Embibe Experts Solutions for Exercise 1: Exercise 1

Taking the initiative provides an opportunity to act or take charge before others. Self-direction is the ability to set goals related to learning, plan for achieving those goals, independently manage time and effort, and assess the quality of the learning experience.

Which of the following is a technique to manage goals and time?

Taking initiative helps the learners in understanding how to utilise time and handle the workload efficiently while managing goals and time. 

Taking initiative means being self-directed and looking for ways to accomplish tasks within a specific time period. Which of the following statements is NOT correct about Managing Goals and Time?

Initiation skill involves the ability to begin a task independently. It helps the child to build his/her path of development. To work independently, student needs to monitor and prioritise their tasks.

If a student takes initiative to work independently. Which of the following techniques associated with taking initiative and initiating self-direction can help learners work autonomously?

An Environmental Science teacher plans to introduce the chapter 'People and Occupations' in the class, by organizing a 'Meet and Greet Session' with parents. The teacher requests a few parents from different professions like; doctors, Engineers, professors, photographers, etc. to come to class and talk to the students as experts and help them understand these occupations better. 

According to you, identify which activity style is the teacher using to help students broaden their knowledge about different professions.

A Social Science teacher, distributes the below case study in the classroom, to open a discussion and a critical analysis on the topic of 'safe drinking water'. 

"In the city of Hyderabad in India, Naandi Foundation’s community water treatment plant provides safe water. However, villagers still use free water which is not safe for consumption and makes people sick. The villagers use unsafe water not because of affordability issues or accessibility issues, but because of the flaws in the overall design of the system. The problem is that the womenfolk cannot bring the heavy containers of water back to their homes from the plant."

The teacher asks the students ways of solving this social and health issue that grows in many villages in India. The teacher asks the students to consider it as an exercise to think of ideas on how this problem faced by the villagers can be solved.

According to you, which self direction process or activity has the teacher used in this activity?

A Homeroom teacher plans to create a self-directed activity for the second-graders.

She designed an activity called “The Gift-Giving Project" and the essential question was: How can we design a useful and meaningful gift for a family member?

The students were tasked with (1) coming up with a name for their invention, (2) addressing who their gift was created for, (3) answering the question: how does your gift help them?, and (4) answering the question: how does your gift work? 

Students were given 4 weeks to innovate in key steps with the teacher: empathize, define, ideate, prototype, and test their creations. The purpose of this project was to help students understand and practice empathy. By the end of this project, each student took home their creations to share with their family members and receive feedback from them and the teacher. 

According to you, which self-directed activity or process is being used in the above case by the teacher?