Self-directed learning

In self-regulated learning, the learner proactively plans, selects and uses strategies to regulate their personal feelings, behavior and environment in order to achieve his or her goals. (Zimmerman, 1990). Our teachers encourage our students to preview, take notes and use other self-directed learning strategies, expect our students to learn more. In order to enhance professional competence of teachers, our teachers also participate in the school-based support programs, so that they can master the strategies of teaching self-directed learning through cooperative preparation, lesson observations and professional exchanges. Each major subject has been established its self-directed strategy and structure, so that students can master self-learning strategies in different areas of study. In order to enhance our students’ learning motivation, the life-wide learning group and the moral education and civic education group hold incentive programs to promote self- learning. Each subject uses electronic resources such as self-learning platforms and self-learning software to encourage students to use electronic resources for preview, extended learning and self-learning activities.

**Examples of self-directed learning strategies**
reading aloud
look up the dictionary
note-taking
online searching
Reading books or newspapers
setting questions
reflection

Student Adaptive Learning System (SALS)

Our school participated in the project “Promoting Student Adaptive Learning at KS1” organized by the Education Bureau (EDB) in the 2018/19 school year. Our English teachers work collaboratively with EDB officers in developing a Student Adaptive Learning System (SALS) to provide online assessment tasks and questions and learning resources to promote student adaptive learning in English Language. During the project period, we collect evidence of student learning in Primary 1 in various forms including student’s performance in assessment tasks and questions from the SALS online platform. All the data and materials collected will be used for the purposes of enhancing learning and teaching, improving the design of SALS and promoting the use of SALS. Our English teachers and the NET had worked with officers from the SAL Team on the development of teaching plans placing a specific focus on the explicit learning and teaching of the reading skills and strategies. An online assessment platform “GoAdaptive” is used to assess student’s achievement of reading skills.

Designs for self-directed learning environment

Source of diagram of Zimmerman's Self-Regulated Learning:

https://www.slideshare.net/CasperWendy/selfregulated-learning-zimmerman

Students played various roles in the Learning Man Programme to encourage others to achieve higher awards.
Students took part in the Learning Man Programme and actively collected more Learning Cards.
Primary One students enjoyed in the “Promoting Student Adaptive Learning” programme.

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