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 Activity:

Complete the Octagon

(4 Groups)
- Describing teaching and learning
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Sub-idea
Sub-idea Sub-idea

Central
Sub-idea Sub-idea
Idea

Sub-idea Sub-idea
Sub-idea
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 Activity:

Numbered Heads Together

(4 Groups)
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 How do I study best?

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 How will you describe a

learner?
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 Why did you choose to enroll

in a Teacher Education
course?
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NATURE OF
LEARNING
Part
Facilitating
Learning
1 Introduction
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Teaching Learning
 Giving  Acquiring

 Transferring  Accepting
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Elements of the educative process:

 Learner – given focus

 Teacher – prime mover
 Learning Environment – headway
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What is learning?
 A way of knowing things  A process of memorization

 An increase in knowledge  A means through which we

 The method of acquiring make sense out of this

information world
 A way of interpreting and
 A way of thinking
understanding realities
 The process of storing ideas
 A change through which we
conceptualize the world
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 Slavin (1995) defines learning as a change in an

individual caused by experience.
 Calderon (1998) views learning as the
acquisition through maturation and experience
of new and more knowledge, skills, and
attitudes that will enable the learner to make
better and more adequate reactions, responses,
and adjustments to new situations.
 Learning is a change in behavior attributable to
experience (Mayer, 2011).
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Key Concepts…
 Change

…in knowledge (cognitivists) and behavior (behaviorists)

*A change that disappears after a few hours does not reflect
learning (Mayer, 2002).
 Behavior

The changes brought about by learning are relatively permanent.

 Experience

…involves experience (maturation or growth)

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 As students, were you taught

how to learn? In what way?
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 Learning is a dynamic process; it is

an active and a continuous process,
a life-long processof reorganizing
facts and information.
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 How will I ensure that my

students value and love
learning?
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Ways of Learning

 L – Listen

 E – Evolve

 A – Adapt

 R – Reciprocate

 N – Network

 I – Integrate

 N – Navigate

 G - Grow
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 Activity:

Novelty
(4 Groups)
- Who am I as a learner?
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VIEWS ABOUT
LEARNING
Part
Facilitating
Learning
1 Introduction
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 Behaviorist  Cognitivist
 vs.
Theories Theories
- “habits” or specific - “cognitive
ways of thinking or structres” or more
behaving are learned.
general ways of
- stimulus-response
thinking are
and reinforcement
play important roles in
learned.
learning
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 How does learning occur?

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How does learning occur?

 Learners learn only what they are ready to

learn.
 Learners construct their own
understanding.
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 As a future teacher, how can I

maximize learning of my
students?
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 “If you teach a person what to learn,

you are preparing that person for the
past. If you teach a person how to
learn, you are preparing for the
future.”

-Cyril Houle