This document is to review and outline some of the roles, responsibilities and boundaries in my experience as a tutor, trainer and practitioner, within teaching in terms of the training cycle. The teaching cycle helps us to organise what is going to be taught in the lesson and how is going to be taught and it is divided into five main categories; identify needs, plan and design, deliver/facilitate, assess, evaluate. In 1987 Neil Fleming individualised different approaches to study skills and suggested VAK as a definition which categorise three types of learners and therefore three types of learning styles; the Visual learner which prefers to learn through seeing, the Aural learner which prefers listening and discussing and the Kinaesthetic learner which prefers a more to-do approach. We plan the lesson at the planning stage, considering the different types of learners and need that we will be encountering and therefore preparing
Running Head: RUNNING STYLES TESTS How Learning Styles are used in Higher Education Name: University: Course: Tutor: Date: Learning styles incorporate various methods used the dissemination of knowledge and skills mostly in an education setting. Supporters of learning styles have suggested that learners require an interactive approach to learning, one that suits their style of learning. Therefore, teachers should adopt teaching practices that are in line with the needs of the student within the social, cultural and emotional precincts of the learners. It is therefore important to make learning as individual as possible (Kolbs, 1984). With regard to this, several theories have come up since the 1970s explaining different approaches to learning.
(Smith, 2001) These preferences can be visual, auditory or kinaesthetic (VAK). Everyone should be aware of what kind of learner you are whether it is visual, auditory or kinaesthetic. The different types of learning styles that the students have should be taken into account by the tutors, they should provide a range of different teaching methods, for example visual learning styles involves the use of seen or observed things, including pictures, diagrams, demonstrations, displays, hand-outs, films, flip-chart, etc., an authority learning involves the transfer of information through listening: to the spoken word, of self or others, of
Under the category of analyze, learners break material into parts and determine how the parts relate to one another and the overall structure. Under the category of evaluate, learners are expected to make judgments based on criteria and standards. Under the category of create, learners recognize or put elements together to form a new structure or pattern (Larkin & Burton,
Any approach to educational development is a multi-faceted affair with many dimensions on which decisions must be made, and numerous alternatives from which to choose on each dimension, culture included. This short thesis looks at the notion of cultural analysis in curriculum design. Cultural analysis has been accentuated by Lawton (1975), who sees it as a systematic process of examining a particular society in its social and historical context. Such an analysis, in a nutshell, would involve a scrutiny of a society's culture, language, technology, knowledge, beliefs and values, in order to make better judgments about what ought to be transmitted to the next generation, that is, what is worthwhile to teach and learn. Cultural analysis involves culture weighing and assimilation in the curriculum.
Through my personal experiences of education both in early childhood and primary and due to large amounts of critical reflection, I have been able to identify two key conceptual frameworks, these being social reconstruction and humanism, which guide my own teaching and learning. This essay will describe the ideologies that underpin them, and how each implies different approaches to teaching and to children’s learning. It will also critically analyse and examine the ethical impact of both, in relation to learning and teaching. In addition, it will also explore and illustrate the strengths, limitations, and/or drawbacks of social reconstruction and humanism in a practical context. Humanism is a conceptual framework that is part of the liberal ideology, it is a political theory that stresses individualism by rejecting an authoritarian government, and defending and advocating individual freedom (Rathgen & Hulston, 2004, Issues in Curriculum course reader, pg.
Understanding the learning process and how it is stamped into the memory is paramount while attempting to learn or teach others. Forms of Learning According to Carlson (2010), there are four different types of learning which are perceptual learning, stimulus-response learning, motor learning, and spatial learning. Perception learning deals with the ability to recognize something that was seen before and involves life-long changes to the brain of an individual’s perceptual system (Goldstone, 1998). In perceptual learning the four mechanisms used are known as attentional weighting, stimulus imprinting, differentiation, and unitization. By attention weighting, perception becomes tailored to certain activities and surroundings by increasing the amount of awareness and attention given to significant dimensions and features.
1.1 Explain the function of assessment in learning and development. 1.2 Define the key concepts and principles of assessment. 1.3 Explain the responsibilities of the assessor. 1.4 Identify the regulations and requirements relevant to the assessment in own area of practice. 2.1 Compare the strengths and limitations of a range of assessment methods with reference to the needs of individual learners.
This paper will assess the relevance of any three key ideas of social learning theory to teaching and learning which are observational learning, imitation, and modeling 1. Observational Learning According to Bandura (1997) social learning theory is the learning process whereby people retain behavior patterns from observing others, and the person is enabled to pass on these patterns of behaviour to others. This theory emphasizes on the importance of observing and modeling the behaviors, attitudes, and emotional reactions of others. He states that learning would be exceedingly difficult and hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling; from observing others, one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for future actions.
A) Compare and contrast any two of the methodologies that you have pursued in this phase and write a comparative essay. There are numerous approaches to early childhood education. Two perspectives, developed by Friedrich Froebel and Maria Montessori, have similarities as well as many differences. Both approaches are based on the idea that early childhood learning is holistic and intertwined with the developmental progression of the child. They are both constructivist, holding that children learn through constructing meaning with their world.