Here is an interesting list of 25 things that skilled learners do. Very positive and I guess a guide to what you should be doing to become a skilled learner. I would hope that most trainers and educators are skilled learners as they must role model what they are advocating. What about a list of things that unskilled learners do. Not as positive but a warning for those who may not be aware of their own unskilled practices. Feel free to add to my list below:
Unskilled learners don’t:
Read instructions
Spend enough time reading and researching the learning content
Take responsibility for their learning
Ask enough well thought out questions
Challenge their trainers to provide more
Approach learning as an opportunity but see it as a chore
Think about application and benefits of learning but rather they concentrate on the piece of paper they will get at the end of the program
Think, they cruise.
Do their own learning
Want to learn they want the money
Plan ahead, they make excuses
See an assessment as a way to verify their learning they seem them as an unnecessary task created to cause inconvenience
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