Personalized Learning and Student Agency

Explore ways to move students towards learner-centered collaboration and independent practice.

Utilize master teachers as models for optimal teaching, with a focus on shifting practice to promote active and autonomous student learning.

Consider how support structures for older students could be amended to promote entrepreneurial and independent learning.

Seek creative ways to include flexibility in the achievement of student learning goals.

B2 - DP 10a : The school investigates the feasibility of providing additional release time to students within the current model to provide for a better balance of academic and non-academic elements of the programme.

DP-C3-Practice 3.5: Teachers adapt learning experiences over the course of the DP such that students more fully develop the ability to, and an awareness of how they can, be actively responsible for their own learning, particularly in relation to those internal and external assessments which require the independent development of research questions.

DP-C3-Practice 3.10: Teachers to consider how they could expand their differentiation strategies through the use of different tasks, or the development of intentional approaches to in-class groupings.