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Responsibility Strategies

Strategies for gauging

 Encourage students to gauge how, where, and when they best learn. Provide

students with alternative ways of learning and encourage them to choose a

few. Give them a free ‘pass’ for one or more missed classes if they engage

with the required material by watching a documentary, going to a museum, or

performing an experiment.

 Have students design one or more of their assignments. Provide guidelines

based on your learning outcomes for the assignment and work with the

student to negotiate a grading rubric.

 When possible, let students negotiate an altered timeline for submitting one

or more assignments.

Strategies for engaging

 Create a culture of independence. Involve students in all aspects of their

education having them prepare a learning plan that includes a timeline for

completion of tasks. Have regular ‘check-ins’ to hold students accountable to

their plan and help them revise it, if necessary.

 Build strategies for learning into each activity and assignment. Create a

culture of independence. When asking students to submit a research paper

using peer-reviewed sources, provide them with a set of questions such as:

How do you intend to find peer-reviewed sources? Who would be the best

person to assist you in your search? What are your criteria for choosing strong

sources?