Unit 1 reflection
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This document discusses learning strategies and how teachers can help students develop metacognitive skills and learning autonomy. It explains that teachers need to be aware of the tasks they assign so they can identify the most suitable learning strategies. The document also describes how the author created a language learning profile for a student to diagnose issues and promote strategic learning through a personalized lesson plan, though acknowledging this may be difficult with large student numbers and varied needs.
Unit 1 reflection
- 1. Unit 1: Learning strategies. Although learning seems to happen naturally, people learn recurring to specific and often unconscious actions used to complete tasks depending on their learning styles. This unit dealt with how teachers can train themselves in order to train students to learn metacognitive aspects of their learning which are translated into strategies, techniques and activities. As teachers we can help students to consciously apply some strategies and some techniques that can result in promoting students’ autonomy when studying and learning. Since these strategies are task oriented and also usually problem solving oriented, teachers need to be aware of what kind of tasks we are giving to our students so that we can identify what are the most suitable strategies to teach. In this unit we created a language learning profile in which we selected an ordinary student, we interviewed him and made him write a short piece of writing in order to diagnose what issues our learner had and what we could do in order to promote the conscious use of strategies personalized to the learner’s issues in productive skills through a lesson plan that took into account the issues and strategic based instruction. Although this lesson plan was based on only one student which makes this exercise hard to replicate in contexts where there are at least 40 students with different learning styles and strategic needs, it made me realize that we can always make an effort and observe how our students study and learn because with simple techniques we can affect the way they learn positively.