Self-Directed
Strategic Learning
and Committed Effort Strategies
- Set
realistic short-term goals to plan and accomplish
long-term goals.
- Acquire
sufficient information to plan schedules, manage
time, manage expected outcomes, and achieve
goals.
- Create
a suitable learning environment that eliminates
noise, distractions, and discomfort.
- Demonstrate learning efficacy and use
effective study skills to achieve academic
success.
- Make
time to self-assess and monitor progress
honestly and comprehensively.
- Use
discipline, responsibility, curiosity, imagination, and
visualization to guide effort.
- Develop
effective writing, reading, listening,
higher-order thinking, non-verbal, and learning technology
skills.
- Use
abstraction and persistence to find solutions
when others want to give up.
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Communicate (written, oral, visual, listening, reading, non verbally) eloquently in diverse settings
- Explore, use, and reflect upon a wide variety of subjects
- Interpret, evaluate, and solve problems in complex systems
- Be ambitious and self-competitive
- Set high expectations and achieve high standards
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Self-Directed
Strategic Learning
and Committed Effort Strategies
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- Improve how you
set short- and
long-term goals.
- Improve
how you discipline yourself to plan ahead,
prepare, and achieve
goals.
- Teach
yourself not to procrastinate and manage time effectively.
- Acquire
good study, inquiry, reflection and self-assessment
skills.
- Improve
self-directed ability to diagnose and translate
learning needs into learning goals, plans, and activities.
- Teach yourself new
learning routines.
- Teach yourself how to
monitor and self-evaluate your progress and accomplishments.
- Consider
a holistic approach
to accomplish of meaningful, complex tasks in
increasingly challenging environments.
- Learn
how to use online
research tools effectively,
including internet browsers (google.com,
yahoo.com, hotbot.com, etc.).
- Develop
confidence in reason, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, and holistic thinking.
- Attend
learning
communities that provide
social, emotional, and intellectual support for
each other's learning and skill at collaborative
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Self-Motivation
- Recognize
that academic success is a result of high
standards and one's deep-seated desire and
ability to work hard.
- Learn
to be competitive with oneself and not be
satisfied with mediocrity.
- Feel
great joy and fulfillment in attaining goals.
- Eagerly
set priorities, persist, and achieve goals that
support personal values, challenge capabilities,
and promote benefits.
- Work with a learning
community (including
instructors, peers, and mentors) and use support
resources when necessary.
- Manage
stress, face difficulties with patience and
endurance, and learn from mistakes.
- Get
adequate exercise and sleep.
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Self-Motivation
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Autonomy
- Like
to work and think independently
- Take
the initiative and responsibility for one's own
learning.
- Be
bold and take risks to accomplish increasingly
difficult challenges.
- Be
flexible and ready to manage change.
- Set
schedules and organize and manage tasks to
accomplish goals efficiently.
- Reflect
and then discuss what's learned with others.
- Listen
to feedback and gather relevant information to
make informed decisions.
- Have
back up plans to manage contigencies.
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Autonomy
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