On Target?
Agency, Authority and identity
Question 1 • Question 2 • Question 3
Question #3
How do classroom activities help students connect their personal identities with their mathematical experiences, so they can see themselves as mathematical sense makers?
Drag the teaching descriptions on to the target. Put the ones most central the TRU Dimension: Agency, Authority and Identity to Content toward the center of the target.
Agency, Ownership, and Identity
The extent to which students are provided opportunities to “walk the walk and talk the talk” – to contribute to conversations about mathematical ideas, to build on others’ ideas and have others build on theirs – in ways that contribute to their development of agency (the willingness to engage), their ownership over the content, and the development of positive identities as thinkers and learners.