This episode completes our exploration of the role of agency, for both teachers and students, as a component of constructivist teaching. With a focus on WHY to do it, HOW to do it, and WHAT stands in the way of doing it, we start and end by asking, why is this so fucking scary for the system?

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Episode 15: Agency, Achievement, more Agency, More Achievement, and so on…

Jesse Bastarache returns to the podcast to talk about her theatre class for students with substantial learning needs. By acknowledging and encouraging their agency, she helps them build on their performance skills and achieve beyond all expectation. Is it really that simple? Yes- with the energy and commitment of a gifted teacher, it is!

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Episode 14: No One’s the Boss of Me, continues the exploration of constructivism, but through the overlapping lenses of agency, fear and me. Using my experiences as a student, a teacher, and a teacher of teachers to explore the role of agency in learning, this episode looks at what happens when we throw off the boot of fear and control, and embrace agency for ourselves and our students.

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