AGENCY

1. What is it?

2. What would it look like in our classrooms? Our school?

3. Agency is JD's new favourite word...

3.1. What wife will he find that will explain this one to us?

3.1.1. How many wives are there?

4. Is there such an idea such as collaborative agency?

5. Are agency and action similar? Different?

6. Our workshop with Kath Murdoch last academic year was around building agency within leaners

7. How is it different to what we are doing now?

8. How can we promote agency within our students?

8.1. Provide opportunities for them to take the lead during inquiries?

9. Agency is the next 'trend' that we educators need to worry about.

10. What does it look like in different year groups?

10.1. Students planning UOI with teachers in Year 6.

11. 'Learner agency' will feature prominently as part of the PYP Review to be released in 2018

12. Synonymous with self-directed learning, agency is about empowering learners with the capacity to take ownership of their own learning

13. How do you plan for it?

14. Ask students for their perspectives.

15. create provocations that require or engage student agency

16. Involve students in decision making.

17. How will this look in planning? Is it action?

18. Connect  -  Empowered learners need to have agency to learn