Tag: teacher agency

Covid and the Liberatory Potentials of Local Knowledge: Disrupting School Expectations for Knowledge Production by Vanessa Anthony-Stevens and Daniel D. Liou

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As schools shut down during the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, Vanessa met with five new teachers as part of a research project to learn about their preparation to teach in rural schools in the Pacific Northwest. Vanessa posed the question, what surprised you most about teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic? One teacher, Ms. Tolson
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Reflectiveness, Adaptivity, and Support: How Teacher Agency Promotes Student Engagement. By Kristy Cooper Stein, Tara Kintz, and Andrew Miness

Image by flickr user Maria Belhassan While student engagement is essential to actualizing powerful instruction and authentic learning, engaging students remains challenging for teachers. Persistent student disengagement may not reflect teachers’ lack of attention to engagement. In fact, teachers we spoke with seemed to overwhelmingly recognize engagement as vital to students’ learning. Disengagement also does not
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