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Essay On Independent Learning

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When it comes to teaching a class and being a teacher, is not only about teaching the students from textbooks. Teaching a class goes way past just the textbooks. Often when we hear the word “education”, we think that children are going to school and being lectured by a teacher who has power over them and the classroom. Parents leaving their children at school, expecting the best for them, that they will be receiving the fullest potential of education they can ever receive. As well as parents and children relying on the teacher with their full knowledge that the children will be learning at the kid's pace. Unlikely, that is not the case. There are many ways a teacher can help their students, and they would, but they are very limited due to standards …show more content…

With independent learning, students have the ability to learn and think for themselves, as the students won’t have to wait for their teachers. Students can go out and they can discover for themselves. Robinson writes, “Young children have a ready appetite to explore whatever draws their interest. When their curiosity is engaged, they will learn for themselves, from each other, and from any source they can lay their hands on” (Robinson 135). This shows that students will go out of their own way and learn for themselves, without having to do so in class or with a teacher. For example, when a student wants to go beyond on a topic he/she is learning in class, let's say about dinosaurs, and the teacher only talks about them really fast then the student will go do some research. Independent learning is what is called, students will go out on their own and do some research about dinosaurs, they will have more information/knowledge and more of a better of understanding. Not only is there independent learning, but there are also different learning

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