{"id":9908,"date":"2020-06-25T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-25T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/?p=9908"},"modified":"2020-06-22T17:05:20","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T21:05:20","slug":"how-student-agency-can-ease-the-pain-of-remote-learning-and-teaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coreeducationllc.com\/blog2\/how-student-agency-can-ease-the-pain-of-remote-learning-and-teaching\/","title":{"rendered":"How Student Agency Can Ease the Pain of Remote Learning and Teaching"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Writing for EdSurge, Chelsea Waite recently explored an approach to remote learning that has resulted in extremely high levels of student engagement at a time when some schools and districts are seeing half or less of their students participating in online instruction. Excerpts of the piece appear below:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What\u2019s behind this rare level of engagement during such a traumatic and trying time? One factor is learner agency. As it turns out, nurturing students\u2019 abilities to contribute and lead can have big payoffs as schools face ongoing uncertainty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agency is generally defined as an important learning outcome<\/a>, characterized by the ability for students to set and pursue their own learning goals. It is an ingredient for their success through college and careers, and it is also a frequently cited goal among educators working to reimagine teaching and learning. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in addition to being an important outcome, learner agency may also be an undervalued resource for schools, especially when they have less control over how to structure students\u2019 time and attention. The impacts of COVID-19 are highlighting at least three ways in which schools can benefit from nurturing students\u2019 agency:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1. Benefits to student engagement and learning<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Teachers can:<\/p>\n\n\n\n