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Welcome to the Gr. 9 Learning Strategies Class 

This year we are going to focus on honing your skills as learners, and developing your intrinsic motivation through autonomy, mastery, and purpose. Some of the skills we will be learning throughout the year will be: organizing materials, space, and time; taking notes in various situations; engaging in efficient study strategies, employing reading strategies for different types of texts, and using the writing process to produce excellent pieces. In addition, we will be examining who we are as learners and as people, and we will determine how this impacts your learning and your approach to learning.

For your Independent Study Project you will be investigating your future vocation. Through an examination of your strengths, weaknesses, personality, gifts, and talents you will be identifying a potential career that fits who you are as a person and as a learner.  In addition, you will also be keeping Learning Logs focused on your changing perspectives about learning and your approach to learning.

 

You job throughout this course will be to: 1) be open to learning, 2) be ready for some hard work, and 3) enjoy the journey!

Enduring Understandings

  1. An understanding of oneself as a person and as a learner (ex. understanding of learning habits such as studying and note-taking)

  2. The development of self-confidence and a positive attitude about themselves as learners.

  3. The development of compensatory strategies (reading strategies, writing strategies, listening strategies, study strategies, researching strategies, strategies for memory, organizational strategies, and time management strategies) for learning which will help students meet their potential.

  4. The development and awareness of intrinsic motivation, a factor of lifelong learning. 

Essential Questions

  1. What does it mean to be different? How am I different as a person and as a learner? How can one capitalize on difference?

  2. What is motivation? What am I motivated about? Why? How can I become motivated in my career as a student?

  3. What does it mean to be organized? What mechanisms need to be put into place to achieve organization?

  4. What effective compensatory strategies can be put into place to meet processing challenges such as reading, writing, studying, researching, listening, and analyzing?

Course Organization

Vocation Project

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