Learner Voice

What does it mean:  How do we define this

Learners have significant and meaningful input into their educational experience.

Performance assessments are created by students to show mastery of skills. Students create rubrics and projects to showscase their learning.

In education, student voice refers to the values, opinions, beliefs, perspectives, and cultural backgrounds of individual students and groups of students in a school, and to instructional approaches and techniques that are based on student choices, interests, passions, and ambitions.  
https://www.edglossary.org/student-voice/

Voice occurs when students actively participate in the discourse or conversation.  Students become citizens, not subjects in the world of schooling.

Reflect on what it looks like:

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Based on Institute’s for Personalized Learning’s Honeycomb Alignment Continuum Reflection

Why Give Learner's Voice:  What research or evidence supports this

Providing students with voice correlates with Danielson's Framework for Effective Teaching in the following areas:
1f  ~ Designing Student Assessments.....Distinguished.. Level 4
  • Students participate in designing assessments for their own work.
  • Students develop rubrics according to teacher-specified learning objectives
  • Students are actively involved in collecting information from formative assessments and provide input
2b ~ Establishing a Culture for Learning.....Distinguished.. Level 4
  • Students indicate through their questions and comments a desire to understand the content
  • Students take initiative in improving the quality of their own work
3a ~ Communicating with Students.....Distinguished.. Level 4
  • If asked, students are able to explain what they are learning and where it fits into the larger curriculum context.
3c ~ Engaging Students in Learning.....Distinguished.. Level 4
  • Students take initiative to adapt the lesson by (1) modifying a learning task to make it more meaningful or relevant to their needs,(2) suggesting modifications to the grouping patterns used, and/or (3) suggesting modifications or additions to the materials being used.

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