What is independent learning? - Identifying their own “needs-to-know”
- Searching for relevant information and gaining knowledge on their own
- Learning on their own with minimum supervision
- Actively seeking ways to solve their own problems and difficulties
- Assessing their own learning to see if their needs-to-know are met
Conditions Required - Goals
- Enthusiasm and interest
- Confidence of success
- Adequate pre-existing knowledge
- Skills
- Availability of resources
- Feedback
- Information about course requirements, expectations, learning environment, etc.
Improved academic performance - Improved academic performance
- Increased motivation and confidence
- Enables teachers to differentiate tasks
- Better utilize class-contact time
- Promote active student learning
- Help students learn how to learn
- Encourage students to take responsibility for their own learning
- Prepare students for lifelong learning
The Dangers - Anxiety and worry
- Potentially de-motivating if students are not supported
- Negative experience of learning
- Students lose confidence in self learning
- Poor learning outcome
- Poor student evaluation
Promoting independent learning: - Is Not
- simply abandoning “lessons” and telling students to learn on their own
- placing the responsibility for learning entirely on the students
- Is About
- a different way of helping students learn
- facilitating and supporting students to learn increasingly on their own
Independent Learning - Swimming Independent Learning - Swimming Independent Learning - Swimming Shift of responsibility for learning process - Shift of responsibility for learning process
- Students should understand their learning
- Students should be motivated to learn
- Students should collaborate with teachers to structure their learning
- Involves:
- planning
- self-monitoring and self-motivation
- controlling the pace and direction of work
- evaluation
Helping students succeed - Prepare students adequately:
- Help student acquire independent learning skills
- Match tasks with preparedness of students
- Develop students’ confidence of success:
- Provide positive reinforcements
- Show examples of good work by fellow students
- Provide encouragement and support
- Reason logically
- Construct informal rules for solving problems
- Listening and remembering
- Applying previously learned knowledge
- Reflect, monitor and evaluate progress via self-assessment
- Manage feelings
- Self-motivate
Scaffolding - Scaffolding
- Self-monitoring
- Setting goals
- Receiving feedback
- Being a positive role model
- Effective communication focussed on learning
- Effective feedback that encourages reflection
Opportunities for easy assessment - Opportunities for easy assessment
- Measurement of self-directed learning
- Increase the speed of access to information
- Provides a medium for teacher pupil interaction
- Guided self-study
- Problem-solving exercises in lectures
- Student presentations and student-led seminars
- Peer teaching
- Student-centred assessment
- Project work
- Learning contracts
- Dissertation
- Support for teachers
- Study support
- Students voluntarily choose their learning activities and set goals
- Empower students to use self-regulation to develop learning strategies
- Student voice to own approaches to learning
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