My personal learning space through self-directed learning

martes, 1 de abril de 2014

SELF DIRECTED LEARNING PLAN

The first one (my plan action suggested by myself to improve some aspects about the development of my English classes, it was done to Ana Maria Kamper´class) and my main goal for this year to begin my research project about vocabulary strategies with students from sixth grade.

WHERE AM I? Weakness or issues to improve	PURPOSES What I want to get. Where will I be	ACTIONS Facts, events, actions, creations,	EXPECTED OUTCOMES results	DATES time	SOURCES Human Beings, bibliography and technological sources
K The way to manage instructions in the class	K To instruct my whole class in English.	K be more organized at the beginning of the class, (make sure students attention is focus on me)	K At the beginning I hope to listen expressions like; “teacher please in Spanish, please repeat, etc The main goal is to change it.	K February-May	K My body, dictionaries, cardboards
K Material´s characteristics	K To create or adapted material which can be more demanding for my students.	K Take more time for analyzing the material K Work with more resources on internet not only with books	K The students can advance or move next process of thinking and learning too. K The students involve with the material not only because they are going to receive some kind of grade.	K February –November (bimester )according to Academic schedule for the school	K Books, Cds, Cardboards, notebooks.
K Many ideas around my mind to work my research project	K To clarify what topic I really want to work with sixth graders	K To create many drafts for question´s research K To set a schedule and activities to comply with it. K To read authors and theories about the research topic	K Students can advance in their vocabulary process. K School can motivate and to be part in a straight way in other projects. K To get my degree from the master program	K May-December 2014 K January-May 2015	K Children from sixth A Morning shift

My philosophy for teaching!

SOME OF MY IDEAS TO BUILD LEARNING INTO THE CLASSROOM AND LIFE

To educate, nowadays it is not an easy task, however I consider certain elements to take into account in all educational process, which help us as teachers to make our mission more productive.

It is important to know everybody is equal it does not matter social cultural or economical condition

It is important to involve parents in student´s process and responsabilities

It is important to know not all students have the same abilities

It is important the respect in all actions in/out of the classroom

It is importanto to teach useful and contextualized things to the students

homework with help and be aware of it

build their own academic fade

It is important that students try to be autonomus in their academic process

It is important to listen each student if does not matter what s/he wants to say

It is important to giv3e students the opportunity explore other cultural and academic places different from the school where they can learn and have some fun

lunes, 31 de marzo de 2014

How to promote self-directed learning

Some of my experiences

In my context, to build and apply this process it is not easy, however it is not impossible.

I would like to follow these steps to reach a real self-directed learning process in my Spanish and English classes.

To inquiry my students about the concept of autonomy and freedom they have.
To contextualize (e.g invite them to stay out the class after break, under own decision) the concepts and take them to the academic field.
Students should write their short and long term in Spanish or English class
Students should write how they can reach them and why.
By analyzing their performance through the class (self-assessment).
Invite them to share with classmates that s/he has learned in other space different from classroom.

Finally in my real class I try to promote self –direct learning, using autonomy concept (each individual makes decisions for his/her life and is responsible for them, it does not matter the results) also I ask them copy information when they consider it works for something in their learning process and finally they follow a chart which they need to write the activity, the score(quantity aspect) and their performance on it and the reasons, to take them into a self-assessment process.