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Personalising professional learning for teachers and schools, led by Janet Farrall
Learner and Teacher Agency
Agency (A) may be simply defined as the power to act. For all learners, teachers and students, agency means that they are actively involved in their learning. As represented in the diagram below, agency may be composed of four central elements: self-efficacy, self-management, self-assessment and self-actualisation. In a myriad of ways, these impact and interact with each other according to the individual learner. All can be developed and applied.
Self-efficacy is defined by Bandura (1995) as “people’s judgements of their capabilities to organise and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performance.” In other words, self-efficacy is your self-belief that you can plan and successfully complete a given task. Janet believes that the most effective learning takes place when learners and teachers develop a stable and accurate sense of personal efficacy (Bandura 1995).
Self-management. Self Marzano (2012) suggests that
the conative skills of understanding and controlling oneself and understanding and interacting with others
are skills that students need to succeed interpersonally in the 21st century. The General Capability of Personal and Social Worth Personal and Social Capability in the Australian Curriculum is also based on this premise.
Self-assessment. The ability of the individual to use critical, creative and reflective thinking to self-assess is a crucial metacognitive factor in learning effectively. To decide what has been done well and to identify areas for development and growth allows individuals to become life-long learners and thinkers.
Self-actualisation may be viewed as an on-going process through which we grow to be the best that we can be for society and ourselves.
Janet’s Learner and Teacher Agency provides a multitude of free resources designed to assist teachers and learners in their quest for agency. Schools and teachers will also be able to access personalised professional learning, led by Janet.
CONTACT
Please email Janet at jefarrall@outlook.com.au for further information or questions you may have.
Welcome!
Janet Farrall is an exceptional educator whose four decades of experience have ranged from the classroom to leadership, project management and consultancy. She specialises in thinking and learning, dispositions for learning and differentiation for all learners, including the highly able.
Janet’s mission is to assist teachers and students develop personal efficacy in order to be the best that they can be for society and for themselves.
Take a minute to browse through her Free Resources, for example, the Reflective Thinking Curriculum, the Progressions, the Mathematics Enrichment lessons or Questivities.™
Janet is available for consultation, workshops, presentations, and tailored solutions to meet your professional learning needs.
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND OPPORTUNITIES
Dara School invites you to attend Science of Learning 2023.
This is an evidence-informed professional learning course about the Science of Learning and its potential for optimising learning outcomes for all students. Six workshops for educators, from Foundation to Year 12, will be offered via Teams (5pm to 7pm) in Terms 3 and 4. You may book for single sessions.
The presenter is Janet Farrall, who has four decades of educational practice ranging from the classroom to leadership, project management and consultancy.
Make your booking here. For further information please contact Andi Pegler, Course Coordinator, via email andi@daraschool.sa.edu.au or Janet via email.
Our workshop on August 31 will focus upon the application of Rosenshine's Principles of Instruction in the classroom.
Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools – entries closing soon!
Entries for this year’s Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools are due by Friday 15th September, 5pm.
In 2023 the awards are available for years 5 to 12 and include individual, group and school categories.
More information including entry criteria and forms can be found at: Governor’s Civics Awards for Schools (education.sa.gov.au)
Gifted Education Online Symposium 2023 - Supporting Gifted Learners in the Classroom
Thursday 26 October 2023, 8.30am to 3pm (AEST)
More information may be found here
Access Workshop handouts by clicking on the workshop you attended.
Knowledge Organisers and Micro-projects have been added to Free Resources for Teachers.
"If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves."
Thomas Edison