Creating Independent Learners

These slides accompanied a mini-workshop that I co-ran at Northern Arizona University's Fall 2014 Tutor Training with Ellie Kennedy.

Transcript

1. Claim
   If I were to teach you all known
   information, it wouldn’t last
   the year.
   

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2. Question
   How does a person learn
   something new?
   

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3. Question
   What do you reasonably expect
   you will remember from your
   courses in 20 years?
   

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4. Question
   What is the value of making
   mistakes in the learning
   process?
   

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5. Claim
   “Any creative endeavor is built
   on the ash heap of failure.”
   – Michael Starbird
   

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6. Activity
   Scenario
   A student walks in, sits down, and raises his/her hand. When
   you visit the student, he/she indicates that they have no idea
   how to start any of their homework.
   Task
   Discuss some strategies for dealing with this student. What
   are some things not to do?
   

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7. Activity
   Response
   “Take a guess. How can you check to see if you might have
   guessed right?”
   Task
   Discuss some scenarios under which this would be an
   appropriate response.
   

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8. Activity
   Response
   “Why? I’m sure you are right, I just don’t see it.”
   Task
   Discuss some scenarios under which this would be an
   appropriate response.
   

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9. Activity
   Response
   “What would a harder problem be?”
   Task
   Discuss some scenarios under which this would be an
   appropriate response.
   

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10. Activity
    Response
    “You and Sarah over there are working on the same problem
    and Sarah has a good start. Sarah will you please share what
    you have done so far with Matt?”
    Task
    Discuss some scenarios under which this would be an
    appropriate response.
    

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11. Activity
    Response
    “Whats a way to be systematic in exploring this?”
    Task
    Discuss some scenarios under which this would be an
    appropriate response.
    

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