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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Your genes are not your destiny. In the latest mega-study‚ researchers at King’s College London‚ followed over 13‚000 pairs of twins over a period of 12 years and came up with a genetic and environmental hotspot map showing that the weighting given to genetics versus environment in one’s development is strongly influenced by one’s geographic location. At first blush‚ these findings sound fairly obvious. After all‚ isn’t the whole point of nature versus nurture to show that environment plays as
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responsibilities that every teacher and professional in the lifelong learning sector must meet. As a learning coach in the sixth form department in Reading College I must always expect that all students can and will achieve their set goals. I treat all students as individuals who learn at different rates and in different ways. My responsibility is to prepare appropriate lesson plans that would facilitate learning process and identify additional learning requirements for my students. It is also my responsibility
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and behave in the classroom by comparing them with their ancestors and how they were behaving in the classroom. Ethnicity also helps teachers to analyze students and their level of competence and intellect to adjust teachers’ approaches to teaching‚ refine them‚ and even change them. Also‚ it is essential that teachers know the ethnicity of students to evade taking about some issues that bother or make students uncomfortable in the classroom environment. Some issues make students feel
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intimacy was based on unbalanced time-sharing and other reasons for not maintaining something that could stick and stay. What bothers me more is when their mannerisms change‚ they become incognito‚ and make themselves scarce once they feel that things are not conducive to their train of thought as opposed to seeing how the friendship can be saved for the long term. Yes‚ people have motives that they tend to hold close to vest and out of your sight. Now comes the time for me to assess those that fit
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Guide Directions: Answer the following questions after reading chapter one of The Pearl. Refer to the text and cite evidence to support your claims and conclusions. YOU MUST WRITE IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. Remember the RACE strategy! RESTATE the question & ANSWER the question in the first sentence. CITE the source (where did you find your answer?) EXPLAIN your response What is a parable and why do you suppose that Steinbeck calls our attention to this in his preface? A parable is a word that means
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process of learning is critically important in all human beings and understanding your individual learning style is key for effective learning. Learning styles is defined as the composite of characteristic cognitive‚ affective‚ and physiological factors that serve as relatively stable indicators of how a learner perceives‚ interacts with‚ and responds to the learning environment (Keefe‚ 1979). Learning style is the way each person absorbs‚ understands and uses information. Some of our learning style
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ENGL 1A April 10‚ 2014 Nathan Maertens A Response to “Learning: Your First Job” In the article “Learning: Your First Job‚” Robert Leamson provides several suggestions especially for college freshmen about how to be a successful student. First of all‚ one of the tips he gives is that making the best notes as you can. Although it is a matter of course‚ it is actually difficult to listen to the instructor and make sense while taking notes. Moreover‚ many teachers mention important things verbally
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a range of different assessment methods available for a tutor to use throughout the teaching/training cycle and explain the ones you would use in the context of your subject area. Justify the types of records you would keep for assessment and in the wider context of your teaching. Assessments are the way to find out if learning has actually taken place. Enabling us‚ as tutors‚ to see if objectives have been met. The teaching training cycle begins with an initial assessment of the learners
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new insights into the way language works (for example‚ how words can be ordered and how imagery can be used) and into the different text forms. A great deal of implicit learning occurs when children are read to. Reading aloud is appropriate for all students‚ including those who already read accurately and fluently. This teaching approach can be used effectively with both large and small groups. Students who have had limited experiences with books‚ or who are receptive rather than active learners
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