Pedagogical+3+Question+2

2. If students are in charge of their own learning, how will we be sure they learn what's important?

 * Student centered lesson gives the opportunity teacher to facilitate what learning is taking place
 * Students can be paired with others via peer tutoring. (ensuring that the student is responsible for knowing the content)
 * Teachers can do informal assessments of students while they are working on their learning activity.
 * Students get a participatory grade to keep them on task.
 * The self management of time and skills is taught by the process of independent learning
 * Spencer's group is the best group in the world.
 * You can give them an outline of what they need to do to keep them on task of what they need to learn or retain from their independent learning experience.
 * You can also allow them to decide what is important by letting them examine a topic they are interested in.
 * They are motivated by the respect and responsibility factor of choosing how or what they wish to learn.