Expert learners and learner agency
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What are expert learners?
What are expert learners?
In a UDL context, expert learners are:
- puposeful and motivated (they can manage themselves when they get stuck, collaborate with others, focus on a task, are resilient)
- resourceful and knowledgable (they can find and curate information, connect ideas to create new understandings, transfer understandings across contexts)
- strategic and goal-directed (they can break-down a task, manage deadlines, organise resources, communicate thinking).
Source: Adapted from Universal design for learning: Theory and practice (opens in a new tab/window)
Characteristics of an expert learner
Characteristics of an expert learner
David Rose, Co-founder of the UDL describes the characteristics of an expert learner.
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Barriers to developing expertise
Barriers to developing expertise
Katie Novak describes how our current teaching practices often don’t allow students to become expert learners.
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Who can be expert learners?
Who can be expert learners?
The goal of developing expertise applies to all participants: students, teachers, and all of the personnel in the system itself.
If everyone is focused on developing expertise as a learner, the context is suffused with great models.
Anne Meyer, David H. Rose, and David Gordon
Reflection questions
Reflection questions
- How does the idea of expertise in learning impact on your thinking?
- How could the idea of expert learners impact your practice?
- How do students develop expertise as learners?
- What attitudes and habits indicate that learners are developing expertise?
Source: Adapted from Universal design for learning: Theory and practice (opens in a new tab/window)
Useful resources
Useful resources
Top 5 UDL tips for fostering expert learners
These tips can be used to support the development of expert learners.
Publisher: CAST
The goal of UDL: Becoming expert learners
Read time: 2 min
A succinct overview of the goal of UDL, aligned to UDL's three principles.
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