your presentation. Through working in a special school‚ teaching Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) I have had to adjust my teaching and own assessment practices to meet a range of disabilities‚ all the children at School‚ have a statement of special needs. These needs include mild medical issues‚ developmental disorders including ADHD and Dyspraxia‚ autism and behavioural‚ emotional and social issues. Ways in which we assess the learning of these students has been adapted and changed to suit their
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Wk. 2 Learning and Teaching Styles “In almost every actual well-designed study‚ Mr. Pashler and his colleagues write in their paper‚ ‘Learning Styles: Concepts and Evidence‚’ the pattern is similar: For a given lesson‚ one instructional technique turns out to be optimal for all groups of students‚ even though students with certain learning styles may not love that technique.” (2009) I wanted to start this paper with this quote since it did involve some sort of evidence that teaching in one style
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TQ4 Teaching and Learning approaches (Ass. Crit. 2.1) Education is an ever-changing part of society. A teacher is faced with new challenges and difficulty that have never been dealt with before. Learners come with different life stories. Every student has strengths and weaknesses that reflect in the group. As a Teacher I must understand and focus on utilizing each student ’s strengths and work to improve weaknesses. Learners learn in a variety of ways and from one another. The ideas and view each
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& Jones‚ P 2012‚ p44) with children from socially disadvantaged backgrounds in urban Sydney resulted in the development of a pedagogical model of how to effectively teach literacy in a learning environment. This model is now known as the teaching and learning cycle. The model originally had an emphasis on teaching young students how to write but has changed and adapted over time with greater understanding about pedagogy and genre and now involves reading‚ listening‚ talking and writing within a supportive
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Learning can be described as a course of action that encompasses a variety of influences and experiences in order to obtain‚ change or develop a person’s understanding‚ ability and vision. The learning process concentrates on what happens when learning occurs. A great deal of information and research discusses the various perspectives and theories of learning. Theories in child development have evolved over time in order to improve children’s lives and assist educators by providing frameworks for
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Teaching‚ learning and assessment have been the three main focus points for this unit of study. Teaching today is thought of differently to the way it has been thought of in the past. One major learning point of this was that we now know that students aren’t like tape recorders. Students don’t learn by being told information‚ they construct their own knowledge‚ and they do this better if the teacher provides a constructivist setting in the classroom. In order to teach in the manner expected of
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Teaching and learning styles Teaching styles (methods) There are many different styles or methods of teaching. Research I did showed at least 150 different styles from lecturing to brainstorming and vocabulary drills. I have identified the following styles as most often used: Demonstrations & Practicals/Experiments: When teachers show learners skills while they watch‚ followed by the learners practicing the skill they’ve learnt. Additionally learners may observe and record results of what they
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ITS APPLICATION An Essay (a) Discuss four principles of Constructivism theory. (b) Describe‚ using appropriate examples‚ how you would adapt the selected learning theory in executing four of the central task of teaching in your classroom. ‘The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate “apparently ordinary” people to unusual effort. The tough problem is not in identifying winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary people
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Certificate in Education Word count 3‚832 Monday class Effective Teaching and Learning Assessment Author Tutor Teaching is not just one way‚ giving information to students and expecting them to draw from the information! A teacher (to be professional and effective) also needs to know all the different theories‚ models and learning styles. Embedding models to enable best practice in each session and allow students to absorb valuable information. The tutor is to reflect on
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features can play a part in the type of learning style the child prefers. The personality and genetic makeup of the learner also affects the way in which they perceive and process information differently to other learners. (Gregorc‚ 1982) According Ellis (1985‚ p.14) a learning style is “the more or less consistent way in which a person perceives‚ conceptualizes‚ organizes and recalls information.” Therefore it is extremely vital that teachers adapt their teaching styles within the classroom so that
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