Agency Explanation in our classroom

Definition of agency

This year in our class Grill 2.0, we’ve got an agency target on:

Learning spaces, Striving for Excellence, Collaboration, Managing and Designing my own Learning and Knowing Yourself as a Learner to help us develop agency. Agency is when we all make our own learning decisions that are best for us as learners. It enables us to know what our goals are and what we’ve achieved. The agency target is like a dartboard for you to aim your dart at to see what you need to work on to develop your agency.

Striving for Excellence

Striving For excellence is where you try your best at a task even if you don’t know but you still have a go. It is always giving your best effort.

For me Striving for Excellence, I would be near the red section because sometimes  I like to rush through my own learning and talk with my friends and don’t put in an honest effort.

Collaboration

Collaboration is about working as a team, which means you have to collaborate with each other. It is also about choosing to work with the right people for the learning task. Some people find it hard to collaborate with others which means you would be in the red section which is fine cause you have a goal to work on.

I would put myself on the green section because I like working as a team and building on other people’s ideas. I listen carefully to other people and give them feedback. Sometimes you would be off task when you’re in your group and not listening to other people’s ideas which means you're near the orange section.

Learning pit

One of my favourite ones is the learning pit. The Learning Pit is about how you cope with challenging tasks. It is about being confident to fail and take risks.

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Usually you're not in the learning pit if you say for e.g. “oh no this too hard I will just get someone else to do it for me. It also means you’re not falling in the learning pit, you’re just crossing the learning pit. If you do believe in yourself and that you can give it a go, you’re in the learning pit and trying hard to get to the other end and reach the top.

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Learning Spaces

Learning Spaces is in our classroom in GRi11 2.0 where we have beanbags, couches, hammocks, furniture, wheely chairs and heaps more which are Learning spaces. As a class we’re very lucky to have these resources in our classrooms but we do have to remember to respect it because we came up with the idea to have an environmental classroom like this.

Usually in learning spaces you need to work on different tasks to make us great and successful learners. You might need to learn to not talk to your best mates in some spaces cause that will distract your learning and your mates learning too.