Get Your Students Hired
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Student Empowerment for Learning Success --> Principles of Student Empowerment
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You're absolutely right! Empowering students to take an active role in their learning fosters critical thinking, engagement, and deeper understanding. Instead of restricting technology, integrating it effectively can enhance the learning experience, providing students with diverse resources and opportunities to explore topics in new and interactive ways. Encouraging them to use technology responsibly helps them develop essential digital literacy skills that are crucial in today’s education system and beyond.
Comment on cynthia Whiting's post: Absolutely! Creating a supportive and trusting environment helps students feel safe to express themselves and engage more deeply in their learning. When students feel heard and valued, their confidence grows, making them more willing to take risks, ask questions, and stay motivated. Strong rapport also allows educators to better understand individual needs and adapt their approach to foster meaningful connections and a positive learning experience.
Building rapport and trust with each student can empower them to share any challenges and encourage them to be excited about what they are learning. Building confidence is important and students will feel they are being listened to and valued in their learning process.
As the students begin to take hold of the learning process they empower themself to success ,. Hands on opportunity along with instructor support brings the student into maximum engagement assisting in student autonomy focusing on self involvement in the learning process.
paying attention to students strong points and there weak points. give the teacher a specific opportunity to help each student separately also gives teacher a way to set class up for everyone to have more success as a team
Students enjoy interacting with other classmates. They learn more when they interact with other students instead of just listening to the instructor lecture.
Building rapport and trust with each student can empower them to share any challenges and encourage them to be excited about what they are learning. Building confidence is important and students will feel they are being listened to and valued in their learning process.
I have learned that the involvement of students and receiving feedback and ideas regarding content delivery is really very important for their optimal learning. Developing Courtesy, Respect , Rapport, utilization of Technology must be practiced and applied for student learning success and to develop soft skills that will be very helpful in their careers as well. Effective listening on the part of instructor gives the students, a sense that their thought are valuable and give the instructor knowledge of what the students needs, so they are able to make required changes in their lesson plans or the way of delivery.
Students developing and expressing a vision which is aligned with success in the course and their education goals is significant in empowering students to take ownership of their success. Students are more prone to invest in a course due a professor that they trust and revere; active listening, professor investment in the student, and student engagement are tools that can be used to bolster student empowerment and investment.
Students need to be valued and an instructor can make sure that happens helping them be more motivated in the course.
meet and greet first day encourage everyone's introduction of themselves and expectations.
There are actually methods and strategies to building rapport with students to increase engagement and learning.
I enjoyed learning about various methods to increase student involvement and participation. I do agree that student motivation and self confidence are increased by giving them opportunities to be a proactive member of the learning process; and collecting their feedback on assignments, etc...that are based on shared learning goals or future career goals (seeing how this will benefit their success in their career). I especially liked the information regarding developing rapport and collaboration; giving students a chance to see themselves as professionals is very important for developing intrinsic motivation.
I have been giving problems for students to work on in small groups, then moving around the classroom interacting with each group and discussing their understanding of the problem, when a group is ready I will have them present the answers we have discussed
I plan to assess the balance between autonomous work and collaborative work time in my courses.