Webinar with Karen Boyes

Student agency webinar by : Karen Boyes

Today we had webinar presentation by Karen Boyes on how to increase student's agency. It was a great presentation as I took aboard lot of strategies that I’m going to implement inside my classroom to further develop student agency. The following are few things that I enjoyed most during the webinar.

Ubiquity - learning is  any time, anywhere, any person, any pace and learning happens all the time.   Any person and pace

Future of our children is always changing. Thomas Frey 2 billion jobs eliminated by 2030. 

Citizens of future have to create their own jobs

40% of 5 year old will be self employed when they leave school.

For us teachers we need to: 

Facilitate , motivate, give feedback, support children

Teach them to be multi skilled, inquistic learners who can juggle things

Teachers need to learn to set back and let children take responsibility of their learning.

Student agency:

The power to act

Know their abilities-strengths and learning gaps

Many children look at their can dos and not can’t do.

Independent

Self directed

Take increasing responsibility for learning

Are you children in class:

Learning to learn

Making mistakes is a key part of learning

Being clear of their learning

Love the saying: to get easy you have to go through the hard.

FAIL

F- first

A-Attempt

I-In 

L-learning

Students in classroom are scared to make mistakes. Struggles makes children strong. 

Types of mistakes:

Aha moment mistakes

Stretch mistakes- I'm going to push myself to attain goal and ok to make mistake.

Sloop mistakes

High stakes mistakes- students ok to make a go learning opp is high

The learning pit teachers need to keep students out of the pit

Habits of mind

Thinking disposition art -    

We want students to be -Self managing and self monitoring and self modifying-

Self managing   

Control impulses for action

Clarify outcomes

Delay premature conclusions

Gather relevant data

Draw on past knowledge

Imagine and create & innovative

THE KEY IS TO EXPLICITLY TEACH SKILLS.

Teach children to wait  use the phrase eg in a moment but not quite yet……..

If you were following these instructions correctly wait to answer however you take time think to answer.at would you be doing?

What I am interested in is not that you are the first

Think pair share

How can you teach your students self monitoring?

Children need to think about their own behaviours biases and beliefs

Have sufficient knowledge to know what works for them

Conscious metacognitive strategies to monitor their effectiveness

Can generate alternative plans of action

Self modifying

Reflect on own experiences

Open to more learning

Admits they are more to learning

Continuously stretching children in their language use rich language. Don't let them use the same word in their writing increase their vocabs

Put the words they use the most  on  www. Visualthesaurus.com

Scanmarking -example there 6 errors in the page please find it

Check ups - check list all your work

Other ideas to develop students agency:

TCI- teacher group, collaborative learner, independent learner

Thinking buddies- talk aloud to your buddy or think to your buddy

Get rid of your buddy and you think alone

poster in the wall that says here is what you are suppose to do-  look at facebook

Look at checklist to see what you are suppose to do.

I really like the way you listen to another person, 

I really like that you don’t give up

I really like you trying really hard

Have clear rubrics and criteria children know

visual posters on are you struck in classroom

  

 

21 century- focus on thinking
Ubiquity- Learning can be any time and place anywhere.
The future is continually changing

Thomas Frey-2 billion jobs will be replaced by 2030

Citizens of future will need to be self-employed.
Multi Skills needed, juggle
teacher role has changed: motivate, facilitate
Student agency- they have power over their own learning
Know strengths and gaps.
Independent
Self-directed
Increasing responsibilty for learning
Teacher needs to step back and let children work out the problem
We want children to be thinkers and not just resort to rehearsed solution
Making mistakes is part of learning
Have failure conferences- what went wrong- so what now
The struggle makes you strong

Self-managing:

control impulses
clarity about outcomes
Delay premature conclusions
Gather relevant data
Imagine, create,innovate

The key is to EXPLICITLY TEACH thinking DISPOSITIONS

Wait time- 7-10 seconds: "in a moment but not quite yet."
"if you were following instructions correctly-what would you do"
Thnk-pair-share
 Self-monitoring  
think about own behaviours,biases and beliefs.
Ruldolf Steiner-9 yr old crises

conscious metacognitive strategies to monitor their effectiveness.

Have class mascots that they can talk. Teddy talks back with answer.
Scaffold independence in activities;
Teacher
Collaborating
Independent