Kharezza Maureen A.

Malabote
SSM119 – Production of Social Studies instructional Materials

Foundational knowledge involves understanding and remembering information and

ideas, developing the ability to apply acquired skills, such as performing a complex nursing
procedure meant to trigger critical, creative, and/or practical thinking, linking concepts, ideas, and
experience. Finally, the student will acquire new skills of an intellectual nature, thereby becoming
self-aware and exhibiting attributes of CT, such as intellectual humility, intellectual perseverance,
and fairness in judgement among others.

Educator-directed reinforcement of independently acquired knowledge to connect foundational

knowledge and its application is important. This involves moving towards acquisition of foundational
knowledge outside the classroom through the development of self-paced learning content and using
class time for active and applied-primarily case-based-learning which provides for acquisition of CT
skills. Foundational concepts may be necessary to achieve the full benefit of applied learning, such as
analysis of clinical cases. The focus lies in the educator's ability to identifying essential foundational
content and condensing foundational knowledge.

There are five basic priniciples of humanistic knowledge:

1) Students should be able to choose what they want to learn. Humanisticteachers believe that students
will be motivated to learn a subject if it'ssomething they need and want to know.
2) The goal of education should be to foster students' desire to learn andteach them how to learn. Students
should be self-motivated in their studies anddesire to learn on their own.

3) Humanistic educators believe that grades are irrelevant and that onlyself-evaluation is meaningful.
Grading encourages students to work for a gradeand not for personal satisfaction. In addition, humanistic
educators areopposed to objective tests because they test a student's ability to memorize anddo not provide
sufficient educational feedback to the teacher and student.

4) Humanistic educators believe that both feelings and knowledge areimportant to the learning process.
Unlike traditional educators, humanistic teachers do not separate the cognitive and affective domains.

5) Humanistic educators insist that schools need to provide students with anonthreatning environment so
that they will feel secure to learn. Once studentsfeel secure, learning becomes easier and more meaningful.

Metaknowledge is knowledge about knowledge. Besides knowledge about acquisition of

knowledge, its origin, applicability, and dependability, metaknowledge refers also to knowledge
about what others know, about which information others need, and about how one’s own knowledge
can be utilized accordingly. A group that knows how to use this metaknowledge can establish a
transactive memory.

• If I were to choose on what is the most effective model? I might choose the foundational
knowledge , foundational knowledge as something that are being thought by teachers , and it
is so important for the teachers to ask the students on the confusions of the students . by
asking questions and repeating the discussion it is easier for the students to understand and
learn.