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I am thinking of student agency from the viewpoint of a teacher. I was especially interested in the articles about mindset and failure as learning.  I, like many of my colleagues, find that my students prefer strict guidelines and project requirements.  The more leeway, I offer, they less engaged my students become...perhaps because they are afraid of failure.  From their point of view, success is difficult if the expectations are not the same for everyone at the same time; however, I see it as incredibly important that students do create their own projects and products to demonstrate their thinking and understanding.  I look forward to continuing to help my students embrace the "unknown" of inquiry instead of "prepare for the test."

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I am thinking of student agency from the viewpoint of a teacher. I was especially interested in the articles about mindset and failure as learning.  I, like many of my colleagues, find that my students prefer strict guidelines and project requirements.  The more leeway, I offer, they less engaged my students become...perhaps because they are afraid of failure.  From their point of view, success is difficult if the expectations are not the same for everyone at the same time; however, I see it as incredibly important that students do create their own projects and products to demonstrate their thinking and understanding.  I look forward to continuing to help my students embrace the "unknown" of inquiry instead of "prepare for the test."

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I am thinking from a teacher viewpoint and how to increase student choice. The ten suggestions on how to incorporate student choice in our classrooms can be used fairly easily but student choice also involves a mind shift in our students. They are also used to getting their information, learning from, teachers. How do we get them to also understand what they learn or can learn on their own through their own choice is just as valuable if not more so? As well, how do I assess and keep to my curriculum without some guidelines?

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I am thinking from the viewpoint of a teacher and what caught my eye was Embracing Failure. When we give students agency, that gives them the opportunity to try new approaches to a problem. I have many students who are paralyzed by their failure and cannot move on and make another attempt; approach the problem from a different angle. I have also had many emails and meetings with parents this week (end of quarter!). My questions are how can we get parents to focus on the process and not on the grade? How can we get the students to buy into a process where their first attempt may not be successful and they have to try something else to make it work? How do we encourage students to think rather than just look up or ask for "the right answer"?

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I am thinking from a student mind and what strategies I need to learn how to be successful in the real world.  How can my brain be trained on  realizing what learning mindsets and learning strategies and habits that I have in both home and school.  Is it, I am just going to do work to get done, pass, and move on?  Or will my learning be meaningful?  I think it is up to us teachers to guide students to have a growth mindset,  self-efficacy, have a sense of belonging and that they are relevant.  We need to guide students in the sense that ALL can be successful!

The last paragraph says it all: "How can we best prepare students for a world that will require more of them? The most important resource in education reform is the learner’s mind. We need to re-ignite the hunger for learning that many students lose along the way. Explicit and embedded work on Learning Mindsets and Learning Strategies & Habits puts students in the driver seat of learning and gives them direction and tenacity to chart their paths to success."  Let's start with changing our Mindset!  The tools and technologies are their to support the teacher, not to replace them!

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The below Anonymous post is mine. I was not logged into Padlet when I wrote it!

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I am thinking from a shift from assuming that students inherently know how to question, think, and analyze to the perspective that theses are indeed skills that must be taught. I watched the ProjectZero video on Visible Thinking Strategies and it struck a chord with me and how I see my students. It is frustrating for me and for the students when they seem so dependent on me for answers. They will not ask clarifying questions, but instead will ask me to GIVE them the answers. I pose guided questions, but still there are some students who will ask questions before they have made any attempt to find out answeres on their own. The video was intriguing....perhaps the solution is really that simple. Students truly need to be taught HOW to think. We as educators can give them that tool.

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I am thinking from a teacher viewpoint of how to increase student ownership of the learning process. Students are invested and more engaged in understanding a new topic if they have some control over the learning process; including pace and choice of assignments. A question I have is how to effectively leverage the blended environment to support this goal. Based on some of the readings and videos I watched, some new ideas I have include a flipped classroom. One video included a math teacher who provided the direct instruction through a video that the students watched prior to class. The class was then split into 3 groups: those needing additional instruction, students who could practice what they learned, and those students who were ready for an extension. Another idea is to revisit assessments....emphasizing learning as an ongoing process and providing students time to reflect on their strengths and growth areas.

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I am thinking of experiential learning and asking kids to use their voice, specifically allowing students to experience failure in order to learn and do better from the view point of the student. I think that this sounds scary and uncomfortable. Not all students are comfortable putting them self out there especially if their is a risk of failure. Perseverance is something that students are lacking. The thought of persevering to just experience failure could be defeating to some students. A question I have from this viewpoint is will my grade reflect my failure in the experience if in the end I learned from it?  Some new ideas about this topic is helping students to experience failure as a positive thing to learn and grow versus how it is mostly perceived as negative.  Failing Forward.  New questions: How to shift students thinking in this area?

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I am thinking of the shift of coming to school to "get the information" versus now having information surplus at our fingertips from the view of the student. Students no longer need to come to school to hear what they can read and watch at home or from any location. A question I have from this viewpoint is, How can make better use of my time at school with more interactions, discussions, experiences and projects? Some new ideas I have are taking away the delivery of the content in the class and leaving that to the students and providing more experiences to the students to truly understand the content. Three ways to teach: Experiential Learning, Student Voice and Embracing Failure.

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I am thinking of visible thinking strategies from the point of view of the teacher. I think establishing visible thinking strategies and routines would be incredibly valuable.  Students would have a repertoire of questions to help them figure out meanings, connections, and creating when they are faced with new texts or new ideas. How do I establish these routines so students utilize them meaningfully and how can I assess "thinking'.  Will students be able to say "I read it but did not understand it" - or at some point can they become  accountable? Or would this be a way to differentiate - those that can demonstrate thinking and connection/reflection can move on , those that need teacher guidance do a walk through of the strategies and text with the teacher? Or video?

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I am thinking of the shift from personalization FOR students to personalization BY students from the view of a teacher.  I think I would love my students to be more involved in their own learning and would allow creativity. They can take more control of their own learning this way.
A question I have form this viewpoint is, How can I give my students this independence when I have to follow a  specific curriculum?
Some new ideas I have might be to change the way I assess. But how can I make sure my students are as prepared to move on the next level?