Learner Autonomy & Independence

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This week I will take into consideration my student role in the learning process.I would like to start with Holec (1981: 3, cited in Benson & Voller, 1997: 1) who describes Autonomy as ‘the ability to take charge of one’s learning’.
Teachers always have a inner purpose in their teaching process :

"To form a student with Autonomy in their learning process and independence attitude to face task, project and classroom activities"

The autonomus learner in our classroom should be:

a self-activated maker of meaning.

an active agent in his/her own learning process.

The autonomus learner should have a (pro-) active role in the learning process.

Taken from seven main attributes characterising autonomous learners (see Omaggio, 1978, cited in Wenden, 1998: 41-42).

David Little’s terms, define learner autonomy is: ‘essentially a matter of the learner’s psychological relation to the process and content of learning…a capacity for detachment, critical reflection, decision-making, and independent action’ (Little, 1991: 4)

I think teacher must work with constructivism theory in our classrooms to give opportunities to their students to choose aims and purposes and sets goals,each opportunity to write rubrics with themselves in each activity; choose materials and tasks; exercises choice and purpose in organising and carrying out the chosen tasks; and choose criteria for evaluation.In my classes usually I offer options to them and ask for them their own ideas, they like offer to me iddeas like debates in groups, mental map ,or mind map about themes studied as way to evaluate, real project like science fair, right animals , and so on..

I'd share this link about this topic articles:

http://learnerautonomy.org/articles.html


Our students in this century want to have freedom in their families and more in their classrooms. Why don't we encourage them to use academically and we could be an optional friend or tutor more than a evaluator teacher?

One computer in Class:

It is my simple way to introduce technology in class, I'll would like to share a plan to create a collaborative example to write stories, using Charlie Chaplin videos and my 9th grade high school students cand describe the setting, plot and scriot for each scene..It will be an example from other ideas that I used to develop in class.

The Lion in the Cage