If students are to choose how and what to learn, they need to respond critically toward an ongoing dialog, an exchange of thought.
Tag: agency
Service programs are experiences of entrepreneurship and are rocket launches to learning.
What are the keys to the Force that unites us in this human endeavour?
A reflection at any point during a unit inquiry can be a source of action in MYP.
The tug of war helps us visualize our own agency in our schools.
The first time I left the inquiry questions entirely in the students’ hands.
If our message is of learning as a recursive, agentic process, how might the medium create this understanding for us?
There is a bridge between teaching and learning made explicit in the IB World through the framework Approaches to Teaching and Learning.
With the recent and visible crisis of trust involving Facebook, Thomas Friedman in his NYT…
This journey toward becoming the aspirational self is the fulcrum of a self-directed individual. Self-directed people are not forced to learn through the mandate of an evaluation of performance. They are not mechanical in their response to students’ learning needs. They are craftspeople, always honing the craft of teaching through emotionally-intelligent responses to the day to day events in their classrooms.
The Learner's Toolbox 