Learner Choice, Learner Voice: A Teacher’s Guide to Promoting Agency in the Classroom

by Ryan L. Schaaf, Becky Zayas, Ian Jukes

Learner Choice, Learner Voice offers fresh, forward-thinking supports for teachers creating an empowered, student-centered classroom. Learner agency is a major topic in today’s schools, but what does it mean in practice, and how do these practices give students skills and opportunities they will need to thrive as citizens, parents, and workers in our ever-shifting climate? Showcasing authentic activities and classrooms, this book is full of diverse instructional experiences that will motivate your students to take an agile, adaptable role in their own learning. This wealth of pedagogical ideas – from specific to open-ended, low-tech to digital, self-expressive to collaborative, creative to critical – will help you discover the transformative effects of providing students with ownership, agency, and choice in their learning journeys.

274 pages, Paperback

Published June 16, 2022

Reviews

[S · Rating 3 out of 5]

I believe in the message of this book and believe it can have value for teachers who are open to these ideas, but new to them. I think some parts were stronger than others. A highlight was “The list” which had some great ideas, though other ideas were commonplace things that teachers do. The rest of the book has some highlight-able ideas, but overall could’ve delivered a little more strongly on the potential of the ideas and beliefs of these authors.