Baby Steps: Growing Self-Directed Learners

by | Nov 9, 2011 | Less Teacher, More Student, Making The Shift, The How of 21st Century Teaching, Voices

Sometimes new learning experiences, just like gifts, don’t work as we expect they will. You probably won’t end up implementing them just like someone else did or the way you originally imagined you might. But in the end, if you’re making a change for the better — if you’re helping students take steps, even baby steps, to becoming more independent learners, that’s progress, and progress is what really matters.