{"id":937,"date":"2011-01-20T09:59:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T15:59:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/?p=937"},"modified":"2022-11-29T13:26:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T19:26:37","slug":"learning-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/learning-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Successful Learning is a Two-Way Street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As an instructor, I am happy to own the success of the learning events I lead.\u00a0 It is my job to understand students\u2019 needs and then figure out how<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-939\" title=\"Female adult student listening to a lecture\" src=\"https:\/\/www.watermarklearning.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/adult-learners123-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Female adult student listening to a lecture\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/> to best meet them.\u00a0 In addition, it\u2019s my responsibility to do that in a way that maximizes the student experience, that is, make it fun, engaging, and pertinent to their real world.<\/p>\n<p>What, if anything, do the students own?\u00a0 Students often see training as a break from the proverbial grind.\u00a0 They want to have fun, relax, even be entertained.\u00a0 And that\u2019s fine.\u00a0 Learning should be fun.\u00a0 But how is the success in the classroom dependent on what they bring to the experience?<\/p>\n<p>I remember some questions that a colleague used to ask her students at the beginning of each class to open their minds to the idea that the success of any learning experience is, in part, their responsibility.\u00a0 She asked them to note somewhere privately their responses to\u00a0four questions.<\/p>\n<p>One a scale of 1 to 7 (low-high), rate yourself on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How valuable an experience do you plan to have today?<\/li>\n<li>How engaged and active do you plan on being in class today?<\/li>\n<li>How much \u201crisk\u201d are you willing to take, that is, try new ideas?<\/li>\n<li>How much do you care about the quality of the experience of those around you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learning and development are often cited as key ingredients to fixing our national economic malaise.\u00a0 Perhaps many of us are or will be increasingly finding ourselves in training as our organizations embrace the idea that learning and skills development are the cornerstones of being competitive, and maybe just surviving, in the knowledge-based, global economy of the 21st century. Are these questions that we all could be asking ourselves more?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m signed up to take a class in a few weeks and I\u2019m pretty excited about it.\u00a0 It will be a change of venue for me.\u00a0 I get to relax and let someone else figure out how to meet my needs.\u00a0 I\u2019m even holding out hope that I might be entertained a bit.\u00a0 I\u2019m looking forward to a great instructor leading me through a great class.<\/p>\n<p>But I also had better be willing to own my piece of the learning experience. I will need to participate and take some risk to get outside of my comfort zone because that is the only way to truly learn. I expect to be\u00a0interested in a quality experience for those around me because it will be a shared experience.\u00a0 So how important will\u00a0I be to the success of the class? 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