Developing Learner Agency: Exploring Design, Complexity, and Systems Thinking
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This event is from Project Zero — confirm details there before registering.
Using PZ ideas from our Agency by Design project, learn about the core capacities necessary to facilitate and lead this kind of learning in your classroom. Try out some of the PZ thinking routines that support the development of those skills and consider how you can integrate these ideas into what you are already doing to enhance student learning.
Details
When
4 sessions, Feb 8 – Mar 7, 2027 · time on the Project Zero website
Format
Location
Online
Duration
Multi-week / Ongoing
Cost
From $355
Event type
Sessions
- Session 1 — Mon, Feb 8, 2027
- Session 2 — Mon, Feb 15, 2027
- Session 3 — Mon, Feb 22, 2027
- Session 4 — Mon, Mar 1, 2027
Who it's for
Topics
Sensitivity to design develops when young people and adults have opportunities to look closely and reflect on the design of objects and systems, explore the complexity of design, and understand themselves as designers of the systems that structure and shape the world.
Using PZ ideas from our Agency by Design project, learn about the core capacities necessary to facilitate and lead this kind of learning in your classroom. Try out some…
Overview
- Consider how teaching that incorporates a sensitivity to design and how this can impact student learning across subjects and grade levels
- Explore these three capacities—looking closely, exploring complexity, and finding opportunity—as well as some of the learning activities for classrooms or other learning settings that help students develop these capacities
Who Should Participate
- Teachers, teacher leaders, and school administrators and leaders (pre-K through to adult learning)
- Museum educators and educators working in informal learning environments
- Instructional coaches and other facilitators of pre-K to adult learning
Descriptions on this page were excerpted from Project Zero's own published materials.