Theories of teaching and learning and how they impact on the classroom environment Education plays a significant role in supporting and influencing the healthy development of children. However‚ teaching is more than just knowing what to teach. Professional teachers must also understand how to teach their students. Therefore‚ in order to create an effective classroom environment which caters for the diversity of students and their various developmental levels and abilities‚ teachers are urged to
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POWER POINT PRESENTATION INTRODUCING JAVA ON BLUEJ ENVIRONMENT INTRODUCTION Bluej is an integrated development environment‚ based on the language blue which was designed and implemented by michael kölling and john rosenberg (kölling & rosenberg‚ 1996) to teach object-oriented programming. Bluej has the same visual environment as blue‚ but uses java (gosling‚ joy & steele‚ 1996) as the implementation language. Java is a language that is currently popular in industry‚ and students beginning the
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Collaborative Learning Basically‚ from a personal stance‚ intrinsic to group work is the process of students working together to do a task whereby shared goals are realised through the sharing of knowledge. As stressed by both Ted Panitz (n.d) in his article ‘Collaborative versus Cooperative Learning- A Comparison of the two Concepts which will help us understand the underlying nature of interactive learning’ and Olga Kozar (2010) in her article ‘Towards Better Group Work: Seeing the Difference
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Dan Griffiths Learning Styles Honey & Mumford learning Styles There have been several different ideas and developments into learning theories and how individuals perceive and apply new knowledge‚ but one of the most explored ideas came from Peter Honey and Alan Mumford. Their learning system was developed during the 1970s and was a variation on the David Kolb learning theory. Both were based on four key elements of learning‚ but where as Kolb’s system was to follow a learning cycle by starting
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THEORIES OF LEARNING The starting point for all language teaching should be an understanding of how people learn. The key to successful language learning and teaching is in understanding the structure and processes of the mind. 1. Behaviorism : learning as habit formation This simple but powerful theory said that learning is a mechanical process of habit formation and proceeds by means of the frequent reinforcement of a stimulus-response sequence. This method‚ based firstly on the behaviorist stimulus-response
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Learning Is Key To Success Learning is a major part of life. People tend to learn in every steps of their life. Learning does not necessarily involve complex terms‚ it can also be primitive things that keeps happening in day to day life of an individual. Everybody has different interest‚ likewise they have a different pattern of learning things. Some people learn faster through visual medium‚ some through audio‚ and some just writing down the things depending upon what the subject matter is. I
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which it tends. Dewey worked as an educationalist and developed his concept of reflective practice and reflection through experiential learning theories. He concluded in his work that the experience the individual lives through can be described as a dynamic continuum - and that each experience influences the quality of future experiences. Boud - the learner ’s point of view Boud et al (1985) take a different perspective and define it as: A generic term for those intellectual and effective activities
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Learning Styles and Academic Performance/Grade Achievement A number of studies have been designed in order to assess the relationship between learning styles of students and their academic performance. Different measures have been used in different studies. Some have used specialized tests related to the particular field‚ while some have used Multiple Choice Theory (MCT)‚ Multiple Choice Quantitative‚ Open Ended Theory (OET)‚ and Open Ended Quantitative‚ etc. A study was conducted by Lynch
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The principles of Learning Unit 112 (City and guilds 7407 2003 /2004) Arnie Sacknusem Introduction “The history of education is littered with failed theories‚ even those that were the result of years and years of research.” Page 213‚ David Minton Teaching Skills in Further & Adult Education The “Principles of Learning” are a broad collection of learning theories that have been and developed over time. This essay aims to show how these different theories underpin current
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Education (DepEd). A typical Mathematics class usually employs the question and answer type of exposition. The teacher starts with definitions and rules‚ and students are most of the time quiet and just listen to the teacher. The Department of Education points to K to 12 Enhanced Basic Education Program to address one of the main weaknesses of the Philippine educational system—the congested curriculum. From teacher-centered instruction‚ the paradigm shifts to student-centered instruction. Students are
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