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Develop Learner Agency

Support metacognition, goal setting, and self-reflection routines
Single Course: $100

Type: Online

Duration: 10 hours

  • Self-paced
  • 3-course personalized pathway bundle: $275
  • Option for continuing education credits with UCSD: $150
  • Digital Promise micro-credential Learn More

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 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

  • 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

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