Giving Compass' Take:
- Lauren Barack discusses the importance of school curriculum and good classroom discussions to encourage students to speak their minds and develop their own voices.
- How can teachers create an inclusive classroom and reach out to more reserved students? Why is it important to allow students to speak to their opinions and develop a voice?
- Read more about the importance of student voices.
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While teachers are the navigators of a classroom, children are hardly the workers below deck. The trend today is to empower students to find their own voice and give them some autonomy in the way they learn or how their school day is run. Students at Greece Central School District near Rochester, NY, for example, voiced their discomfort with changing into gym clothes every day, and the administration ended that requirement, as Education Dive reported last year.
While not every student who speaks up will grow into a leader, every child can be taught to find their voice through the curriculum, as The Hechinger Report recently wrote, describing a leadership program for elementary school children called the Bonstingl Leaders for the Future. The program helps students learn how to be active listeners while also looking for solutions to situations that are diplomatic and searching for a way to resolve issues that works for the betterment of all.
Read the full article about developing student voices in curriculum by Lauren Barack at Education Dive.