Research Circle Day 2

The structure for Research Circle Day 2 - May 2018

1. Entry Ticket – to give you time to think about and document what has become a bit clearer since last time + any actions you’ve taken to progress your own understanding of learner agency. We have discovered from our visits that it might be helpful to provide time during our research circle for documenting as life is so hectic in your schools. 
2. Triad Discussion – to share the above and make sense of our learning progress
3. Offer of a mini-research booklet to support you to analyse your in-school investigations (including methods involving students as co-researchers)
4. Wrestling with the relationship between student voice and agency – and creating our own continua.
5. Practical planning for Terms 2 and 3.

Pre-investigation

Reflection before our Term 2 Learner Agency Research Circle Day

1.  what was revealed in your Learning Conversations with a) students and b) teachers for a summary for the research?

2.  what are you noticing are strengths in your context and what are some challenges or tensions you’ve uncovered?

3.  what question or wondering did you decide to investigate further/next? 

4.  who will you partner with to undertake this research? 

5.  what would benefit others for you to post?  what action/s to continue your learning and investigations will you commit to before our next day together?


PLEASE BRING ALONG

Any documents or artefacts that illustrate what learner agency currently looks like in your school. This can help to create useful continua that grow from where you are now. 

We also have a reading on student voice – this is attached in case you have time to peruse before next week. 

Resources

Day 1 Resources
The Explorer
Rationale and Evidence for Student Agency reading

Day 2 Resources
Readings
Michael Fielding - Student Voice- Patterns of Partnership and Demands of Deep Democracy

Other Readings
Student Voice - Transforming Relationships
Motivation, Engagement and Student Voice