Element 4: Empowerment

There are 5 Elements to an Agile Classroom. This post will describe the fourth element, Empowerment. Agile Classrooms defines empowerment is the process of enhancing learners’ capacity to make choices towards achieving positive learning and life outcomes (1). When learners are fully empowered in choosing what and how they learn, we say they are self-directed. Self-directedness is not a like a switch, where it is on or off, all or nothing. Rather, choice in learning is a dial that can be appropriately adjusted in increments. Agile Classrooms provides a scaffolded empowerment model composed of four degrees of choice (2). Each degree is adjusted based on the context and the classroom’s self-directedness capacity.

SCAFFOLDED EMPOWERMENT LEVELS