Here are some tips that I found important for teachers to follow in order to build up learners' autonomy:
Offer encouraging, focused feedback as well as general praise to encourage students to work with purpose.
Recognize and praise effort. Help your students develop self-efficacy by helping them see the connection between effort and achievement.
Make success possible. Begin each assignment with the easier material, question, etc. Creating confident learners will encourage them to keep trying.
Offer students a variety of ways to self-monitor their work. The
easiest way is to offer them checklists to keep track of completed
tasks.
It’s almost magic. If you think highly of your students, they will tend to behave better for you than for the teachers who obviously do not enjoy being with them.
Give clear written and verbal direction so that your students can
find it easy to stay on task. Students who know how to do their work
well will be less apt to be off class than those who do not know what
they need to accomplish in class. Examples of bad work are also helpful because they can
show student what not to do.
Arouse student curiosity about a lesson and you will find that inherent motivation will prevent many discipline problems.
Spend two minutes at the start of a lesson: ask questions, show
photos, play clips, give quick teamed activities…anything that will
encourage students to want to learn more.
Spend time setting goals with your students. Looking forward in this way gives your students practical reasons for wanting to do their work.
For more Information see this link.
Offer encouraging, focused feedback as well as general praise to encourage students to work with purpose.Recognize and praise effort. Help your students develop self-efficacy by helping them see the connection between effort and achievement.
Make success possible. Begin each assignment with the easier material, question, etc. Creating confident learners will encourage them to keep trying.
Offer students a variety of ways to self-monitor their work. The
easiest way is to offer them checklists to keep track of completed
tasks.It’s almost magic. If you think highly of your students, they will tend to behave better for you than for the teachers who obviously do not enjoy being with them.
Give clear written and verbal direction so that your students can
find it easy to stay on task. Students who know how to do their work
well will be less apt to be off class than those who do not know what
they need to accomplish in class. Examples of bad work are also helpful because they can
show student what not to do.Arouse student curiosity about a lesson and you will find that inherent motivation will prevent many discipline problems.Spend two minutes at the start of a lesson: ask questions, show
photos, play clips, give quick teamed activities…anything that will
encourage students to want to learn more.Spend time setting goals with your students. Looking forward in this way gives your students practical reasons for wanting to do their work.
For more Information see this link.
Hi Khadija.
ReplyDeleteI appreciate your effort for the work you done on your blog, you have marvelously described the learners autonomy with help of fascinating and related images. Here i would like to mention that i didn't find your own reflection and comments about the learners autonomy or one computer class, what did you learn and how would you apply it to your class as we are asked to show our reflection. I love the positive critics because I can't find my weaknesses but my friend can. Over all the blog is designed beautiful.
Hi Nasir,
DeleteI am happy that you liked the way I organize my blog, and I do thank you for your point that this is not a reflection on the week's main topics.
You are right about your observation. What I have done in this post is not the reflection for the week, but a relevant post that I thought would help me and the other colleagues in finding new ways to encourage learners' autonomy. However, I am going to post my reflection for this week by today Inshallah.
Thanks again for your help.
Khadija
Hi Khadija,
ReplyDelete"Making Success possible" is crucial. Some teachers believe that if they get students tasks above their average they are doing great Job! They have no idea that doing so might cause learners to have low self-esteem and hinders their performance in general. They can't even develop learner autonomy because task is above their level.
Thanks for the activities.
Hoda
Hello Hoda,
DeleteThanks for your comment. I totally agree with your comment..
You know, here comes the role of the teacher to justify and highlight all of this points that may not be clear to the students. The more the teacher is aware about the importance of learners' autonomy in learning a language, the more he/she is going to consider much effort to help increase this sense in his students.. And the amount of learning autonomy found in the students will, indeed, determine their success or failure in learning the target language..
I wish you all the best..
Khadija