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Ashley Bajohr

Ashley Bajohr is a 4th-grade teacher in Yuma School District One

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Blended Learning  |  Classrooms  |  Personalized Learning

[Guest Post] Giving Up Control: A Teacher’s Perspective on the Personalized Learning Journey

When I gave up control of my classroom, true learning started taking place. Giving up control felt liberating and inspiring. I handed the baton of teaching to my students. I was no longer the focus of the lesson. Student’s voices traveled through our classroom with excitement and engagement. I happily took the role of facilitating and the words of my students amazed me. The more I put on the students the more they produced. They took responsibility for themselves and began collaborating with me to create lessons, and design assessments that would demonstrate mastery of a standard. Students started asking me what they could do either advance their learning or help in the classroom.

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