Friday, September 23, 2011

7 Things about teaching...

http://www.victoria.ac.nz/fca/teaching/how-learning-works.aspx


The seven principles of learning used by Ambrose et al. (2010) come from a developmental and holistic perspective. They begin with the recognition that:



Learning is a developmental process that intersects with other developmental processes in a student's life, and

Students enter our classrooms with skills, knowledge, and abilities, and importantly, with social and emotional experiences that influence what they value, how they perceive themselves and others, and how they will engage in the learning process.


(1) Students' prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
(2) How students organise knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.
(3) Students' motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
(4) To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned.
(5) Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students' learning.
(6) Students' current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning.
(7) To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning.

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