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Direct linkNancy Gerzon; Cali Kaminsky – Childhood Education, 2024
Learner agency is necessary for students to consolidate new learning. In environments where teachers and students prioritize learner agency, students actively engage in and take ownership of their learning. Students with agency seek relevant learning experiences, connecting new ideas, academic knowledge, and personal experiences. Integrating the…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Student Centered Learning, Personal Autonomy, Self Management
Shane Safir; Marlo Bagsik; Sawsan Jaber; Crystal M. Watson – Corwin, 2025
Too often, traditional educational models silence students' voices and stifle their genius. "Pedagogies of Voice" invites educators at all levels to reinvent their schools and classrooms into spaces that celebrate student identity, nurture agency, awaken inquiry, and cultivate deep belonging for every child. "Pedagogies of…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Self Concept, Sense of Belonging, Inquiry
Brenner, Charlotte Ann – Smart Learning Environments, 2022
Self-regulated promoting practices foster students' development of metacognition, motivation and strategic action. These underlying learning competencies improve students' academic, social, emotional and career outcomes. Although beneficial, the development of self-regulated promoting practices is challenging, particularly for teacher candidates.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Competency Based Education, Student Development
Download full textArum, Richard; Eccles, Jacquelynne S.; Heckhausen, Jutta; Orona, Gabe A.; von Keyserlingk, Luise; Wegemer, Christopher M.; Wright, Charles E.; Yamaguchi-Pedroza, Katsumi – Postsecondary Value Commission, 2021
In the past decade, public sentiment has shifted increasingly to question the value of a college education. These concerns have diverse causes, including the rising cost and questions about the return on investment of higher education, the growing precariousness and insecurity of middle-class households regarding paying for higher education, and…
Descriptors: College Outcomes Assessment, Undergraduate Students, Student Development, Cognitive Ability
Sarah M. Lacy – Journal of Response to Writing, 2022
In this teaching article I discuss the pedagogical implications of a classroom activity in which students work reflectively with instructor feedback that has been provided to their writing. Using the "comments" feature in Google Docs, instructors create a dialogue with students through "feedback conversations," in which…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Teacher Student Relationship, Dialogs (Language), Writing Instruction
Julia Shields Chrestay; Kyra Atterbury, Contributor; Janet Chance, Contributor; Stecy Mbemba, Contributor; Helena Miller, Contributor; Joe Alberti, Contributor; Sara Caselle, Contributor; Suzanne Cilli, Contributor; Katherine Collier, Contributor; Erica Darken, Contributor; Emily Goedde, Contributor; Rochelle Krauss, Contributor; Bernadine Magee, Contributor; Noga Newberg, Contributor; An Nguyen, Contributor; Candice Smith, Contributor – Penn GSE Perspectives on Urban Education, 2024
Need in Deed's work with Philadelphia public school teachers and their students centers empathy, informed investigation, and civic action. Bolstered by these values and with the support of the My Voice framework and dedicated Need in Deed staff, educators are equipped to co-create authentic classroom communities with their students. In Need in…
Descriptors: Intelligence, Citizen Participation, Public School Teachers, Empathy
National Center on Education and the Economy, 2025
National Center on Education and the Economy (NCEE) studies education systems with strong student performance across the globe to understand what they do, how they do it, and the context and challenges that they face. This brief shares what has been learned about how global leaders think about high school and how they organize time in school…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Time Management, High Schools, Secondary Education
Raabe, Johannes; Bejar, Matthew P.; Bass, Andrew D.; Lauer, E. Earlynn; Erdner, Sara M.; Zakrajsek, Rebecca A. – Quest, 2019
Many students experience difficulties during their graduate education. Scholars have proposed mentoring as one potential strategy to support them. While often assumed to be the sole responsibility of faculty, graduate students are also in a position to provide meaningful mentorship to their peers. Thus, the purpose of the current article is to…
Descriptors: Peer Teaching, Mentors, Sport Psychology, Personal Autonomy
Sardoc, Mitja; White, John – Theory and Research in Education, 2018
Mitja Sardoc's interview with John White discusses a neglected aspect of the educational goal of equipping learners to lead a life of autonomous well-being--trying to ensure that they have adequate options from which to choose worthwhile activities and relationships. Following a brief account of the nature of autonomous well-being, White outlines…
Descriptors: Well Being, Personal Autonomy, Student Development, Values Education
Betts, George T.; Carey, Robin J.; Kapushion, Blanche M. – Prufrock Press Inc., 2016
"Autonomous Learner Model Resource Book" includes activities and strategies to support the development of autonomous learners. More than 40 activities are included, all geared to the emotional, social, cognitive, and physical development of students. Teachers may use these activities and strategies with the entire class, small groups, or…
Descriptors: Learning Activities, Independent Study, Personal Autonomy, Student Development
Lopez, Shane J. – Educational Horizons, 2011
Hope, the ideas and energy for the future, is one of the most potent predictors of the success of the youth. Based on the Gallup Student Poll, an online school-based measure of student hope (and engagement and well-being), half of American students are hopeful. Hopeful students are energetic, full of life. They're able to develop many strategies…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Principals, Student Development, Expectation
Van Bockern, Steve; McDonald, Tim – Reclaiming Children and Youth, 2012
Dream what a school would be like in which the purpose is to meet the needs of children and the larger community so that all can lead a good life. Using the Circle of Courage[TM]--a model grounded in values of deep respect for the dignity of all--the authors of this article outline overarching goals and indicators that can turn this dream into…
Descriptors: Trust (Psychology), Educational Environment, Interpersonal Relationship, Coping
Peer reviewedKorotov, V. M. – Russian Education and Society, 1992
Examines the role of self-directedness or "learning education" in student development. Discusses a study of a group of Moscow (Russia) social science classes. Reports that children who studied a topic as a whole during each class outperformed students for whom the material was divided into separate lessons. Suggests that the holistic…
Descriptors: Curriculum Research, Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Holistic Approach
Peer reviewedGerdes, Eugenia Proctor – Change, 2004
Recently, a young faculty member commented that e-mail and inexpensive long distance rates were hampering her first-year students' development by making it too easy for them to stay in touch with their parents. Similarly, Judith Shapiro, president of Barnard College, argued in her August 22, 2002, New York Times op-ed piece, "Keeping Parents Off…
Descriptors: Higher Education, College Students, Parent Child Relationship, Parent Role
Aufenanger, Stefan – 1985
Teachers have the paradoxical dual responsibility of fostering children's personal autonomy while ensuring that the children follow necessary rules affecting their health, safety, and educational development. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to determine when children should be allowed freedom and when they need regulation, and on occasion…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Behavior Patterns, Elementary Secondary Education, Personal Autonomy
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