Disscuss:
1. The nature of learner agency
Why is learner agency important
2. The mutually benefical relationship between the learner and their environment in “agentic engagement
3.the role of educator
What is the learner agency?
What is your ‘image of the child
Learner Agency &the PYP
Why is learner agency important?
What is the reciprocal relationship between the learner and their environment in “agentic engagement ”?
Interrelated aspects of engagement
Provide Choice
Is co-constructed with the learners
“The pre-school child deserves to know why the room is organized the way it is,why there are “choice time “”,and why there are set times for “group meetings”.Relevance begins with the rational for educational choices affecting the school life of the student ”-Heidi Hayes Jacob
Easy access to a range of materials
Provides for responsibility and decision making
Provides authentic tasks
Invitations to play and engage with concepts
Open Environment -outdoor environment
What is the role of the educator?
I believe a teacher’s task is to stand by children’s sides and with thoughtful invtervention when needed,promote the quality of relations children readily have with things around them and what they are doing ”-Vea Vecchi
Modeling
Honouring student voice
Facilitating and supporting
Documentation of learning
What is our role?
The teacher strives to position students as authors of their learning;to create opportunities for students’ personal interests and experiences to be interwoven 交织，穿插with instruction to advance students’ agency in collective meaning-making and knowledge creation-Kumpulainen&Lipponen,2010
Agency&Control-The Creative Struggle
Teachers need to balance their instructional教学support with classroom management,Which also entails 意味着social control of students-McNeil 1986
To resolve 解决these negotiations in generative 生成的way,the teacher and students need to master and creatively overcome a contradiction 矛盾between agency and control-Rainio,2008,2010;Rainio &Hilppo,in press
human agency and structure are not opposed 反对but in fact presuppose 臆断，提前假定 each other;structures shape people’s practices, and conversely 反过来，people’s practices constitute 构成（and reproduce）structure-Sewell,1992
