...ESSAY TOPIC: For this project, develop a story of your own learning – and teaching – journey. If you are not currently teaching you may, nonetheless, write about what you will or would do in the future, or indeed what you might have done differently in the past. This course, “Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction” has had such a great impact on my learning and approach to teaching. I have been amazed at a number of the concepts/ideas that I have been introduced to in this course. Even though I have a background in Mathematics Education from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, a number of the things dealt with in this course have helped shaped my perspective in teaching and learning. I teach Mathematics in Grade 10 – 12 in a High School in Ghana. Among the many ideas that have been discussed, one that I have looked at with keen interest and has had lots of impact on my learning as well as my approach to teaching is, “The World of Childhood”. This concept basically explains the three worlds of childhood, the interactions between them and the effect they have on teaching and learning. They are; The Academic world, The Social World and the Cyber (internet, ICT etc.) world (John Macbeath, 2015). From the lectures, the role of every teaching is to make connections meaningfully among these three worlds. As a mathematics teacher, this concept has helped me to relate my teaching to the other worlds in which the child is found. In carrying out instruction, I include...
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...other hand, I also can be an auditory learner and auditory learner learn through hearing. To learn about my children learning style the best thing I could do is observe what he or she is doing because his or her actions, interests, and preferences will provide me with the information on how they are processing what they are learning. For example, I learned that children learn more and can recall better when they have hand on experience or how Jensen (2005), called “hand on, mind on learning, ” he continues saying that children don't learn by reading instead they learn by doing things by themselves. For that reason is why I always implement hand on experience in my students learning. For example, if I am teaching a lesson on “trucks” I will provide all the materials needed it so my students can manipulate and build their own trucks using their imagination. Some of the materials I will provide to them are play dough, construction paper shapes, and some manipulative toys that they can use to build their trucks. I also try to maintain my students engage the more I can. “Knowledge depends on engagement. Engagement is inseparable from empowerment. Empowerment means the opportunity to contribute. Learning is an act of participation. We are all lifelong learners” (Jay Cross and the Institute for Research on Learning, Informal Learning 2007). When I am teaching I use different method to engage my children. For example, I use music in the classroom because I know they love music...
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...Paolo Virgil G. Mariano BLOCK EN Ian Steven Corsame Homework in ENLRES “Educational Outcomes of Tutoring: A Meta-Analysis of Findings” A meta-analysis of findings from 65 independent evaluations of school tutoring programs showed that these programs have positive effects on the academic performance and attitudes of those who receive tutoring. Tutored students outperformed control students on examinations, and they also developed positive attitudes toward the subject matter covered in the tutorial programs. The meta-analysis also showed that tutoring programs have positive effects on children who serve as tutors. Like the children they helped, the tutors gained a better understanding of and developed more positive attitudes toward the subject matter covered in the tutorial program. Participation in tutoring programs had little or no effect, however, on the self-esteem of tutors and tutees. The tutoring programs offered in many elementary and secondary schools today differ in an important way from yesterday's tutorial programs. In most modern programs, children are tutored by peers or paraprofessionals rather than by regular school teachers or professional tutors. The use of peer and paraprofessional tutors has dramatically affected the availability of tutoring programs. No longer a luxury available only to aristocratic elites, tutoring programs today are open to boys and girls in ordinary classrooms throughout the country. Hundreds of teachers and researchers already...
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...Part I: Teaching and Learning Styles S utilize a variety of teaching modalities, such as small group process, lecture, and experiential activities S be flexible and meet each learner’s needs S provide information that will overlap with information learners already have S reiterate and reinforce information throughout the session TYPES OF LEARNERS To understand how to move from passive to active learning, it is important to understand the different types of learners. There are four primary learning styles: visual, auditory, read-write, and kinesthetic. People learn using a variety of these methods, but one method is usually predominant. Familiarity with the characteristics of each learning style and associated strategies allows you to address the needs of each type of learner. Visual Learners Visual learners are characterized by the following: S They tend to be fast talkers. S They exhibit impatience and have a tendency to interrupt. S They use words and phrases that evoke visual images. S They learn by seeing and visualizing. Your teaching strategy for visual learners should include the use of demonstrations and visually pleasing materials, and you should make an effort to paint mental pictures for learners. Auditory Learners Auditory learners are characterized by the following: S They speak slowly and tend to be natural listeners. S They think in a linear manner. 11 Part I: Teaching and Learning Styles S They prefer to have things explained to them verbally...
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...OF THE PRE-SERVICE TEACHING PRACTICE IN SYLLABUS D OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE MAJOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF HOLGUÍN. AUTHORESS: Beatriz María Chang Peña. TUTORESS: Lena Álvarez Monterrey. English Language Major 2013-2014 INTRODUCTION: The English Language Major, as all university majors in Cuba, comprises three main components: academic, pre-professional practice and research. Students generally respond in a more positive way to the academic component than to the pre-professional practice and research components. This happens because the time table for the lessons is followed rigorously, evaluation is almost always present, among other important factors that impact the students’ viewpoints regarding the teaching-learning process. Also, professors don’t attribute the same importance they give to the academic component to the research and professional pre-practice components. Moreover, students consider this latter to be the less welcomed, since most of them do not bear in mind that the teaching of foreign languages is one of their professional profiles. Most of the English Language students are only interested in the profiles of Translators, Interpreters and Communicators; then they are not motivated towards the pedagogical side of their major. The Discipline Didactics of Foreign Languages Teaching includes a pre-professional practice in which students are meant to prepare and teach a language course under the supervision of a professor. This Teaching Practice is intended...
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...Dictionary of Education: Language of Teaching and Learning Name Institution Article Notes and Critique No. 1 Ali, M.S. (2007). Dictionary of education: Language of teaching and learning. Bloomington, IN: Author House. Description of problem addressed in study: Learning in preschool depends highly on the teachers’ cues. Different cues of different teachers have different impact on word leaning on pupils in preschool. For a better understanding and proper learning of children requires the best cues which highly depend on the teachers. Therefore, different teachers’ impact learning differently. Description of the purpose of the study: The study taken by Saylor and Carroll was to find out the impact of different cues had on a three year old Childs’ understanding. The study focused specifically word learning through direct physical cues and indirect cues as well as verbal cues. The purpose of the research was focused on the impact of different types of cues and how knowledge was shared between the child and the teacher. Listing of the study’s research questions and/or hypotheses: the researchers used questions to get their purposes achieved and these are just an example of the questions the researchers may have used 1) Did the pupils understand the words better when taught by someone they knew? 2) Was learning different and better when taught by a teacher they knew because of direct physical cues given? Some o f the expectations researchers...
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...families with all types of backgrounds. Our motto is Education is worth the work. We will install that into all of our patrons and offer the greatest services at reasonable prices. Environmental Analysis 1+1 Tutoring Services is a small North Carolina base company located in Rocky Mount that will offer tutoring services in a wide variety of subjects. The company employs five tutors who are all college graduates who have degrees in a wide variety of subjects. The tutors are myself the owner and operator who has a degree in Business Management; Anthony Battle who has degree in English and Spanish and took several foreign language classes in college; Melissa Smith who has a degree in Mathematics; Angela Caudle and Russell Rouse who have teaching degrees and are certified to teach grades K-12th in all subjects and special education. A. Marketing Environment 1. Completive Forces: There are currently four companies in Rocky Mount, North Carolina that offer tutoring services. But there are currently 10 well know online tutoring services in the United...
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...Teaching is the transmission of knowledge and experience from our teacher to students and how to judge a good teaching is indefinable and arguable, because it is involve much judging element and it could be bias. However, I always defined a good teaching depending on how interesting the teacher is and what skills or experience the teacher delivering, which seems very superficial. Biggs (1999) states that there are three theories affecting each other to forming a good teaching or saying an interactive system. According to Biggs (1999), the first theory demonstrating that teachers focus on students’ difference, which is the responsibility for the teacher is to delivering the information to students, normally by the lecture. This model requires students need to be carefully listen to the lecture and making their own notes, do the reading after class to reinforcing the knowledge. However, for that student who does not have motivation and interest to study, they will basically lose the meaning of learning. This style of teaching is lack of concerning what actually a student does while teachers are teaching. Personally, I think these style of teaching is low efficient and rarely get student to thinking the problem. The second theory is about what teacher does, this time is blame on teacher. Teacher can have a good teaching class with adequate preparation and using different media tool to teaching. For my experience studying at university, I can tell that it is important for teacher...
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...Motivation in learning and teaching Introduction Teachers play the first and foremost role in undermining or enhancing the motivation of students. They can facilitate self determination and essential motivation to students if the teachers are in practice of autonomy supporting style. Such a motivation is also likely to create positive consequences among students. The students of such a teacher will be less distracted in their classes and will be anxious to what is being taught. He will be associated with more positive emotions and his learning will be comprehension centered and will be ready to put more effort in his studies. He will gain better grades in class and there is only very less chance for a drop out. Only those teachers who are motivated will be able to motivate their students. Within disciplines of psychology motivation is an important aspect in both teaching as well as in learning. Hence motivation is to be considered from the perspective of both teacher and student. Definition The word motivation comes from a Latin word meaning movement (Steers, Mowday and Shapiro 2004, 379 as cited in degree essays, 2011). Motivation can be defined as the state or internal condition that directs the behavior of a person. It is the process determining the action of a person or the fact on the basis of which a person chooses to act and not to act in another way. According to (Pintrich and Schunk. 1996 ) motivation is directly related to achievement made by a person. An...
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...PGCE Secondary Mathematics: Assignment 1 – The Teaching and Learning of Mathematics Part 1: The Nature and Place of Mathematics in the School Curriculum When I studied maths at secondary school I had no real understanding of its importance in our society, I enjoyed the satisfaction of solving problems but, like many young people, believed that maths was going to be unnecessary in the real world. As an adult it became abundantly clear to me that mathematics was a vital component in not just personal success but in the success of society. The notion of what mathematics should be taught and how it should be taught differs dramatically between different educational ideologies; Industrial Pragmatist, Mathematical Purists, Progressive Educator and Social Reformer. These ideologies are not real groups or organisations but represent the competing influences in mathematics education. “The industrial pragmatists see mathematics as an established collection of very useful techniques and skills that can be applied to a large range of technical and scientific contexts.” (Johnston-Wilder, Johnston-Wilder, Primm, & Lee, 2011) Mathematics is needed in the school curriculum for the prosperity of our country; industry needs the future workforce to have the necessary skills to push the economy forward. For this reason it is seen as important for education to provide good standards of numeracy, data handling skills and use of ICT. Although I acknowledge this is an important requirement...
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...families prefer to send their children to go abroad for educations wither in the developed countries or in the developing countries. Especially in China, the officially figure given about the quantity of student go abroad for education was approach 400,000 in 2012. However, the average age of student go abroad for becoming lower these years. This cased by the teenagers (age from 13-18) take a large proportion of students go broad for education. So, the argument of should teenagers in China suitable to go abroad for education putted forward to be a social issue. People who support the points of teenagers should to go abroad for education mainly consider three benefits from study abroad. Firstly, supporters think that teenagers can at least learning a foreign language well after they complete their study in other country. For example, more and more Chinese families send their children to British, US, Australia or Canada, these English spoken country for study. They believe that the English language environment in these countries are much better than China. What’s more, it will be perfectly that teenagers can improve their English level and complete their major study at the same time. Secondly, teenagers can realize different culture from other international students. The supporters think that the different life experience will help these teenagers more tenable in the future. Finally, teenagers go abroad for education will also enhance their sense of independence naturally and eventually...
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...the Tutoring Center, they didn’t know what it was or what it offered. Upon further investigation of the campus tutoring center, I learned the tutoring center can help with any subject including accounting, business, CADD, computer science, ESL, foreign languages, humanities, math, science, social science, writing (any subject), and any other subjects upon request. The Tutoring Center is located in Room 110, West Campus. The fall and Spring Semester hours are Monday - Thursday: 9:30 am to 9:00 pm, Friday: 9:30- am to 2:00 pm, Saturday: 10:00 am - 3:00 and Sunday it’s closed. The tutoring center is a nice quiet place to get your work done while asking vital questions to learning the material you did not understand. Every tutor in the tutoring center is internationally certified through the College Reading and Learning Association which means they are able to help anyone understand what they need to learn for classes. Although the tutoring center cannot help with take home tests, do someone’s homework for them, or teach them new material they missed in class, they are a major resource on campus to help further a college education. They will enhance all the subject of problem and put the any individual’s mind at ease when it comes to...
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...Name:Sally Date:18/10 Class Name:Vermont International Education and Foreign Languages as crucial elements of education Have you noticed that foreign languages can be seen and heard here and there ?Indeed, currently, a number of people are learning a foreign language to not only improve themselves but also attempt to acclimatize themselves to a new environment. Thus, learning foreign languages and absorbing international education is of vital importance. English has always been children’s friend.For me, when I was a baby,my parents and other relatives taught me some simple words, such as apple, banana, mother, pen, and so on. They said the word and I found out which picture could replace the word. Day by day, I welcomed English and it became my sweetheart. Actually, besides me, plenty of children had a meaningful childhood with the accompaniment of English, which has something to do with schools’ measures. In China, there must be foreign language courses at school. Nowadays, more and more bilingual schools which set two different language courses have been set up. Moreover, there even have been at least 3 universities that provide international education and in which all the courses are shown in English. Anyway, schools play an essential part in propagating international education and foreign languages. At the same time, a great mass of graduated students choose to go abroad for further study, because of the significant influence of some united international...
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...In my opinion, learning foreign languages is extremely difficult because there are many countries which have their own languages and also have different in their social culture. People who try to learn foreign languages suppose to practice as much as they can by using some techniques for supporting what the best they can do. They need to concentrate in all skill of communications which are reading, writing, listening and speaking. However the techniques from my suggestion are very simply for everyone. Firstly, the learners should try to stop thinking in own language. People who want to be rapidly improve should be awareness because when they are not realize in their own language, the only way they could do is imagine in foreign language that they need to practice. Therefore, they will automatically speak in foreign language. This is very simple technique even though it is slightly difficult when the lesson has been started in first month. Secondly, travelling around the country which uses the language they want to learn. This technique is very useful for practicing in speaking and listening skills. People around the country could help learners to improve. However, the crucial point that must be concerned for this technique is the travelling should have by themselves (or only with their foreign friend) otherwise they could not receive an advantage from this practice lesson due to their friends who try to interrupt them by their own language. Finally, reading many books...
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...homework and tests after they are graded. It is important for students to review questions that were missed on an assignment so they can answer the question correctly the next time. This also allows the tutor to make sure the student understands missed concepts. * 3. Teach study skills, test-taking strategies and organization skills. All of these play a vital role in student success. Tutors can spend a few minutes of each tutoring session emphasizing these skills and teaching students how to use them. * 4. Encourage peer tutoring. An effective method helping students understand a concept is peer tutoring. Fellow classmates or older students can serve as peer tutors to struggling students. This technique has proven successful because, at times, students feel comfortable with other students, and tutors can explain a concept how they understand it. This explanation can differ from the teacher’s lesson. * 5. Provide interactive, hands-on reinforcement of the lesson learned in class. Tutors are not teaching new information, but...
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