{"data":{"ID":246,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1351821994,"CreatorID":62,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Students as Teaching Resources","Handle":"Students_as_Teaching_Resources:2","ShortDescription":"A conversation involving educators and how we can involve students in planning, implementation, and assessment within the classroom. A practical approach for educators who would like more student investment and ownership in education.","Description":"Utilizing students in the classroom is not a new idea. Educators understand the impact on motivation and engagement when students have a voice and meaningful responsibility. Unfortunately, initiating and sustaining such student involvement is timely and stressful. What responsibilities do you hand over and how do you monitor the student's achievements? When can you make the students responsible for teaching and in what context? What are the benefits and challenges? These types of questions were raised when we started a program called SIRS, or Students as Integrated ResourceS. The students volunteer and come in after school to participate in a hands on activity. We discuss challenges, understandings, and possible mistakes. When their peers do the same activity in class, these specially trained students act as teachers; answering questions, helping with procedures, monitoring safety, and even engaging the unmotivated individuals. The SIRS have become an integrated and a necessary part of the class, such that recently, a student who raised their hand for help, and saw me coming, said \"No, no. I want a SIRS.\" We would like to share the implementation strategies we used and how we are sustaining the program with other educators. In addition, we would like to extend the conversation to include other classes and subjects. Does the SIRS program have wide-spread application? How can it be adapted to fit teachers and students schedules? How do we measure the success of the SIRS in the data-driven environment of education? What are the barriers to creating meaningful student involvement?\r\n\r\nIn summary, we would like to create a critical friends group to analyze our best practices for involving students in daily instruction and invite others to analyze their best practices as well.","Link":["http:\/\/www.nsrfharmony.org\/protocol\/doc\/success_ana_individuals.pdf","http:\/\/www.soundout.org\/teaching.html","http:\/\/www.anastaciabrie.com"],"Audience":["High School","Middle School","All School Levels"],"Practice":"1. In heterogeneous groups, share an experience of student involvement or student voice or student integration in a classroom that you consider to be the best. Reflect and answer the question: \"What made this experience so different from others?\"\r\n2. Develop a common definition of best practice concerning student involvement in a class room. Define it by what it looks like, sounds like, and what is measurable - for a teacher or for a student. Each group creates their own document (chart paper? google document? post-it notes - can be flexible). Use prior experiences that you just shared.\r\n3. Video of students participating in a SIRS class\r\n4. Any clarifying questions about the student teaching program from the video?\r\n5. Analyze what we saw - how does it match our definitions? how is it different? What does it have in common with your personal experiences? what is different? What can we measure? (or even should we \"measure\" it - but that might be an entirely new conversation.)\r\n6. From that analysis, any extension questions or insights or adaptations?\r\n7. Group Work: How can I extend my best practices for student involvement in the classroom - not just engagement, but meaningful participation in the teaching itself? What can I take back to my classroom? School? or even District?\r\n8. Wrap-up and reflection","Presenter":["Anastacia Brie","Grace O'Keeffe"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Hudson Highschool of Learning Technologies"],"PresenterEmail":["abrie@hudsonhs.com","gokeeffe@hudsonhs.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":6,"ScheduleLocationID":4,"SubmitterID":62,"AdditionalComments":"I have to share that I got a lot of inspiration from attending EduCon conferences in the past. Just listening and sharing with others about new ideas and strategies for engaging students. I adapted the SIRS program after a conversation with a student who participated in the student teaching program at the Science Leadership Academy. We couldn't utilize seniors, because we don't have any at the moment, so I had to use the kids in the class. It took me two years to develop and sustain the program. So thanks so much. EduCon has made a difference in my practice. With this application, I am hoping to give back!","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":2}}