psychology
Ten strategies for getting students to take responsibility for their learning. Students coming to class prepared and ready to learn, and if they aren’t quite ready or prepared to learn, how to get them ready and motivated? Whose responsibility is it to have a student comprehend, process, and really learn the information set in front of him or her during a class? The teachers or the students? Sara believes that there are ways to help a student prepare for the responsibility of learning, and that original responsibility lies on both the teacher and the student. “According to Marcia Magolda in her article ‘Helping students Make Their Way to Adulthood: Good Company for the Journey (2002)”. Magolda believes that the instructor is in an unique position to help students learn two important lessons: (a) to be less dependent on external authorities, and (b) to take ownership and responsibility for their own lives. Being responsible is a skill that needs to be taught to students and needs to be taught properly. Jane gave a list of helpful ways to help students take responsibility. 1. When a student takes a course, have him put is reasons for the course in writing and make them known to himself as well as the teacher.