The phrase "student agency" is correct and usable in written English.
For example, you might use it in the sentence: "The student agency held a meeting to discuss how to improve education standards."
"Student agency" and "student-centered" may lead to more contexts that require self-direction, but self-direction itself needs to be aspired to and honed as an essential skill by students.
This year's GRAE presenters take up such issues as power and control over meaning in children's artwork, student agency in relation to media, material culture and performance, transforming pedagogies, positioning identities, and ethics and education in and as art practice.
In three months it was used by about 1,700 students, who offered hundreds of ideas ranging from the practical (later deadlines to rescind the P/D/F grading option) to the quirky (a student agency selling late-night burritos).
MV: To start, they'll be pretty similar [to AltSchool]: small, independent, private schools – schools that adhere to the idea that student agency is critically important.
Short teacher-directed projects can be useful at achieving specific outcomes, but big integrated challenges boost student agency, communication and pathfinding to encounter new situations.
It promotes student agency and empowerment by providing students with choices for learning based on how they learn best, what motivates them to learn and their academic goals.
"The idea of student agencies isn't really new, but it's been confined to the Ivy League," Mrs. Christoffel said.
The move will inspire some students to form new student agencies to compete for food sales at lower costs.
She has no qualms about undercutting local businesses: "I don't have a problem as many of those existing specialist student agencies are not providing the service the community needs: it's often a case of taking the money and running".
In both of these cases, teachers are giving students agency over their behavioral supports, and they are demonstrating that they're invested in the students performing well.
The questions are which technologies to choose for which purposes, and how to integrate them, so as to maximize all students' agency.
