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Learner Agency

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Stephen King

Leigh Duncan

Mark Hassall

Champion

Lead ASL

Support ASL

Remuera Primary School

Meadowbank School

Remuera Primary School

Across School Leaders

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In School Leaders

Shana Mutton

Cathy Richardson

Laura Wheeler

Kim Carson

Remuera Primary

Remuera Primary

Meadowbank

Meadowbank

Susan Bridgman

Grace Hessell

Anita Hewitt/Jo Simpson

Lisa Murphy (ASL)

Parnell District

Parnell District

Maungawhau

EGGS

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Learners have agency when they have influence and a sense of ownership over their learning, having the ability and opportunity to be part of the learning design process”

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Where did we begin?

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What have we done?

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Has the initiative enhanced the learning process?

“I can choose one of the things I don’t know from the ladder. Those are the things I need to work on. If I do a knowledge card and I get two wrong, I know I need to get them all right to move on. In a test, if there are some (questions) I don’t know or are interesting, I can choose that.”

Year 3 student

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How do you know what your next steps in learning are?

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Are we making a difference?

  • Analysis of Pre and Post Intervention data shows significant pockets of growth in agency across the involved schools; however, it would be remiss to assume a direct connection between this growth and the 2018 Learner Agency interventions. Challenge: to gather valid and reliable longitudinal data on learner agency

  • Students more aware and strategic in identifying

and addressing their own learning needs

  • Rich and animated staff discussions around Learner

Agency are happening within PLGs

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Inquire into teacher practice

Pre and Post Intervention Research into Learner Agency

from Teachers’ & Students’ Perspectives - their voice

CORE Education Research Paper - the ten conditions

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Share and promote best teacher practice

Establishing a common ‘Language of Learning’

Engaging students in planning, timetabling & curriculum design

De-privatising assessment - ‘with’ not ‘to’

Assessment for Learning

Cross-curricular benefits of Learner Agency

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Useful links to research and evidence

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