Teachers enact agency-building instruction through five moves: valuing strengths, fostering autonomy, encouraging initiative, reinforcing growth mindset, and modeling metacognition¶

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Description¶

The brief enumerates five teacher actions for the agency feature of quality instruction: support students to value the strengths and experiences they bring, design instruction that equips students with strategies and language to regulate their learning, encourage initiative through collaborative goal setting, reinforce a growth mindset by highlighting students overcoming challenges through perseverance, and model learning approaches including one's own metacognition.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Teachers must equip students with both the strategies necessary to regulate their learning and the language they will need to do so.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• English learners

Target Learning Goals¶

• Agency, autonomy, growth mindset, and metacognitive capabilities

Related Strategies¶

• Promote a Growth Mindset
• Fostering Self-Advocacy and Self-Determination
• Self-assessment as a formative assessment practice that supports students to act as self-regulated agents
• Supports teachers need to enact formative assessment for English learners
• Reinforce growth mindsets through explicit messages plus implicit classroom practices

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Barbara Jones, Molly Faulkner-Bond, and Jennifer Blitz. (2024). Accelerate English Learner Success: Students Take Ownership Over Their Learning With Formative Assessment. Region 15 Comprehensive Center at WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED673602