NZPF Conference: What is Student Agency?
Brian Annan
Mary Wotton
http://infinitylearn.org/
Growing agency as a quality - people who choose to use that agency vs people who do not choose to use it... turning the tap on - sometimes doing things you want them to and some using it to do things you don't want them to.
How do you move these kids into a new space - trust that if use that agency, good things will happen to them?
Children's Learning Maps - showed videos of:
5 year old showing map of herself and what tools / people helps her learn, Asked - what do you need to change about your map to help you learn more. Developing language of learning from early age - school worked on developing a concept of learning. Girl wanted to add her friends because they learn things from eachother.
Joe from Lower Hutt - what excited them about their learning, and what had changed for them in their learning. Found out that when something has changed for children, they don't remember what they were like before. Then can refer back to learning map. talked about how he has helped other people. Capability grew as learned to articulate what helps people with their learning.
Could learning maps be a way of gathering qualitative data from our students - creating a comparison point for self-evaluation?
Including Kids in stragetic decision-making - not just student voice around relationships with teachers, but the big decisions about future learning opportunities. eg Leaders came up with - Active learners - achievement for all kids. Family whanau involvement, 21st learning environment. When asked the kids, they didn't rate learning out front - family and learning in modern learning were out front. Didn't want to be pushed to the front - wanted adults to be beside.
On the charts - the children had put all the diferent ideas that the adults had come up with in their order of priority. Visual. Added their own explanantion and spoke about it.
Challenges we face - children have developed a dependency on teacher direction; teachers have developed a dependency on ensuring that classrooms are calm, quiet, well-behaved, well-organised learning environment; parents have developed a dependency on achievement through tests, national standards, having all their child's needs met.
Are we taking our agency to growing learning around the kids' views?
Professional Reading around: Agency and Control (kids starting to be critical of the teaching, where they didn't used to be, etc)
Passive Teaching and Learning - are we passing on passiveness as leaders?
How much of what we are doing are requirements? How does this help?
What does connected / active look like? Who is going to build databases to measure progress in these areas?
Infinity maps - parents loved as it was a jargon-free conversation. The school is not asking them to be teachers, but to be more active in the learning - learning a different skill-set about how to support their children at home. Student achievement data also went up.
Mary Wotton
http://infinitylearn.org/
Growing agency as a quality - people who choose to use that agency vs people who do not choose to use it... turning the tap on - sometimes doing things you want them to and some using it to do things you don't want them to.
How do you move these kids into a new space - trust that if use that agency, good things will happen to them?
Children's Learning Maps - showed videos of:
5 year old showing map of herself and what tools / people helps her learn, Asked - what do you need to change about your map to help you learn more. Developing language of learning from early age - school worked on developing a concept of learning. Girl wanted to add her friends because they learn things from eachother.
Joe from Lower Hutt - what excited them about their learning, and what had changed for them in their learning. Found out that when something has changed for children, they don't remember what they were like before. Then can refer back to learning map. talked about how he has helped other people. Capability grew as learned to articulate what helps people with their learning.
Could learning maps be a way of gathering qualitative data from our students - creating a comparison point for self-evaluation?
Including Kids in stragetic decision-making - not just student voice around relationships with teachers, but the big decisions about future learning opportunities. eg Leaders came up with - Active learners - achievement for all kids. Family whanau involvement, 21st learning environment. When asked the kids, they didn't rate learning out front - family and learning in modern learning were out front. Didn't want to be pushed to the front - wanted adults to be beside.
On the charts - the children had put all the diferent ideas that the adults had come up with in their order of priority. Visual. Added their own explanantion and spoke about it.
Challenges we face - children have developed a dependency on teacher direction; teachers have developed a dependency on ensuring that classrooms are calm, quiet, well-behaved, well-organised learning environment; parents have developed a dependency on achievement through tests, national standards, having all their child's needs met.
Are we taking our agency to growing learning around the kids' views?
Professional Reading around: Agency and Control (kids starting to be critical of the teaching, where they didn't used to be, etc)
Passive Teaching and Learning - are we passing on passiveness as leaders?
How much of what we are doing are requirements? How does this help?
What does connected / active look like? Who is going to build databases to measure progress in these areas?
Infinity maps - parents loved as it was a jargon-free conversation. The school is not asking them to be teachers, but to be more active in the learning - learning a different skill-set about how to support their children at home. Student achievement data also went up.
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