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Self Paced Classroom

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Some days, don’t you just wish you could clone yourself ? Most days, probably.  Wouldn’t that be nice?! It feels like we spend so much time repeating ourselves, and teaching the same concept over and over, that we never have enough time to spend actually working with our students . Having a clone would certainly make things easier! The strategies of the self paced classroom help to address that need!  (not the cloning, but, the time for sure.) We first got excited by the ideas of the self paced classroom when Kareem Farah appeared on Jennifer Gonzalez’ Cult of Pedagogy Podcast.  It is there we learned about Modern Classrooms Project FREE Self Paced Classroom essential training (which is...of course also self-paced!) We realized that many of the things that educators are striving for in their students and classes (truly getting to know their students as learners and humans, responsible and autonomous learners in charge of their own progress, having a solid understandi...