The Circle of Learning

Examples of applying this learning outcome outside the learning environment:
Family	Community	Work
Identify the learning strategies that you have taught your children in the past. Which of these strategies would work for you as an adult on your own learning path?	Find out what volunteer opportunities there are in your community where you can teach others the skills you have mastered.	Let your supervisor and co-workers know what learning style and learning strategies you prefer as future training is planned.

Learners will direct their own learning for personal empowerment and career development.

Identify that learning begins at birth and continues throughout life.
Discuss how learning is derived from past experience.
Discern your most realistic or most urgent learning or career goals.
Assess your prior learning and knowledge concerning these goals.
Create a learning plan for your most important goals.
Seek help in the community for meeting your learning or career goals (e.g., from local colleges or institutes, Elders, local experts, friends, librarians).
Find information to help reach your learning or career goals (e.g., from magazines, newspapers, websites, books on tape, libraries, television documentaries).

Examples of applying this learning outcome outside the learning environment:
Family	Community	Work
Discuss your learning and career goals with other members of your household.	Go to the nearest employment centre and ask for job descriptions for the careers you are thinking of working towards.	Ask your supervisor to give you photocopies of past performance appraisals, so that you can add them to your work portfolio.

Learners will demonstrate critical and creative thinking strategies to solve problems and make decisions.

Reflect on your past experiences in solving problems in the community and at home, school, and work.
Reflect on and evaluate your own values, opinions, attitudes, ideas, and feelings concerning problems.
Choose a problem for which a solution can be developed.
Apply a problem-solving process to the problem. [See instruction tip #2.]
Develop a plan, and act to solve the problem.
Continue to monitor the solution, and make adjustments or improvements as required.