styles of adult learners. I now better understand how this ultimately will improve learners’ chances of successfully completing the course or workshop they are attending. Improving my Converging Learning Style characteristics Over the past few weeks I have taken steps towards improving my Converging Learning Style. It is hard to clearly state if I have successfully achieved the level I first thought I would potential obtain. Yes I have implemented characteristics of a Converging Learner which…
that the learner can benefit the most from the program. The learner population or target audience is ideal to determine initially since, as described in the assumptions of Knowles, the role of the learner 's experience is essential to andragogy. PART B. Once the target audience is selected and the general topic has also been selected, program developers must determine the objectives to be covered and the main goals of the program. Adapting the objectives to the subjective needs of the learners…
personalized feedback enhances the teaching presence in a course. Written or verbal communication and interaction highly contributes to a learner, together with direction and structure. Teaching is also learning experience and the students are also encouraged to add…
information. Not everyone can receive the information the same way and retain it for future use. Some people are visual learners, aural learners, kinesthetic learners, or learn best by reading and writing the information. The VARK Learning assessment was an interesting tool that informed me of the exact type of learner I am. This assessment placed me into the kinesthetic learner group. This explains many issues I had in the past with finding myself drifting off in class while the teacher would…
core teaching standards describe what teachers should know and be able to do in today’s learning context to ensure student teacher these learning goals (CCSSO, 2011). The key themes that are represented throughout the InTASC Teaching Standards are learner and learning, knowledge of content area, instructional practice, and established professional…
first reason would be that critical thinking helps learners to improve their thinking which makes it possible for learners to “take charge of their own thinking” (Shirkhani and Fahim 2011: 112). To put it another way, through taking charge of their own thinking learners raise their consciousness and, as a result, can self-regulate their learning more efficiently. The second reason is that “critical thinking expands the learning experience of the learners and makes the language more meaningful…
1. When considering the theories of oral language development, which do you feel best explains your own viewpoint and why? The Social Interactionist Viewpoint explains my viewpoint of language development. Lev Vygotsky built on Piaget’s Constructionist theories that oral language is predetermined and without cognition language development is limited. Piaget developed the idea of stages of language development, although he recognized that not all children reach the final Abstract Reasoning…
factors that can predict the success of the learner during the teaching (Bastable, 2014). Both the health promotion model and the cognitive learning theory encourage the active participation of the learner and family in a organized structured setting with goals and expectations with support of their loved ones (Bastable, 2014). This is especially useful for the young adult in the intimacy versus isolation as it gives the opportunity to the learner to have the support from their partner…
We know that the learners in Australia are located in remote areas with unstable Internet connection and where bandwidth is limited. The technology agreed upon that will be used for the delivery of the program must be a format that provides the learner with uninterrupted access. For this program the corporate client would like to house both the knowledge training as well as the competency…
interested in having a turn to play, gain points and to win, for these reasons you can expect full classroom participation, making it easier to for a teacher to present new ideas, grammar, vocabulary, etc. It can be clearly seen that games can grasp learners' concentration and involvement. They inspire the students to have the desire to learn even more. Additionally, games transform a dull class into a stimulating and exciting…