Lifelong learning

realized that critical thinking is not only one of the many higher education goals, but it is a method of teaching and learning at higher effectiveness. I have learned to use the trends to support a high level of thinking. Acquiring a commitment to critical thinking enables one to think through the instructional design and how I think of the…

teaching philosophy, therefore, will be to impact the same qualities and characteristic to my students, by showing them the path to excellence is through experiences, skills, critical thinking, developing good decision-making skill and reflections on lifelong experiences. One of the many qualities of an educator is being passionate and enthusiastic about teaching, and that correlates with the student’s desire and hunger to assimilate the knowledge being impacted by the teacher. It is my fervent…

From a young age, I thought of the library as a place of wonder and learning. Every chance I got during my early school years, I went to the library and checked out multiple books at a time. The head librarian inspired me to pursue reading and lifelong learning. Every week during the scheduled library time, she always had a theme planned and would often decorate the library to correspond. The most memorable weeks for me were the Greek Mythology week and the Halloween week. I will always remember…

Learning, for me, is a lifelong process and we are lifelong learners. I believe learning is not a product, it is a change. We need to accept and adapt to the newer skills so that learning happens more effectively. Before doing the CICTL, I use to think that one grows professionally when a person practices a skill. The more practice and experienced you are, the best you can give. But after the training I look at the PDQ my whole prospectus regarding learning has completely changed. There is so…

student relationships. Unaware of the lifelong commitment to one individual teacher, Mark also began learning a different form of martial arts from Teacher Hei. When teacher pan discovered this he quickly abandoned teaching Mark because he felt betrayed by Mark, an American student who he risked so much for. In the end Teacher Pan forgave Mark and sent hm back to America to teach his own students. It was this conflict that taught Mark the importance of the lifelong teacher-student relationship…

oriented. The overarching objective is to equip students with 21st century skills and a quest for lifelong learning (Australian Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting Authority, 2012, pp. 4, 5, 28). The challenge for teachers working at the crossroads of these varying discourses in the classroom is to translate the curriculum in a manner that places each student at the centre of teaching and learning in a encouraging and intellectually challenging manner. This paper will compare and contrast…

111). Ellerton (2014a) suggests that critical thinking is structured with four key areas (i) argumentation (ii) logic, (iii) psychology and (iv) the nature of science. Firstly, argumentation, Ellerton suggests is the most powerful framework for learning as it is the process of intellectual engagement with an issue and that arguments have premises involving what we take to be true for a purpose of the argument and conclusions that are arrived at by inferring from the premises (2014a). Secondly,…

dental education, and one likely to lead toward deeper learning along with the development of critical thinking” which shows that there has not been an improvement in the last 13 years despite the educational benefits it brings. Reviewing the GDC educational standards for dentistry and the CDA standards for Orofacial Pain Programs, I realized that both only enumerate the type of soft skills competencies needed like critical thinking, lifelong learning and communication skills among others, but…

mold a children learning and knowledge acquisition (McLeod, 2009). Piaget’s Cognitive Theory is composed of three basic components, the schemas, the adaptation processes that helps transitions from one stage to the other (equilibrium, assimilation,…

Focus and Extension #1 Five Key Learnings: • Wiggins and McTighe (2005) state that “The ability to transfer our knowledge and skill involves the capacity to take what we know and use it creatively, flexibly, fluently, in different settings or problems, on our own” (p. 40). We are only able to teach a limited amount of skills in a relatively short time frame. It is our hope that students will be able to take what they have learned and apply it to many different situations and aspects of…