Learning Never Stops

A student-led classroom is one where students play an integral part in decision-making. Coming up with essential agreements, deciding what homework to do, and planning the unit of inquiry, are various ways students can take charge. The support  and guidance of their teacher is ofcourse, a critcal factor. Well then, how about differentiation? We create pre-assements and formative assessments in order to gauge our students' understanding. What if the assesments are not good enough to gauge where the students are? Knowing that assessments are completely subjective, (however hard we try to be objective), shouldn't the students decide where they are in a continuum, and place themselves in different groups? Many children in my class do not speak English at home.Their inability to understand a maths word problem in English (and thereby getting the sum wrong), can give a false picture of that child's grasp of the concept. In the video. my stu...