Facilitating Learning Flashcards
A learning approach where students are encouraged to take ownership and control of their learning process and the role of the teacher changes from supplier of knowledge to facilitating the process of learning.
Facilitating Learning
A ____ approach where students are encouraged to take ownership and control of their learning process and the role of the teacher changes from supplier of knowledge to _____ the process of learning.
Learning, Facilitating
This shows that you respect their unique learning style. It also shows that you’re more interested in facilitating their learning than exercising your authority.
Choice
This shows that you respect their ________________. It also shows that you’re more interested in facilitating their learning than exercising your authority.
unique learning style
Vary class activities to give students the ability to try out different learning styles, and to give each student their moment to shine. It also will help them to choose their approach to assigned projects.
Variation
Give context for each lesson, and show how it relates to other things your students might be learning or experiencing.
CONNECTION
Tie the material in to other lessons, classes, subjects, current events, or real-life examples. Tell them why the lesson is relevant to their lives and why it should matter to them.
CONNECTION
Learning how to problem-solve is just as important as knowing the answer, so give students time to talk through a problem in small groups or as a class.
CONVERSATION
also promotes communication skills, socialization, and cooperation.
Conversation
The real challenge is teaching them how to assess the quality and validity of the information they find. Provide students with resources they can trust, and tools for gauging trustworthiness.
RESOURCES
The learning of complex subject matter is most effective when it is an intentional process of constructing meaning from information and experience.
Nature of the learning process
The successful learner, over time and with support and instructional guidance, can create meaningful, coherent representations of knowledge.
Goals of the learning process
The successful learner can link new information with existing knowledge in meaningful ways.
Construction of knowledge
The successful learner can create and use a repertoire of thinking and reasoning strategies to achieve complex learning goals.
Strategic thinking
Higher order strategies for selecting and monitoring mental operations facilitate creative and critical thinking.
Thinking about thinking
is influenced by environmental factors, including culture, technology and instructional practices.
Context of learning Learning
What and how much is learned is influenced by the learner’s motivation. Motivation to learn, in turn, is influenced by the individual’s emotional states, beliefs, interests and goals, and habits of thinking.
Motivational and emotional influences on learning.
The learner’s creativity, higher order thinking, and natural curiosity all contribute to motivation to learn. It is stimulated by tasks of optimal novelty and difficulty, relevant to personal interests, and providing for personal choice and control.
Intrinsic motivation to learn
Acquisition of complex knowledge and skills requires extended learner effort and guided practice. Without learners’ motivation to learn, the willingness to exert this effort is unlikely without coercion.
Effects of motivation on effort
As individuals develop, there are different opportunities and constraints for learning. Learning is most effective when differential development within and across physical, intellectual, emotional and social domains is taken into account.
Developmental Influences on Learning
Learning is influences by social interactions, interpersonal relations, and communication with others.
Social influences on learning
Learners have different strategies, approaches, and capabilities for learning that are a function of prior experience and heredity.
Individual differences in learning
is most effective when differences in learners’ linguistic, cultural, and social backgrounds are taken into account.
Learning and diversity Learning
appropriately high and challenging standards and assessing the learner as well as learning progress - including diagnostic, process, and outcome assessment - are integral parts of the learning process.
Standards and assessment Setting