Student Responsibility Planning Template

Giving students responsibility can be challenging for even the most experienced teacher. Guiding students in successfully managing that responsibility can be even harder. Use this planning template to walk through an assessment of your current classroom strategies for managing time, resources, assignments, and assessments, and then reflect upon the next steps for your classroom. A touchstone trait of successful college students and career employees is responsibility. Students cannot learn to be responsible in isolation. In order to facilitate long-term retention of such skills, they must be practiced - purposefully and meaningfully - within the context of daily procedures and in a carefully constructed learning environment. To build a foundation for student ownership in the classroom, use the template below to guide reflection and set actionable goals. Whether you are familiarizing yourself with the concept of student responsibility or are a veteran facilitator of the Learner-Active, T