Student's Agency and Self-Efficacy
Student's Agency and Self-Efficacy
Agency or self-efficacy or we may
call it self-concept; they are not novice in the field
of pedagogy. 100 years ago there were experiments in Winnetka, Illinois, USA
on mastery based learning and
they saw great results, but they wouldn't able to scale it because it
was logistically difficult. The teacher had to provide different worksheets to every
student, based on-demand assessments to
carter the need of every learner.
Now a day, after the easy access of modern gadgets and internet,
if the teacher is depriving a learner from mastering the concept and not
exercises his agency, I believe the teaching community is committing heinous crime. This is all based on the
idea that if we let our learners tap into their potential by mastering
concepts, by being on the idea to exercise agency over their learning.
Being an ESL Teacher for past 18 years, I reached to the hypotheses
that the students best learn when the play with the target language on their
own pace. Recently in my English class, I assigned an on-line writing task and
one of students took
127 minutes to accomplish that task. Though it is not easy
for a teacher to become guide on the side rather than the sage on the stage. But we have to decide in the best interest of learners and create students agency.
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