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After reviewing this week’s readings, assess your readiness to be a self-directed learner. In your response, make sure to address the following:
What is a self-directed learner?
What are the essential aspects of self-directed learning? What are your two biggest strengths as a student?
How will these strengths help you become a self-directed learner?
What are your two biggest weaknesses as a student?
How do these affect your readiness to be a self-directed learner?
Describe at least three strategies to become a more self-directed learner.
How will you hold yourself accountable for your growth as a learner?
Your written assignment should be submitted in a Word document (or similar program) and should be at least 1-2 pages in length, double-spaced with 1-inch margins, and written in Times New Roman size 12 font. You should provide a word count at the end of your written assignment.
I always prefer to be a self-directed learner because being a self- directed
learner satisfied me internally. I motivate myself and others for
self study.
When i engage myself in self study i know the concept properly. It is truth
that engaging oneself in self directed learning is quite challenging because
it needs more dedication. We have to be more disciplined in self directed -
learning.
What is a self directed learner? We can answer this question as a learner
who learns anything independently without anyone's help, an intrinsic
motivation motivates the learner to
learn something.
There should be some elements for being a self directed learner, these
are: evaluating readiness to learn independently, what are the goals of
learning, how the learner will engage in the learning process, analyzing
learning outcome. The learner should first assess that whether he or she
is ready to learn independently. When the learner is ready for self directed
learning he or she should set learning goals. What things the learner wants
to learn he or she set. Now the learner should think about learning
process. What will be his or her strategy for the study, whether deep or
surface. At last the learner needs to assess the learning outcome. The
learner should take feedback from advising instructors. The learner now
can analyze that his learning goals
have fulfilled or not.
My strength as a students are: discover and inventions. These strengths
motivate me for self directed learning. I always want to discover something
and for this every time engage
myself in self directed learning.
My weakness is i put myself in deeper study, I can't stop myself to know
more and more about any topic. Because of this weakness it takes long
time to complete any topic. Because of this weakness sometimes i feel
some laziness.
For becoming a more self directed learner a learner should be motivated
internally,so that the learner should study thoroughly. Along with intrinsic
motivation the learner should know well his or her goals of learning. Along
with knowing the goals the learner should monitor his or her learning
process. The learner should monitor his or her outcome regularly.
It is the learner who is responsible for his growth as a student. His hard
work will finalize his or her success.