THE VALUE OF SELF DIRECTION
SELF-DIRECTION-Self-direction is the ability to motivate yourself to use your time and energy to reach your goals. It’s important to use this skill as a student, employee, and as a human in general. Pushing off necessary tasks creates stress and keeps you from enjoying the things you want to do. Employers actively seek out employees that show initiative without extra encouragement. Want to improve your self-direction? Try the Pomodoro Method, keep to-do lists short, take a walk, and limit social media use. Self-directed people manage time well and are inquisitive, creative, and adaptable.
- “Self-Direction – Defining goal: independent thought and action–choosing, creating, exploring.”
- “Stimulation – Defining goal: excitement, novelty, and challenge in life.”
- “Hedonism – Defining goal: pleasure or sensuous gratification for oneself.”
- “Achievement – Defining goal: personal success through demonstrating competence according to social standards.”
- “Power – Defining goal: social status and prestige, control or dominance over people and resources.”
- “Security – Defining goal: safety, harmony, and stability of society, of relationships, and of self.”
- “Conformity – Defining goal: restraint of actions, inclinations, and impulses likely to upset or harm others and violate social expectations or norms.”
- “Tradition – Defining goal: respect, commitment, and acceptance of the customs and ideas that one’s culture or religion provides.”
- “Benevolence – Defining goal: preserving and enhancing the welfare of those with whom one is in frequent personal contact (the ‘in-group’).”
- “Universalism – Defining goal: understanding, appreciation, tolerance, and protection for the welfare of all people and for nature.”
SE+Decem SELF-DIRECTION SUB CONSTRACT
This section will provide a general understanding of self-direction as it relates to student learning and achievement. The discussion will focus on five sub-constructs of the self-direction construct.
Simply Stated
As a way of getting started, let’s define each of the sub-constructs associated with self-direction in simple terms.
- Self-Directed Learning: Individuals direct their own learning by establish goals, developing and implementing plans, monitoring progress and evaluating results.
- Self-Regulated Learning: Individuals regulate their thinking and behaviors in order to maximize their potential for learning and improving their learning outcomes.
- Self-Regulation of Emotions: Individuals regulate their impulses and emotional responses to stimuli and events in their lives and learning.
- Executive Functions: These functions control and manage the complex processes that enable us to learn and live balanced lives.
- Goal Setting/Action Planning: Individuals have the capacity to establish goals, develop action plans and then take action to successfully achieve their goals.
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