Helping Kids Help Themselves

This week we read all about strategies for independent learning. The chapter included four main sections: 1. Encouraging Student self-awareness, self-advocacy, and self-determination. 2. Teaching independent learning strategies in class. 3. How students learn to use strategies independently. 4. Examples of Successful learning strategies.

I appreciated that it taught not just what the strategies are, but how to use them. Teaching the strategies in a classroom is important because the student need to be able to learn for themselves. They should be able to learn many thing from a textbook without the help of a teacher. Teachers are an important resource, but they won’t always have a teacher in life. Someday they will have to learn on their own.