As I struggle with the "how-to" of getting my students to be truly self-directed learners, I realize that there is a huge gap that needs to be bridged between old school practices and those demanded by the twenty-first century. Maurice Gibbons, author of numerous SDL books, suggests building that bridge between teacher direction and self-direction using the following strategies:
1. Incidental Self-Direction: introducing self-direction in assignments,
stations, special projects or brief use of any of the other approaches to
self-direction listed below.
2. Independent Thinking: teaching students to form their own judgements,
ideas and solutions to problems by transforming the curriculum into questions to
be answered as a class, in groups and individually; or by using such
participatory approaches as case studies, trials, debates and dramatizations.
3. Self-Managed Learning: creating guides that tell students how to achieve
course outcomes, then teaching them how to regulate their work on the guides,
and providing support systems to assist them.
4. Self-Planned Learning: teaching students how to design their own plans for
achieving course outcomes, negotiating their proposals with them , and coaching
them to success.
5. Self-Directed Learning: teaching students to analyze
the situation, formulate their own goals, plan how to achieve them, take action,
solve problems that arise , and demonstrate their achievement.
Check out Gibbons full article at Pardon Me, Didn't I Just Hear A Paradigm Shift
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