SelfDirected Learning

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Self-Directed Learning

• Accommodate different rates of learning

• Conserve teacher and student time

• Improve student achievement levels

• Encourage independent learning

• Promote creative ability

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Learning Activity Package (LAP)

• Logical sequencing
• Determined by the OCAP or ITAC
• Use a variety of teaching and evaluation methods.
• Avoid assignments that require only reading with
  a written response.
• Monitor the work of each student.
• Use planned checkpoints in each assignment.
• Mix group instruction and assignments with module
  (LAP) packets.
• Remediate an unattained learning activity by
  assigning another activity that is similar to the
  first one attempted.

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LAP Components

• Present an objective.
• Determine student knowledge.
• Provide instructional activities.
• Safety!!
• Post-test to measure achievement.
• Re-teach if necessary.

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Information Sheets

• Explanatory background info on a single topic.
• Supplement instruction by supplying pertinent,
  factual info which is
• Current
• Necessary to have close at hand, or not readily
  available in other suitable form
• Essential for reaching knowledge (cognitive)
  objectives

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Info Sheets (Contd)

• Used to supply
• Technical
• Safety
• Special interest, and career information
• Use is recommended when
• Info is missing or inadequately covered in
  available documents
• Existing info needs to be condensed,
  consolidated, and reorganized from several
  sources
• Published info needs adapted (simplified) to the
  level of the student

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Info Sheets (Contd)

• Published info needs adapted (simplified) to the
  level of the student
• There is a need to save time and expedite
  learning
• Information sheets are meant to be studied and do
  not direct student activity.
• Source references should be included.
• Review questions may be added to the sheet to
  determine how well the info was understood.

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Assignment Sheets

• Used to present a new concept, principle, or
  information.
• Directs the student to
• Read and study selected material prior to or just
  after the teacher has dealt with it.
• Practice the application of general principles
  (drilling in mental processes such as math
  calculations) as well as manipulative skills.
• Solve problems.
• Apply info that has been presented in the class
  or lab.

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Assignment Sheets (Contd)

• Generally, the assignment sheet includes the
  following parts in predetermined sequence.
• Page heading
• Introduction
• References
• Assignment
• Study questions

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Assignment Sheets (Contd)

• Assignments can involve
• Preparing a bill of materials
• Reading and interpreting drawings
• Studying, plotting, and interpreting data
• Planning procedures
• Observations, investigations, and/or field
  surveys and recording data
• Analysis and decision-making problems similar to
  those encountered on the job

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Operation Sheets

• An operation is one part of a process of doing
  any job task.
• An operation sheet contains
• Written instructions and illustrations to explain
  how to perform each procedural step in a
  manipulative operation
• The how and not the why of the operation

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Job Sheets

• Assists the student in the performance of a
  manipulative job task resulting in a product or
  service.
• Provides a step-by-step sequence of directions on
  how to do a particular hands-on job task
  involving numerous operations.
• They are not to be confused with operation sheets
  which deal with elements of a job task.