The learners must be self
directed and self motivated in their own learning strategies. This phase or
stage can be referred to as learner autonomy. It is a situation in which a
learner is totally responsible for all the decisions concerned with his/her
learning and the implementation of those decisions. A good learner must have
good understanding on what they are learning. They must have keen interest in
reading and understand the matters so as to become autonomous learner. The practice
of being self directed towards learning promotes learner autonomy and will
certainly enable learners to achieve better learning achievements. So, learner
autonomy is more concerned with learner strategies, responsibilities and
willingness than with teacher resources, notes and explanations. This does not
refer to reduce role of teacher; it rather makes the learner better active
themselves so that they can get better resources from the teacher for their
learning.
Autonomous learners are:
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Motivated and enthusiastic
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Confident in his/her ability to learn
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Aware of why he/she wants to learn
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Self-reliant
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Unafraid of making mistakes
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Good risk taker
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Willing to assume certain responsibility of
his/her own learning
Role of teacher for developing autonomy in Learner:
The present condition of Nepal
clearly shows that most of the teaching learning classrooms are learner
friendly as in the name. The teachers are still present following ‘Jug to Mug’
theory in classroom. Existing teaching learning process still is beyond learners’
psychology, interest, capacity, talent, etc. If we teachers really want out
learners to learn something for their real development, we must encourage the
learners towards automaticity. There is no any alternative: for this a teacher
can-
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Drive the attention of learner towards learning
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Identify the learner’s difference
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Use technologies and multimedia to develop and promote
learning
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Encourage learners to explore something new
themselves
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Access the learners to different resource
materials
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Play the role of facilitator
Role of School:
To explore students inner or
hidden capacity it is needed to make learner autonomous. Providing books, large
classroom, comfortable furniture is not sufficient for learners but making
available following things the school can co-operate the autonomous learner.
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Comfortable library
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Self learning centre
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Science lab
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Practical classes and required tools for
practical, etc.
Role of parents:
To develop self-determination and
self-monitoring capacities in learner is the state of learner autonomy. To be
an autonomous learner, the learner alone can’t do anything if the necessary
things are not provided to him/her. Providing favourable atmosphere for
learning is the responsibility of teacher, school and parents. Parents can
help:
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Creating learning environment at home
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Trying to solve his/her problems
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Providing necessary things for his/her study
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Consulting with teachers time to time
Learning is life long process. It starts from cradle and ends in grave. Anything which we learn ends within short time or becomes life-long depends upon the learning process. If the learner is self-motivated, enthusiastic, aware to learn, the learner doesn’t forget easily, he doesn’t irritate from learning and doesn’t take learning as a burden instead if it is provided forcefully against learners interest as teacher’s method or strategy, unwilling the learner can’t easily, it may be forgotten easily then the whole teaching learning will be failure.
So, every school should create
favourable environment to promote learning autonomy.
