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Are we preparing students for a life of tests or for the tests of life?
Educators agree that the characteristics of self-directed learners are traits that students will need to succeed in school and in life. Accurately assessing the skills and behaviors of self-directed learning is essential in developing life-long, self-initiated learning habits.
Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning provides successful methods for assessing students' progress towards becoming self-managing, self-monitoring, and self-modifying learners. Using practical examples drawn from a variety of classrooms and schools, renowned authors Arthur L. Costa and Bena Kallick present educators with strategies for designing diverse ways of gathering, organizing, and reporting evidence of continual learning.
This hands-on book provides the practical tools that educators need to implement these ideas, including:
Classroom activities; Sample rubrics; Forms, portfolios, questions, and checklists; Examples of student work
Assessment Strategies for Self-Directed Learning offers a more balanced and complete evaluation method that includes classroom-based assessments that complement state-based assessments. Authors Costa and Kallick illustrate the means to develop and cultivate the intellectual dispositions of self-evaluation and self-correction in all students.
The Teacher's Role in Self-Directed Learning
The Teacher's Role in Self-Directed Learning
Students often come from previous schools and classrooms and home environments in which evaluation, rewards, and accountability are external. Students will need to understand the significance of self-evaluation and the role it can play in their learning process. In this chapter, we will show how teachers mediate students' self-directedness through designing instruction lessons, units, and activities; by creating classroom conditions for self-directed learning; by engaging and enhancing reflective dialogue; and by serving as a model for students to emulate.
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
Mediating for Self-Directed Learning
Mediate comes from the word middle. A mediator interposes him- or herself in the middle between a person and some event, problem, conflict, ...
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