clare greenup agency and ownership

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Agency and Ownership

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Giving Power to Student LearningClare Greenup

Curriculum Coordinator

Thursday 27th February 2014

The 3rd Cultures of Thinking in Schools ConferenceMasada College

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What educational benefits would emerge if I used the students’ challenges, mistakes or barriers encountered on their learning journey to enhance their understanding of themselves as a thinker and learner?

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“Aren’t you really talking about building

Agency and Ownership?”

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I used to think…

Ownership was all about OpportunitiesStructures and Routines to give enough guidance

balanced with enough latitude for choice and scope.Agency? Enough smiling and nodding – go find a

dictionary!

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“Children should leave school with a sense that if they act, and act strategically, they can accomplish their goals. I call this feeling a sense of agency…..

the perception that the environment is responsive to our actions… many researchers argue that

agency is a fundamental human desire.”Choice Words – Peter H Johnston, 2004.

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“… position the child as a strategic learner.”

“I weave myself into a narrative in which I am the kind of person who encounters and solves

problems.”Choice Words, Peter H Johnston, 2004

Instilling and enabling self belief.

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It’s all about the conversation and the language

“You know what I heard you doing just now..?”Where are you planning to go on from here?”You really have me interested in …”Which part are you sure about and which part are you

not so sure about?”Talk me through the choices you made here.”

INSIGHT – “What makes you say that?” Visible Thinking has Agency at it’s core.

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What type of thinking are you doing?

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Name your learning

Pulling apart learningprocess

What is ‘good’ learning?-Learning that was new not regurgitated-Learning that they owned

OWNERSHIP

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What is their passion?What are they interested in?Bliss projects.Driven by their own curiosityRewards don’t work AudienceOutreach

Field of Study

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Simon Sinek

http://whatedsaid.wordpress.com/2013/05/03/process-vs-product/

How can I pass over power?

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Wikispaces –TimetogogreenSharing with the world their research and viewpoints on environmental concerns

Real Life Blogging – ownership of response, becoming a ………… learning community

Kids Curriculum Day

Student Led Committees

Learning from my own mistakes …

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Why did it go wrong?-Language-Relationship

How can I develop better/more effective peer teaching experiences that will give power to the students (ownership) and build agency (my learning environment is responsive to my actions)..?

I used to think…

Ownership was all about OpportunitiesStructures and Routines to give enough guidance

balanced with enough latitude for choice and scope.Agency? Who knew?

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Now I think… or wonder … or grapple with..

‘positioning’ a child to own their learning experienceWhat I thought would be all about OPPORTUNITIES

turns out to be more about RELATIONSHIP/INTERACTIONS

and

LANGUAGE

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Power is not something I can bestow. Each child had to come to a personal realisation/ watershed

moment/dawning revelation (facilitated by the way I talked to them, my questioning and the open playing field we created) that they knew themselves and that they had within them the power to accomplish learning and guide their

path.

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BEFORE AFTER

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RELATIONSHIP

Meant getting on withthe kids, being liked/

respected, comfortablelearning with me

RELATIONSHIP

Positioning the child into a place where they can action reasoned power and positioning myself beside them for the ride

Where to from here….

MINDSET – DR CAROL DWECK

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Creating Agency!!

“I weave myself into a narrative in which I am the kind of person who encounters and solves problems.”

Choice Words, Peter H Johnston, 2004

My goals for 2014-Keep going with Language and Interactions that instill and build Agency and Ownership in my classroom-Build in understandings on the brain so that my students can be growth mindset learners!

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