Fostering Learner Agency
Self-paced
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Full course description
2 PD Hours
This session highlights and promotes English language learners' voices and choices during integrated language and content instruction. Participants will do the following:
- Engage in tasks that demonstrate and define agency
- Explore how choice boards promote learner autonomy through selections of topics, processes, and/or projects
- Collaborate to create a choice board
Facilitators present the rationale and research behind promoting learner agency and share tools and resources to foster learner agency in virtual and in-person classes.
Upon completion of this professional development activity/course, you will be able to:
- Provide a more reciprocal power structure in the adult ESOL classroom that benefits English learners by:
-Helping learners focus on their autonomy and agency
-Increasing learners' engagement with an investment in their learning process
-Strengthening learners' motivation and persistence
IPQs Addressed: 4, 5
Online Facilitated
This course is currently available for program-based PD tailored to your specific needs. Please contact Dori McCormack at dmccormack@edc.org for more information.