Self-Managing Timetables

We got some student voice based around Student Agency at the start of Term Two to see where our students were and what they already knew about it.  Also to see how much choice and input they thought they had into their learning.

Student Voice

It was interesting reading through this.  The students want to have some freedom and choice in their learning.  Talking with the other teachers the students also want to have some structure around what they should be doing.  I will start with a simple timetable that they can fill in with tasks that need to be done.

After discussing and thinking about ways to start the classroom's timetable I decided to start Week 8 of term one.  We had been working on our managing self rubric and knew that this would be important.

I wanted the students have access to their own copy of the Weekly work so they could change, highlight, write on and have ownership of their week.  Here is the first weeks slide:
Week 8 Term 2

The students had to fill in their own timetable making sure that they completed all of the work.
I really just leaped in with the students to give this a go.  We looked at the managing self rubric to make sure they were 'split-screening' and thinking of this as well as content.
I found that some students were very good at their time-management and some clearly only wanted to do what they 'liked' doing.
I had some things to think about over the holidays to make the time-table more effective and make sure the students were completing what they needed to.

Google PD Summit Two Day Workshop April School Holidays

Google Summit Notes and Links

This Summit actually helped us think about what our focus should be and moved us even more in the directions of student agency.

This really became important for me:

'Start with Intro of Ako, goal setting and individual timetables.

Making them feel like they are in charge.'

This is where I could start. My Maths was already heading in this direction. I could continue with this and then build in individual timetables.

Questions:

• How much freedom should I allow them?
• what pre-loading would they need?
• Very important to focus on key competencies...(already had done Relating to Others, this term would be important to focus and self-assess using Managing Self)key competencies

From Good to Great with G-Suite

Slides from summit

What does student agency actually mean?

Students acting for themselves

Agency is the ability to make choices about and take an active role in one’s life path, rather than solely being the product of one’s circumstances. Agency requires the intentionality and forethought to derive a course of action and adjust that course as needed to reflect one’s identity, competencies, knowledge and skills, mindsets, and values.

Self-directed learning Links:  Self-directed Learning

We had a meeting and discussed our change in focus.  See link below:
Notes from meeting 30/5

Ideas and Reflections

Ideas and Technology:  Technology