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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 make sense out of this world

 An increase in knowledge  A way of interpreting and

 The method of acquiring understanding realities

information  A change through which we

 A way of thinking
conceptualize the world

 The process of storing ideas

 A process of memorization

 A means through which we

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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 learned.
play important roles
in 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