ACTIVITY 7

Using/ based on the following template, express your learning in the following:

1. Before I entered this program, I used to think that as long as you know the
topic, you can execute the teaching process. This belief of mine became
shallow as per my assessment after the discussion of blooms hierarchy
taxonomy, I realized that a teacher must design his/her lesson in depth aiming
at the higher-order thinking skills of the learners. The goal of teaching is to
produce students who can create their own idea or work. As a teacher, it is not
okay to settle for aiming for the learners to remember, a teacher shall aim for
the learners to create their own ideas based on the lesson that had been
discussed.

2. Before, I used to believe that to Problem solving is essential to us because as

we solve carefully and think a solution or strategy in our own way we can
grow and learn more for our future; but, after tithe discussion on Problem
Solving Creativity, I learned that students we as learners as a whole find the
demands of a creative role based in the principles of action learning, both
unfamiliar and uncomfortable. It is, therefore, important that they learn
methods that will help them to develop a creative attitude to problem solving
work. They need to be able to recognize when a creative approach is required
and to be able to engage in a creative mode. In order to do this, they need to
have an appropriate toolkit which will enable selection of the right tool for the
task in hand. The informing part of these needs can be fulfilled through
traditional teaching methods, but in order to gain experience it is essential that
projects are used. It has long been recognized that projects are the best
methods for achieving this and developing recognition of creative ability,
which is vital to the overall education of problem solvers.

One essential element in this course is what has been called collaborative
learning. This means that students learn best when they are actively involved
in the learning process and that they learn best when they work in small
groups. They will be motivated for learning when parallel with the subject to
be learned, they learn to learn in a study team. Study teams are long term
groups existing over the course of a semester with stable membership whose
primarily responsibility is to provide members with support, encouragement,
and assistance in completing course requirements and assignments when
someone has missed a session. Collaborative learning is an effective way to
deal with complex problems and at the same time to learn to learn in practice.