SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

"No matter how good teaching may be,

each student must take the

responsibility for his own education."

What is Self-Directed

Learning?

• In self-directed learning the individual

takes the initiative and the responsibility for

what occurs. Individuals select, manage,

and assess their own learning activities,

which can be pursued at any time, in any

place, through any means, at any age.

DEFINITION

• SELF DIRECTED LEARNING refers to

both the external characteristics of an

introduction process and the internal

characteristics of learner ,where the

individual assumes primary responsibility

for a learning experience.

“ Brokett”

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

• adult learners can not be threatened,

coerced, or tricked into learning

something new

• the learning experiences adults seek

out on their own are directly related to

life-change events that trigger the

seeking

GOALS

• Enhance the ability of adult learner to be

self directed in their learning

• Promote transformational learning as a key

to self directed learning

• Promote emancipator learning and social

action as an integral part of self directed

learning

Cont………

• it involves a continual process of:

– self-management

– self-monitoring

– self-modification

Cont………

• self-management

– establishes clear goals

– thoroughly gathers information

– persistently stays with a task

– uses a systematic approach to

problem solving, organizational

planning, and decision-making

Cont………

• self-management

– uses articulate, thoughtful

communication

– continuous process

Cont………

• self-monitoring

– consideration of the

ramifications of thoughts, plans,

decisions, and actions

– metacognition - the process of

consciously monitoring one’s

own thinking

Cont………

• self-monitoring

– self-reflection

– self-evaluation

– process of reflecting on one’s

own thinking patterns, plans,

decisions, and actions

Cont………

• self-modification

– revises strategies and

strives to maximize his/her

effectiveness based on

feedback

Cont………

• self-modification

– the change in one’s behavior

based on the data gathered

during self-monitoring and on

feed back received from others

14 CHARACTERISTICS OF INTELLIGENT BEHAVIOR

FOURTEEN

CHARACTERISTICS

• PERSISTENCE

• MANAGING IMPULSIVITY

• LISTENING WITH UNDERSTANDING

• COOPERATIVE THINKING - SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

• FLEXIBILITY OF THINKING

• METACOGNITION

• ACCURACY AND PRECISION

FOURTEEN

CHARACTERISTICS

• A SENSE OF HUMOR

• QUESTIONING

• DRAWING ON PAST KNOWLEDGE

AND EXPERIENCE

• RISK TAKING

• USING ALL THE SENSES

• CREATIVITY

• WONDERMENT

PERSISTENCE

• “stick to a task” until completed

• does not give up easily

• has a systematic method of analyzing

a problem, knowing ways

to begin, steps to perform,

and data needed

MANAGING IMPULSIVITY

• thinking before acting

• forming a vision of a

product/goal/destinatio

n before beginning

"What we have to learn to do, we learn by doing."

~Aristotle

LISTENING WITH UNDERSTANDING

AND EMPATHY

• detecting cues of feelings or

emotional states - empathy

• accurately expressing other

people’s concepts,

emotions, and problems

COOPERATIVE THINKING -

SOCIAL INTELLIGENCE

• working effectively

in groups

• teamwork

FLEXIBILITY OF THINKING

• thinking “outside the box”

• considering alternative

points of view

• dealing with several

sources of information

simultaneously

METACOGNITION

• being aware of the

steps used to solve a

problem

• sequencing steps

• making a plan of action

ACCURACY AND PRECISION

• accuracy

– reading directions

– checking over your work

• precision of thought

– oral and written communication

• precision of language

– saying what you mean

A SENSE OF HUMOR

• ability to perceive

situations from an

original and humorous

point of view

QUESTIONING

• active problem-solving

• inquisitiveness

DRAWING ON PAST KNOWLEDGE

AND EXPERIENCE

• learning from the past

RISK TAKING

• “pushing the envelope”

• going beyond the

“correct” answer

"Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes."

Oscar Wilde

USING ALL THE SENSES

• multi-focus experience

– auditory

– visual

– kinesthetic

CREATIVITY

• the use of inspired

products, solutions,

and techniques

WONDERMENT

• “love” of learning

• curiosity

• life-long learners

Becoming self directed

• Reasons Why Becoming More Self-

Directed Is Important to You

• How Self-Directed Are You?

• A Book of Your Own

• Profile Your Genius

• An Adventure in Self-Direction

• Eventures: Applying What We Know to

Challenging Self-Directed Events.

• Be Intelligent

• Be Creative

• From Ideas to Action

• Tools for Getting Things Done

• Fighting Your Resistance to Action

• Tell the Story of Your Unfolding Project

• Becoming Skillful: Problem Solving

• Thinking Visually

Cont……… • The Attitudes of Successful Self-

Directed People: Living in the Light

These attributes are responsibility,

confidence, curiosity, drive, optimism,

courage and determination

• The Major Project: Getting It All

Together

• Connecting with Others: Linking to

Learn

• Wrapping Up & Moving On: Finishing,

Demonstrating, Celebrating, Archiving &

Spiraling

FOSTERING

SELF-DIRECTED LEARNING

"You cannot teach a man anything;

you can only help him find it within himself."

Galileo

MOTIVATING TODAY’S

LEARNERS

• the teacher can be a key to motivating

unmotivated students

– establish a supportive learning environment

– engage students in the learning process

– provide students with timely feedback on

their performance

– recognize students for their effort and

achievement

RESEARCH

• Maurice

• SUMMRY

The authors analyzed the biographies of twenty

acknowledged experts without formal training beyond high

school in search of commonalities that might suggest ways

people become effectively self-directed in learning and

accomplishment. Of the 154 characteristics identified, the

fifty rated as most important were examined. They outline

a pattern of education that is sharply focused, active,

experiential, self-directed, situational, and often personally

challenging. They indicate a personality that is both

traditional and radical, and they suggest a life theme of

gathering purpose and drive. The authors transform their

analyses into fourteen hypotheses about education, about a

form of schooling that would prepare students for a life of

self-directed learning and attainment.

If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams,and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.…

Henry David Thoreau