How to make our Primary students fall in love with learning at Northbridge

Striving students to take responsibility for their learning should be the main objective of any educational process. That is why we must insist on a structured system where the student is the centre of our activity.

Student agency means the capacity to set a goal, reflect and act responsibly to create change. Students take responsibility for their learning, and above all, have an opinion about what they want to learn. This means that the student says: "I am in the room because I want to learn, I am interested in what the teacher is sharing." By getting the student to be actively involved and take responsibility for their learning, we are making a paradigm shift.

A sensitive and creative teacher must be attentive to the needs and interests of students and promote a permanent dialogue in the classroom where students actively participate in making decisions about what they want to learn. It is proven that students who have agency in their learning journey are more motivated people, who experience greater satisfaction in the classroom and, of course, are more likely to achieve the goals they set for themselves.

Such a process guarantees that the student makes decisions, acquires his or her own voice, establishes connections with the  environment, contributing to the configuration of a culture of inquiry, creativity, and change. If we do that, I am sure we will make our students fall in love with learning. It is not enough to point the way, they must take action and become co-constructors in this journey called education.