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Allocating Agency:
Getting Our Students to Own Their Learning
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Brandi Snead
Digital Learning Coach Hays C.I.S.D.
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Guiding Questions
What is the importance of Student Agency, including choice and voice in the classroom?
How do we use Executive Functioning skills to help foster student choice and voice in the classroom?
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Student Agency
Student agency refers to learning through activities that are meaningful and relevant to learners, driven by their interests, and often self-initiated with appropriate guidance from teachers.
To put it simply, student agency gives students voice and choice, in how they learn.
Choice
Giving students choice allows them to take ownership of their learning as well as create a product that feels authentic to them. They work on something that they’re good at creating, or try something they want to get better at.
Differentiating by Offering Choices- Edutopia
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Time | Learning is no longer restricted to the school day or the school year. |
Place | Learning is no longer restricted to the walls of the classroom, or the seat at the desk. |
Path | Learning is no longer restricted to teacher delivery. Adaptive software and online dashboards allow students to learn in a method that is customized to their needs and allow choice. |
Pace | Learning is no longer restricted to the pace of an entire classroom of students. |
Exploration Time
For the next eight minutes I would like for you to explore the resources on slides 8-13.
When you finish exploring I would like for you to add feedback t the Padlet on slide 14
All the resources give you ideas on how you can use choice in your classroom.
Catlin Tucker
Would you Rather?
Catlin Tucker
Catlin Tucker
Catlin Tucker
-Ditch that Textbook
-Edutopia
Must Do/ May Do Menus
Melissa Ivicic
Voice
Students are Empowered to:
Exploration Time
For the next eight minutes I would like for you to explore the resources on slides 17- 21.
When you finish exploring I would like for you to add feedback t the Padlet on slide 22
All the resources give you ideas on how you can use voice in your classroom.
Barbara Bray
Eric Sheninger
1. Start at the beginning of the year
2. Restorative circles
3. Feedback
4. Choice boards
5. SEL
6. Group Work
- Ditch that Textbook
- ISTE
Executive Functioning Skills
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2 Years Back-to-Back
Year 1
I was blessed with the best class this year! All my students are eager to learn and work as a team. Although the levels range from SPED to GT I am still able to teach the students where they are, in small groups. Stations, transitions and collaborative activities run smoothly and I rarely have to redirect my students.
Year 2
This year my class is tough. I have procedures in place for stations, transitions and other class activities but my students have a difficult time following them, even though we practice them often. I have a some students on task but some that need redirection during the lesson. The level of my students is all over the place, it ranges from SPED to GT students.
Where do I start?
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This continuum was informed by the following sources with support from McRel International; Raising Blended Learners’ Demonstration Site Implementation; “The Influence of Teaching Beyond Standardized Test Scores: Engagement, Mindsets, and Agency” Ronald F. Ferguson with Sarah F. Phillips, Jacob F. S. Rowley, and Jocelyn W. Friedlander, Harvard University, October, 2015; TNTP Blended Core Teaching Rubric ; The Dallas ISD PL Coaching and Development Rubric
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