Higher Learning

accomplish many of my goals. I must acknowledge that several of the instructors helped me stay focused on reaching my goals. Through learning higher order thinking, knowledge and skills to appreciate the Liberal Arts program and academic values, gives me the knowledge for encouraging others in their life determination of success. In my pursuit of developing higher order thinking skills I acquired tools of applying principles and generalizations of psychology in new problematic situations I…

can you take the most uninteresting class and learn the material for life? This isn 't an easy task by far, but as the saying goes if it 's easy it 's most likely not worth it. You have to work hard for the better things in life, the same goes for learning. The reason people go to college is to learn and retain what will be required to achieve the career that is planned. So why pay thousands of dollars to cram information in for the test, incredibly frazzled, and unfortunately, forget…

educated person possesses. He uses the trades that he learned in the education system to continue the learning process until the end of his life, making him a lifelong learner. During this process, he remains humble about who he is and his curiosity about the world drives him to find truth in all information. Characteristics of an Educated Person Introduction…

Many research studies inform us that vocabulary learning is an essential component of early literacy achievement, oral language mastery, and reading comprehension. Then we ask ourselves, what exactly is vocabulary? Vocabulary is the body of words we learn to read and use every day. An essential element of early reading development is learning the meanings of these new vocabulary words (Marulis, & Neuman, 2010). Vocabulary development is especially important at a young age as it will guide…

(classical and operant conditioning) and cognitive learning theories; because it encompasses behavior, but also deals with attention, memory, and motivation. In the 1960s, Albert Bandura’s Social Cognitive Theory theorizes people learn from one another through observation, imitation, and modeling. People learn by observing each other’s behaviors and the outcomes and consequences that result from their modeled behaviors. A great deal of human learning occurs when we watch and interact with other…

EDU 203 Portfolio Artifact # 4 Our future is the students of today. Each and every student has the potential to set high standards and strive for even higher goals through education. Teaching is a meaningful and respectful career that requires commitment. A SPED teacher takes an extraordinary individual that truly is dedicated to each different personality and wholeheartedly strives to teach each one of them. A teacher has the opportunity to impact a student's’ life in a positive way; this is a…

support the zone of proximal development (ZPD) (Woolfolk &Margetts 2013, p. 101). This is a strength of Vygotsky’s theory as the ZPD is focused on performing tasks at higher levels, which the child is not normally capable of (Vygotsky 1978, pp. 86-87). As make-believe play usually takes the role of a person or act which involve higher levels of thinking, children are continually being pushed beyond their ZPD (Vygotsky 1978, p. 102). An example being, I recall many times pretending to be a…

their workplace achievements as well as academic achievements. Similarly, students’ achievements in their classrooms are also thought to be in direct relation to their intelligence. So, what of students who face various learning difficulties? Trying to help students with learning difficulties is the culmination of various factors, the teachers and the school and the steps they take to provide help as well as professional help, and other helpful guidelines. On the other…

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow participants to learn what they are interested in by a click of a mouse. In simplest terms, “MOOCs is a tool for democratizing higher education” (Lewin, 2012). Motivated students who lack access to higher education can take online courses for free or at a low cost and work towards a certificate rather than a degree. Courses are offered by universities who partner up with organizations. These organizations act as a platform hosting hundreds of different…

According to Dornyei (1994), “motivation is one of the main determinants of second/foreign language (L2) learning achievement” (273). Song (2002) goes further to claim that: “Research shows that motivation directly influences how much students interact with target language speakers, how much input they receive in the target language, how often they use L2…