Student-Directed Teaching

Student-directed teaching is an educational methodology, developed by Don and Anne Green at the University of Calgary in Canada, that gives students more control over and responsibility for their own learning. It responds to concerns that mass schooling has changed little since the 1850s and often fails to meet the needs of individual students. The approach offers five teaching styles arranged along a spectrum, from Command through Task, Peer-Partner and Student-Teacher Contract to Self-Directed, letting students choose the style that fits them, and its Community of Learners framework turns the classroom into an interactive space where children take charge of their own learning. Unlike Montessori or Waldorf education, student-directed teaching keeps the same curricular requirements for every student while giving them freedom in how they meet those requirements. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/