Target Audience

Educators, School Leaders

 

Background and Overview

Students have rarely been involved in making significant changes to their learning. Education reforms have typically focused on curriculum, teachers and teaching, and assessment, but rarely about helping students to become owners of their learning and learning environments.

 

In this webinar series, Professor Zhao, an influential education scholar,  will cover the following:

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Webinar 1: Enabling conditions for student ownership and self-determined learning 

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Webinar 2: Teaching strategies for student ownership and self-determined learning 

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Webinar 3: Assessment and technology for student ownership and self-determined learning

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Webinar 1: March 16, 2021

Enabling Conditions for Student Ownership and Self-Determined Learning 

In this webinar, Professor Yong Zhao will discuss the enabling conditions that allow students to develop ownership of their learning and exercise their rights of self-determination. The discussion will center around curriculum, school administration and management, school culture, and school environments. He will emphasize the key concept of flexibility.

 

Objectives

• Understanding how curriculum affects student ownership and self-determined learning

• Understanding how school administration and management affect student ownership and self-determined learning

• Understanding how school culture affects student ownership and self-determined learning

• Understanding how school environment affects student ownership and self-determined learning

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Webinar 2: March 18, 2021

Teaching Strategies for Student Ownership and Self-Determined Learning

In this webinar, Professor Yong Zhao discusses strategies that teachers can use to enable student ownership of learning. The discussion will also touch upon learning activities that allow student to practice self-determination. Professor Zhao will present an 8 step framework for product-oriented teaching.

 

Objectives:

• Understanding how teaching affects student ownership and self-determined learning

• Understanding why identifying problems should be the first step of learning

• Understanding how to engage students in identifying problems worth solving

• Understanding the importance of product creation

• Understanding the product-oriented pedagogy framework

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Webinar 3: March 19, 2021

Assessment and Technology for Student Ownership and Self-Determined Learning

In this webinar, Professor Yong Zhao continues the discussion about enabling student ownership of learning and practice self-determined learning. In particular, he will discuss changes needed for assessment. He will also discuss how technology can be used to support student ownership of learning.

 

Objectives:

• Understanding how assessment affects student ownership and self-determined learning

• Understanding new forms of assessment

• Understanding the good and bad uses of technology

• Understanding how technology can be used to support the development of ownership and self-determination.

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