Cultivating a Culture of Attendance
April 10, 2023
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Resource Spotlight: Student Agency
The topic of student agency covers a wide range of topics related to the de-centering of the classroom and subverting traditional power dynamics between students and instructors. Some topics covered by this resource include:
- involving students in the design of learning experiences and course policies;
- creating opportunities for students to contribute to their field;
- giving students their own space on the public web to work;
- designing learning experiences to transform the role of the instructor to facilitator instead of the authority over learning;
- recognizing and harnessing the power of student choice as a motivator and way to engage students more deeply;
- recognizing students as unique individuals with important contexts and experiences to bring to a classroom community.
Featured PSU Resources
USNH Domains
Through ET&S, faculty and students can request their own website and URL for building out spaces for projects and clases.
Design Forward: Care & Equity
The Care & Equity module of Design Forward (the CoLab’s faculty development platform), provides additional resources and readings for those who want to think more deeply about how the spaces they design for education can best support learners and promote student agency.
Related CoLab Resources
Students Talk With You About Teaching Series
February 16, 2022
Our series, Students Talk With You About Teaching provides an opportunity for open conversation between
Student Reviews, Courses with Approaches to Innovative Learning
October 23, 2019
My name is Rebecca Roberts and I’m a senior CoLab affiliate here at PSU.
Enacting student partnership as though we really mean it: Some Freirean principles for a pedagogy of partnership
August 23, 2019
Article for upcoming discussion on Student Agency Peters, J., & Mathias, L. (2018). Enacting student partnership
Are They Empowered Yet?: Opening Up Definitions of Critical Pedagogy
August 20, 2019
Article for upcoming discussion on Student Agency Composition Forum 29, Spring 2014 http://compositionforum.com/issue/29/ Link to
Fine & Blurry Lines: Situating Students in Digital Work
August 20, 2019
Presentation by Martha Burtis at ATI 2019 Link to Video
Related Videos
Students Talk With You About Empathetic Teaching
Students Talk With You About Teaching Series: Open Educational Resources
Students Talk With You About Teaching Series: Group Work and Project-Based Classes
Students Talk with You about Teaching
Showing Up: Cultivating an Attendance Culture at PSU
ACE Framework: Student Design & Choice
Reading List
Richmond, E. (2014, October 24). When Students Take Over the Classroom. The Atlantic.
Stewart, M. (2014, August 21). Designing for Emergence: The Role of the Instructor in Student-Centered Learning. Hybrid Pedagogy.
Watters, A. (2021). The Web We Need to Give Students.
Authorizing Students’ Perspectives: Toward Trust, Dialogue, and Change in Education on JSTOR. (n.d.). Retrieved February 13, 2023.
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