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It’s the 10 million-dollar question every teacher asks: How do I get my students to truly engage in their learning? According to author and education expert Katie White, student self-assessment is key to developing student agency. Katie has done a ton of thinkig and writing on this subject and, in this podcast, she’ll reveal some truly valuable information you can use.

We’ll peek into Katie’s most recent book, Student Self-Assessment: Data Notebooks, Portfolios, and Other Tools to Advance Learning, to get a glimpse of some innovative self-assessment strategies that can be used for every grade level. Plus, you’ll discover what in the world wrestling has to do with all this.

Join us as we delve into:

• Why self-assessment is so essential to the cognitive development of the student
• The multilayered value of students documenting their personal learning journey
• Making classroom assignments and goal-setting more organic and relevant to student interests and their natural methods for accomplishing tasks
• The relationship between self-assessment and safe spaces for learning
• Intentionally building in time for students to make decisions about their learning and also to recover from mistakes
• Why learning is better when it’s co-constructed and shared in partnership with students

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