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Learning in academic terms is to me the tool to acquire knowledge and the only way to develop the needed skills to solve problems. But in real life, learning is for me a force that takes persons where they want to be, is the way information is held to be used and could be acquired, in Rogers´ words: “I am talking about LEARNING - the insatiable curiosity that drives the adolescent boy to absorb everything he can see or hear or read about gasoline engines in order to improve the efficiency and speed of his ‘cruiser’.(Smith, 2013)”. In my personal life learning is the tool to improve my life style, my life quality and my family’s well-being but learning gives me the opportunity of strengthen my sense of “I can do”. Learning also has become an important part of my life, because in my job I depend on learning, on strategies to learn, in motivation to learn, and on creativity I which conduct my students to learning. So, to me learning is a daily used concept which leads my activities and builds the leader to reach my goals.

In personal, as in professional, I feel that my biggest strength is that I´m a reflective person: I analyze the information that is given to me and I search for extra information, I´m always searching the elements that influences my practice, and the way I can improve my class management, my activities at the school and my own learning and professional development. Adding new techniques to my classes is a common habit which my students appreciate. Innovation and creativity are aspects that I try to include in my own learning. On the other hand giving freedom and autonomy to my students is an issue to improve. I´ve been working and teaching with young children and adults, and both are very dependent, then become a ...

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...lect on their learning strategies and would be free to learn by their own methods, searching the answers to their own questions, “there is some evidence that training in self-directed learning activities such as goal setting, self-control, and self-monitoring improves both the on-task behavior and academic achievement of elementary students when compared with un-instructed control students” and “there is evidence that giving students greater control over their own learning and improving their capabilities for self-directed learning result in enhanced feelings of personal efficacy, increased motivation to learn, and increased effort expended on learning tasks” then teacher changes his role from the center of the learning and the one that knows to the facilitator, the tutor, the one that believe in his students and fosters theit abilities to the top (Thomas, 1998).