As a teaching assistant is essential for me to understand the importance of building positive relationship with in the school using the right and effective communication. I know from working in a school we have to adapt ourselves to be able to talk to different people in different situations and for the out come to be successful we need to know how best to get our point across for a more useful response. As a teaching assistant we play a vital part of being a role model‚ so being able to demonstrate
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My Learning Style My Learning Style Everyone has different styles in which they learn. Some are auditory‚ some visual and some require hands on or kinesthetic. In taking the Learning Style Inventories‚ my results concluded that I am an auditory learner. According to The Center for New Discoveries in Learning‚ 2012 “If your highest preference is auditory‚ you prefer to learn by listening and often recall the words you ’ve heard in your mind. If you are taking a written test‚ this tends
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three of the choices above. My religion plays a part in this because with God all things are possible. I just keep God first and everything else falls into place. I know the test that I took last week said that I was a visual learner but with God I can be whatever learner I want to be.
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Learning Theories When we talk of learning we usually think of something related to the classroom‚ such as English or Maths. However‚ Psychologists refer to learning as a relatively permanent change in behaviour as a result of experience’. Learning is a fundamental process in all animals and the higher up the evolutionary scale the animal‚ the more important is the ability to learn. All animals need to adapt their behaviour in order to fit in with the environment and to adapt to changing circumstances
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As David Kolb explains‚ people prefer different and particular styles of learning. Their choice is influenced by many factors. Kolb identified four learning styles which are based on a four-stage learning cycle. This cycle shows how experience is translated through reflection into concepts‚ which in turn are used as guides for active experimentation and the choice of new experiences. Concrete Experience (CE) - the learner actively experiences an activity‚ hands-on experience. “DO” Reflective
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Students’ Learning StylesLearning is a complex process of acquiring knowledge or skills involving a learner’s biological characteristics/senses (physiological dimension); personality characteristics such as attention‚ emotion‚ motivation‚ and curiosity (affective dimension); information processing styles such as logical analysis or gut feelings (cognitive dimension); and psychological/individual differences (psychological dimension) (Dunn‚ Beaudry‚ & Klavas‚ 1989). Due to the multiples dimensions
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VARK Learning Style Solly Chacko Grant Canyon University NRS-429V Melinda Darling May 25‚ 2013 VARK Learning Style In 1987‚ Neil Fleming developed an inventory designed to help students and others learn more about their individual learning preferences. That invention is the VARK Assessment. “VARK is a questionnaire developed and used at Lincoln University‚ identifies the preferences of students for particular modes of information presentation”(Fleming‚ 1995). After taking the VARK quiz‚
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Constructivist Theory is very similar to the traditional ideas about teaching. The teacher’s roles that are similar include specifying learning objectives‚ preparing learning activities‚ and designing assessments. The main difference between Constructivist Theory and the traditional roles of a teacher is “a shift in emphasis away from the teacher merely providing information and toward the teacher promoting the interaction that makes students’ thinking open and visible.” The constructivist theory puts the
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Humanistic Theories of Learning: I. Introduction Humanism‚ a paradigm that emerged in the 1960s‚ focuses on the human freedom‚ dignity‚ and potential. A central assumption of humanism is that people act with intentionality and values. Humanism would concentrate upon the development of the child ’s self-concept. If the child feels good about him or herself then that is a positive start. Feeling good about oneself would involve an understanding of ones ’ strengths and weaknesses‚ and a
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Unit 009 Understanding inclusive learning and teaching in lifelong learning Within my specialism of learning and teaching I teach a session on the Introduction to the Private Security Industry. At the beginning of the session I would put people in pairs to discuss what they think security is and what qualities are needed to be a front line security operative with emphasis on what they think they can bring to the role. Each learner will then feedback on each other’s behalf on what qualities they
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