The Agency Revolution: Literature, Language, and Student-Centered Learning

The traditional English classroom—with its fixed curricula, uniform assignments, and essay-centric assessment—no longer meets the needs of today’s diverse, digitally fluent learners. The Agency Revolution offers a transformative approach to literature and language teaching that places student choice, critical thinking, and multimodal expression at the heart of learning.

This practical, research-informed course equips teachers with the strategies and tools to design student-centered classrooms where learners become active agents in their education. Through ready-to-implement frameworks like choice boards, authentic multimodal tasks, and ethical technology integration, participants will learn to create learning experiences that honor diverse learning styles, foster genuine intellectual engagement, and develop the critical digital literacies students need to navigate our complex world.

Whether you teach literature, EFL or ESP, this course provides concrete methods for moving beyond the essay to embrace diverse forms of understanding. You’ll discover how to assess student work holistically, valuing creativity and critical thinking alongside language proficiency, and how to use contemporary topics as bridges between informational texts and humanistic inquiry.

Participants will leave with a practical toolkit including assessment rubrics, exemplar units and classroom-tested activities that can be immediately adapted to their teaching contexts. More importantly, they will gain a new pedagogical vision: one where students don’t just consume content but create meaning, where technology serves thinking rather than replaces it, and where assessment illuminates growth rather than ranks performance.

The Agency Revolution is not about abandoning rigor: it’s about reimagining what rigor means in a classroom where every student has a voice, multiple pathways to excellence, and the agency to shape their own learning journey.

Cristina Prandi consegue la Laurea in Lingue e Letterature Straniere a presso l’università di Torino, e un Master in Didattica e Programmazione. Dal 1993 insegna lingua e letteratura inglese presso un liceo classico, scientifico e linguistico dove ricopre anche la mansione di responsabile della sezione ESABAC e di funzione strumentale per la didattica.
Teacher trainer in Metodologia e Didattica della Lingua Inglese per USR Piemonte, con la passione per le nuove tecnologie e la didattica innovativa, da anni tiene corsi agli insegnanti dei vari ordini di scuole.

Silvia Chini ha conseguito nel 2010 la laurea magistrale in lingue con lode presso l’Università degli Studi di Milano. Appassionata di viaggi e lingue ha sostenuto numerose esperienze formative presso Università straniere e appena laureata si è impegnata nel mondo dell’istruzione insegnando inglese e tedesco in scuole secondarie di secondo grado.
Da alcuni anni collabora sotto varie forme con le case editrici Rizzoli e Mondadori. La sua pagina sui social è YOUnique English: Facebook | Instagram.

È l’autrice del corso LitHUB. Literary echoes and future visions di Rizzoli Languages

Student Autonomy and Agency
Teachers will be able to:

• Design learning experiences that provide students with meaningful choice in how they engage with literary texts and language concepts, allowing them to select activities based on their interests, strengths, and learning preferences
• Create classroom structures that shift decision-making power from teacher to student, fostering ownership of the learning process
• Develop strategies to scaffold student independence while maintaining rigorous academic standards in both literature analysis and language acquisition

Multimodal Literacy and Expression
Teachers will be able to:

• Integrate multiple modes of communication (text, image, audio, video, digital media) into literature and language instruction
• Design authentic tasks that require students to demonstrate understanding through diverse formats beyond traditional essays
• Teach students to analyze and create meaning across different semiotic systems, from close reading of novels to interpreting visual narratives
• Evaluate multimodal student work using flexible, skill-based criteria that recognize varied forms of intellectual engagement

Critical Thinking and Ethical Reasoning
Teachers will be able to:

• Transform informational and literary texts into springboards for ethical inquiry and philosophical questioning
• Develop students’ argumentation skills in both literary interpretation and real-world contexts
• Design tasks that require students to move beyond comprehension to analysis, synthesis, and evaluation
• Create learning experiences that connect literary themes to contemporary issues students navigate daily
• Develop students’ capacity for metacognition and self-reflection about their learning processes

Technology Integration with Purpose
Teachers will be able to:

• Use digital tools strategically to enhance—not replace—deep thinking about literature and language
• Teach critical digital literacy alongside traditional literacy, helping students become thoughtful creators rather than passive consumers of technology
• Design technology-enhanced tasks that bridge STEM concepts and humanistic inquiry
• Select appropriate digital platforms for collaboration, creation, and publication of student work

Assessment for Learning and Growth
Teachers will be able to:

• Create transparent, skill-based rubrics that assess process, creativity, and critical thinking alongside language proficiency
• Move beyond deficit-based grading to evaluation systems that recognize diverse expressions of understanding
• Provide meaningful feedback that guides improvement without stifling creativity or risk-taking
• Develop assessment approaches that work across different task types

Bridging Literature and Language Learning
Teachers will be able to:

• Use authentic texts (informational, literary, multimodal) as vehicles for both content exploration and language skill-building
• Create tasks appropriate for diverse language proficiency levels while maintaining intellectual rigor

Develop interdisciplinary connections that show students how English enables them to explore ideas that matter.

COME ISCRIVERSI

La partecipazione è gratuita, con iscrizione obbligatoria. Per garantire un’esperienza formativa completa e coerente, l’iscrizione comprende tutti e 5 i moduli del corso.

S.O.F.I.A.

Il corso è presente anche sulla piattaforma S.O.F.I.A. con l’ID:155241.
Per ottenere la Certificazione Ministeriale dovrai iscriverti anche sulla piattaforma S.O.F.I.A. entro e non oltre il 17/2.
Per ricevere la certificazione è necessario frequentare almeno il 75% dei minuti complessivi del corso.
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ATTESTATI

L’attestato Rizzoli Education sarà disponibile nella sezione I miei attestati entro le 24 ore successive a ogni modulo.
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