Agency target

We are learning about agency. This is a piece of writing that explains what we have been learning about and what agency is.

Agency

In GRI11 2.0 agency is knowing and doing what is best for our learning.

The agency target is made up of 6 parts. Learning pit, learning spaces, striving for excellence, collaboration, managing and designing my own learning and knowing myself as a learner. There is a red layer, orange layer, and a green layer. The red layer means that you have a teacher telling you what to do (teacher guidance), the orange layer means you can do it by yourself but not all the time (managing self). The green layer means you can do what's best for your learning all the time (empowered agentic).

This is the agency target. It looks kinda like a target

The learning pit

The learning pit is when you push yourself into the learning pit. It will be hard at first but if you try your best you can get out. You will go out of your comfort zone and are comfortable with failing. You will challenge yourself and knows that failing is learning in progress.

Learning spaces

In GRi11 2.0 we have to know and do what's best for our learning. This is my learning goal. I need to learn how to choose where I learn, who I learn with and what space I learn in. When I need to do something that uses collaboration I can't go into the quiet space. We have to do what's best for us and our learning task.

Striving for excellence

Sometimes I just talk to my friends and get things done really quickly and rush all my work. That isn't trying very hard and striving for excellence. In GRi11 2.0 we are allowed to talk to our friends but we have to try our best.

Collaboration

Collaboration is when you work with two or more people. It requires you to work together and use teamwork to get the task done. It means that you can collaborate with different people for different purposes.

Managing and designing my own learning

Managing and designing my own learning means that you are completely responsible with your own learning. You can do things yourself without being told by the teacher. You can go through the inquiry process without the teacher giving you instructions.

Knowing myself as a learner

Knowing myself as a learner means that you control what you do with your own learning. You can choose what workshops that you go to not what your best friend goes to. It is completely individual.

The agency target reminds me that i’m still learning to be an agentic learner and reminds me what i’m supposed to do at the time.