One of my former students told me recently that my advising philosophy was all about “getting (students) to do what they want to do”. Couldn’t have said it better myself. It’s not my goal to do what I want to do, it’s not my goal to do what someone else wants to do. It’s my goal for my students to step up and make decisions and lead with what they think is best.
I love it when students come into my office and start complaining about someone or a particular situation because it provides an opportunity to redirect that negative energy. Questions like “what do you want to do” “why didn’t you do that” or “what do you wish you had done in retrospect” help students (and myself) to reflect and understand more of where they are and to hopefully make more independent and self-understood choices and decisions in the future.
My student affairs classes would have referred to this as “self-directed”. Self directed learning is when the learner selects and carries out their own learning goals, objectives, methods and means to verifying that the goals were met. My goal is that over time students become more self-directed and less dependent on me for their personal success.
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