Develop Learner Agency
Course Overview
Explore how to build learner agency by supporting their metacognition, goal-setting, and self-reflection routines and by focusing on the learning process over product and emphasizing a growth mindset.
COURSE MODULES
Modules will include videos, lessons, reflection activities, checks for understanding, additional resources, and a performance task to apply what you learn.
| MODULE | WHAT YOU’LL BE ABLE TO DO |
|---|---|
| Module 1 Introduction |
Describe personalized learning, why it is important, and how learner agency makes learning more personal. |
| Module 2 Empower learners |
Develop a plan for building learner agency by providing options and the necessary scaffolds |
| Module 3 Encourage goal setting & reflection |
Develop a goal setting and reflecting strategy for your learning environment |
| Module 4 Highlight the process of thinking |
Use metacognitive strategies to model thinking processes and have learners think about and share their thinking |
| Module 5 Reflection |
Reflect on practices |
Course Competencies
Empower learners
I help learners build their agency, determine priorities, and develop skills to choose between competing interests and persist through challenges.
Encourage goal setting & reflection
I develop learners’ abilities to set goals, self-reflect, and take action.
Highlight the process of thinking
I use metacognitive strategies to model my thinking process and have learners think about and share their thinking.
Course Enrollment
Enrollment includes:
- 1 year of access to the course in the Thinkific platform
- Access to an online community of learner-centered educators.
- Access to team members available to answer questions within 48 hours.
- Certificate of completion upon finishing course
Questions? Email learning@learnercentered.org
Course Credit Options
MICRO-CREDENTIALS
Earn a Digital Promise micro-credential—a digital certification verifying your competence in a specific skill or set of skills.
CONTINUING EDUCATION UNITS
Upon approval of your performance task receive 1.5 quarter units of post-baccalaureate, salary-scale applicable credit offered by UCSD.
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