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Session 7: Teaching for Better Learning

What factors affect classroom learning?


How to foster deep learning?
Key Ideas:
How does the 3P Model
explain teaching and
learning?
How do students approach
learning?
How to create an
environment conducive to
deep learning?
Focus 1: The 3P Model of Teaching and
Learning (Biggs, 1996)
Presage ( 預兆 ): Factors that exist before learning
(both on the part of students and the teaching context)

Process: what exists during learning (i.e. students’


approach to learning)

Product: the outcomes of learning


1. The Presage

Can you name 5 “presages” for each?


• Student Presage (e.g. students’ prior knowledge)

• Teacher Presage (e.g. teacher’s subject knowledge)


2. The Process
The Process stage refers to “the way students actually handle
the task, which is determined by their perceptions of the
teaching context, their motives and predispositions and their
decisions for immediate action, all of which comprise their
approach to the learning task”

DEEP LEARNING

SURFACE LEARNING
3. The Product

The Product stage of students’ learning and describes low-


and high-level cognitive outcomes ranging from
 quantitative recall (low-level outcomes)
 correct and relevant answers
 abstract thinking
 elegant conceptualization of problems (high-level
outcomes)
(Biggs, 1996, p. 52). 
Think Time:

How does the 3P Model help you to understand


L&T as a prospective teacher?
Focus 2: Approaches to Learning (Biggs,
1999, 2003)
Think Time : )

Give an example when you are Give an example when you are
engaged in Surface Learning engaged in Deep Learning
What are some characteristics of surface What are some characteristics of deep
learning? learning?
Which type of learning can you see?
Third type of learning:
Strategic Learning ( 策略性學習 )

1. Learning to achieve highest


possible grades in a course
2. Focused on assessment
requirements and criteria
3. Effort to understand
knowledge to demonstrate
learning
4. Focused on perceived
preferences of the teacher
Reflection:

Some may place a negative


connotation on surface Can you think of ways to
learning while viewing promote deep learning
deep learning in a more when you become a
positive light but is surface teacher?
learning bad altogether?
Focus 3: Understanding “Meta-cognition”:
A necessary strategy for deep learning

What is
“metacognition”?
( 後設認知 )

It is “thinking
about thinking”
Introducing
“Self-regulated Learning”

( 自主學習 )
1. During the planning
process individuals ask
themselves: 2. During the monitoring
process individuals ask
• What in my prior knowledge themselves:
will help me with this 3. During the evaluating
particular task? • How am I doing?
process individuals ask
• In what direction do I want • Am I on the right track? themselves:
my thinking to take me? • How should I proceed? • How well did I do?
• What should I do first? • What information is • Did my particular course of
• Why am I reading this important to remember? thinking produce more or
selection? • Should I move in a different less than I had expected?
• How much time do I have to direction? • What could I have done
complete the task? • Should I adjust the pace differently?
depending on the difficulty? • How might I apply this line
• What do I need to do if I do of thinking to other
not understand? problems?
• Do I need to go back through
the task to fill in any
"blanks" in my
understanding?

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