Powerful Learners
Conditions that best develop the qualities of a Powerful Learner:
- Be Friendly towards us
- Understand that you are a role models for us
- Try not to interrupt us when we are thinking and recording our thoughts
- when you are explaining things to us, please give us a break every now and then. Too much information all at once makes it hard to keep from tuning out
- Keep the conversation relevant
- Bring what we are learning about to life – we need to know where it fits in the ‘real world’
- Help us go deep into learning rather than just brushing the surface
- Challenge us to a degree that is just above our past success
- Encourage us to ask the questions rather than having us answer the questions you already know the answer to
- Involve us more in interesting discussions and let us have our own opinion
- Let us decide when we need help and try to be available when we have a learning hurdle to jump
- When we ask for help, coach us – please don’t tell us the answer
- Make sure we have the time to master what we are learning
- Give us regular, constructive feedback about our learning
- Help us to view failure as a step in the learning process
- Remember that we all learn differently
- Let us choose our own way of doing things if that works for us
- Be prepared to learn from us
- Avoid embarrassing us in front of other students – this makes it harder for us to learn
- Work out better ways to help the kids who often interrupt the class