) on a shelf for self directed explorations

  • Choice boards are used to facilitate individual choices

  • We vote on books, on music

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Small Preschool

Small

Preschool

  • Voting on themes or toys to have out

  • Lots of kid voting using pictures

  • Listening to their conversations

  • Giving choices

  • Helping/Guiding them to make choices

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Half-Day Gen Ed

  • Vote- smart board, stickers, pieces of paper, cubes, manipulatives, graphing

  • Vote with bodies between two teachers, stand by the teacher with your choice

  • Help their organize their thoughts during class discussions

  • Observe their play, present to group and pose discussions

  • Teacher presents ideas possible from student interest and have students generate ideas for specific details within an area

  • Present items or ideas from provocation to spark interest

Half-Day Gen Ed

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Team Taught

  • Facilitator: setting up the environment to allow them explore

  • Voting

  • Project work

Team Taught

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Full-Day Gen Ed

Full Day Gen Ed

  • Voting: tally mark, check, x, body in different location, name writing, hand position, stickers, tokens

  • Whole group brainstorming
  • Smart board or chart paper webbing

  • Listening and observing student interest

  • Putting teasers out to gauge interest level

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Choices

What opportunities do students have to make choices? How and when are choices offered to students?

Choices

ABA

  • Use of visuals

  • 3D Objects

  • Small field size

  • Choice which center they go to and when

ABA

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Self-Contained

  • Curriculum choices

Self-Contained

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Small Preschool

Small Preschool

  • Seating choices

  • What center to start at

  • What kind of art materials to use

  • Choose partners for walking in the hall/at centers

  • Offered throughout the day

  • Behaviors/theraputic choices

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Half-Day Gen Ed

Half-Day Gen Ed

  • Decisions about daily activites (going outside, when to have centers)

  • Choice time

  • Center time activties

  • Choices within open-ended activities

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Team Taught

Team Taught

  • Process oriented

  • Flexibility

  • Given multiple materials and variety so they can choose their interest

  • Ample time for exploration
  • Choices are offered constantly throughout the day

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Full-Day Gen Ed

Full-Day Gen Ed

  • Choice of theme

  • Choice of materials to interact with during center and free choice time

  • Choice of peer to play with

  • Choice of duration of play in center

  • Choice of place to sit at group time and eating

  • Choices given as a redirection or for problem solving

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Teacher/Student Goal Setting

What are ways that teachers can help students set goals/choosing a class goal? How does a class team, including students identify a skill that they want to shape?

Teacher/Student Goal Setting

ABA

  • Use of token economy board to try and reach a goal

ABA

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Self-Contained

Self-Contained

  • Choosing a goal based on character education

  • Complete preference assessments with wide variety of choices

  • Give students pictures to choose from that are associated with what they want to learn

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Small Preschool

  • Asking students about what they want to learn this year- using visuals

  • Taking data together

Small Preschool

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Half-Day Gen Ed

  • Click to edit text

Half-Day Gen Ed

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Team Taught

  • Plant something in the room and see what students navigate to it

Team Taught

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Full-Day Gen Ed

  • Using class meeting to recognize a problem in the classrom, brainstorm ways to solve problem and identify goal

  • Sit one on one with students and use visuals to create goal

  • Pre-K- look at strenghts and weaknesses to create academic goal

Full-Day Gen Ed

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Student/Teacher Created Activities

Student/Teacher Created Activities

What information do you use when designing center time activities? How is student voice and choice demonstrated during center time- based on the needs of our students? How are teachers encouraging problem solving and critical thinking? How can teachers support and facilitate student learning during center time?

ABA

ABA

  • Utilize their IEP goals

  • Common assessment and interests

  • Encourage problem solving skills by creating tasks that would be a struggle to complete independently so that the students have to ask for help

  • Giving them pieces of what we are supposed to do and then having them ask for the additional piece to complete the activity

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Self-Contained

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Self-Contained

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Small Preschool

Small Preschool

  • Common assessments

  • Rubrics

  • IEP goals

  • Based off student interest

  • They decide on where they start in center

  • Asking to go to a center with a certain friend

  • If they ask for something that's not out

  • Building on student play themes

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Half-Day Gen Ed.

  • Click to edit text

Half-Day Gen Ed

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Team Taught

Team Taught

  • Children's interest

  • Data to see where students needs are

  • Independent use of timers for turn taking

  • Using literacy to teach problem solving

  • Encouraging them to talk to each other to turn take/problem solve

  • Teaching Parker's Promise to take care of each other and what that means

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Full-Day Gen Ed

Full-Day Gen Ed

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Other Ways to Encourage Voice and Choice

Other Ways to Encourage Voice and Choice

Environment: How is the environment adapted for the needs of your students? How do your classroom management procedures incorporate voice and choice?

ABA

  • Utilize visual supports

  • Asking for a break

  • Having access to multiple items in calming corner

  • Having choices in motor room

  • Flexible seating chart

ABA

Video

Self-Contained

Self-Contained

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Small Preschool

Click to edit text

Small Preschool

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Half-Day Gen Ed

Half-Day Gen Ed

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Team Taught

  • Large variety of centers

  • Some students need more adult direction than others to make their choices

Team Taught

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Full-Day Gen Ed

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Full-Day Gen Ed

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Relationships

Relationships

How are the relationships between peers supported? How do you foster kids working together collaboratively? How do we help students appreciate and listen to their peers voice and choice?

ABA

  • Encourage peer relationships-run programs that focus on students looking/interacting with their peers to earn reinforcement

  • Foster collaborative learning by finding common interests and creating activities that revolve around that common interest

ABA

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Self-Contained

Self-Contained

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Small Preschool

Small Preschool

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Half-Day Gen Ed

Half-Day Gen Ed

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Team Taught

Team Taught

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Full-Day Gen Ed

Full-Day Gen Ed

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