Developing Responsible and Autonomous Learners: A Key to Motivating Students

Students whose teachers have a deep understanding of the holistic nature of student learning at all ages and stages of development can provide the most effective learner-centered practices for helping their students develop the skills they will need to be autonomous and responsible learners. Central to providing developmentally appropriate practices are ways in which teachers can establish positive student relationships that help students feel safe to make good choices about what and how they want to learn required learning goals. This module includes do’s and don’ts and practices that help students and their teachers better cope with negative peer pressure and bullying throughout their learning experiences.

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Responsible and autonomous learners

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• Describe and provide tools for what teachers can do to inspire natural curiosity, creativity and autonomous lifelong learning.
• Describe and provide evidence-based instructional practices along with suggestions from cognitive neuroscience, inquiry-based learning approaches and a variety of blended learning strategies using digital technologies.
• Describe do's and don'ts for teachers to consider when providing age-appropriate choices, inquiry-based learning approaches and motivational strategies for combating fear of failure and other negative self-views that can interfere with high levels of learning and achievement.
• Describe holistic personalized learning strategies for helping students deal with negative social pressures and other social and emotional learning challenges.
• Provide and describe ways teachers can develop their own self-assessments to evaluate the effectiveness of their practices from the students' perceptions, based on research-validated 360-degree self-assessment tools.

This Continuing Education program is in collaboration with the APA Center for Psychology in Schools and Education.