263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning

If we're doing our jobs right as educators, students will gradually become independent, self-directed learners capable of monitoring, directing, and actively participating in building their own learning. But what if that's not happening? What if students continue to lean heavily on their teachers for step-by-step instructions on every task, never really taking the learning process into their own hands, and as a result, limiting their growth to only what their teachers happen to spoon feed them? In this episode, author Zaretta Hammond offers five "learn-to-learn" strategies we can coach in our students, moves that build their learning power and boost their cognitive capacity. ___________________________ Thanks to foundry10 and SchoolAI for sponsoring the episode. To read Hammond's article and get links to the book Rebuilding Students' Learning Power , visit cultofpedagogy.com/learn-to-learn . To learn more about The Teacher's Guide to Tech , visit teachersguidetotech.com .

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263: Five Skills that Get Students to Take Ownership of Their Learning is an episode from The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast by Jennifer Gonzalez.

This episode is 42:29 long.

This episode was published on Nov 9, 2025.

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