This successful experience with the kindergarten students promotes the “agency” and helps to understand what it means to “raise your voice”, “act”, “solve problems”.
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Learner agency in the PYP exhibition
This article talks about the journey of a Primary Years Programme exhibition and the role of student agency in designing inquiry and research.
Listening to learning: Agency in the early years
This article is based on an example of listening to learning within a pre-kindergarten classroom and how teachers tuning into student voices helped to shape the direction of our inquiry into the transdisciplinary theme of ‘How we express ourselves’.
Student agency designs learning space
This article talks about Primary Years Programme students inquiring into the physical and virtual public spaces. As part of their action, students chose to design the mother tongue space for the library.
Supporting learner agency in the early years
This article illustrates the importance of listening to students’ voices and the powerful learning that can happen when allowing them take the lead.
How a culture of student leadership can foster learner agency
This article explores how students took ownership of the Model United Nations (MUN) experience in the primary division as a going further from their unit under ‘How we organize ourselves’.