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Supporting learner agency (Students’ perspectives on examples of agency …
Supporting learner agency
How Supporting learner agency
might support the capabilities
Design inquiries using local and global context
support students to initiate and engage in their own inquiries
promote student reflection and action in response to their learning
Utilize assessment to inform learning and teaching.
provide feedback to others and feedforward to next steps
support the capability of students in assessing their own learning
Students’ perspectives on examples of agency
(The American International School of Kuwait )
Planning their own day
Students had chance to write their own day plans.
Assessment of prior knowledge
Students identified what they already know and can do before a unit starts.
Making decisions together
Students identified problems, ideas, questions and made decisions together.
Choice and trust
Students shared the importance of choice and trust in feeling agentic.
Creativity Thursday
Students decided when, how, where and what to learn on that day.
Setting up the classroom
Students decided how the classroom could be set up to support their learning.
Three-way conferences
Students reflected that the approach to three-way conferences.
Teacher’s perspective on examples of agency
The American International School of Kuwait
Learning from each other
Teacher built a culture to encourage students learning from each other.
Learning plans
Teacher made plan base on personal learning goals.
Shifting from mandatory to optional
Teacher let students make them optional as much as possible.
Supporting student initiatives
Teacher supported students’ initiatives, both inside and outside of the classroom.
Assessment
Teacher did assessment with students.
Teacher transparency
Teacher shared the goals to develop student agency with her class.
Learning about learning
Teacher encouraged students to learn about learning in the first month.
How Supporting learner agency
connects to aspects of the PYP
Assessment
Action
Learner agency
Inquiry