Description
How do you develop a student-centered secondary classroom with a packed curriculum, strict assessment guidelines, and an exam based culture?
This is the dilemma Gisou Ravanbaksh faced when wanting to provide more agency to her students in her DP Psychology class.
But through a few simple shifts in the learning process and audience for student work, her classroom came alive with students researching, developing, and exhibiting an authentic 'brain museum' they co-created from start to finish.
Learn more about the shifts she implemented and how you can unleash student agency in yours as well.
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Join a 12 Shifts Cohort in January: www.transformschool.com/12shiftsmasterclass
Gisou's Bio:
Gisou is a student-centered international educator and educational leader with 20 years of experience in both adolescent and adult learning. She has xpertise in designing and delivering customized professional development workshops on student wellbeing, cross-cultural understanding, diversity and inclusion, character development, curriculum design, leadership training, and other areas of targeted need.
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