Blog Post 3: Student Agency
- Opportunities and experiences to foster a growth mindset and build student agency:
- Create a safe and supportive learning environment
- Work together with students and their families, have mutual respect, build positive relationships
- Set learning goals, model learning strategies, meet students where they are and help them learn at their pace
- Project and interest based learning
- Community service or work experience that students select or create
These
are all strategies I have found that work well for me. During our honeybee PBL
experience, one strategy that was important was meeting students where they
are/were and supporting them at their pace. Some of the informational articles
were harder to read than other articles. With this in mind, I monitored student’s
progress and gave assistance when needed. Allowing choice in student’s
culminating activity (PSA) was also significant as it made their presentation
important to them.
Hi Taylor,
ReplyDeleteYou shared several strategies for how we can help foster a growth mindset and build student agency. Which of these strategies work best for you? Within your most recent pbl unit, what specific issues arose with student agency and how were you able to work with students to foster agency with their independent work?
Sincerely,
Dawn
I am so happy that your honeybee project worked well for you! I would love to apply community service to one of my projects because it is so important for students to learn to give back to their community.
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