James Hartley (1998) has favorably illustrated some of the essential standards of learning connected with cognitive behaviors. As stated, learning develops from assumptions, anticipation and creating connections. Some of the standards recognized prepared with instructions being sufficiently arranged and definitely structured. Previous awareness is important. Opposing views between human being are crucial as they will influence learning. Psychological response gives tips to learners about their accomplishments or loss regarding the assignment at hand. Support can advance by ways of giving information (Hartley, 1998).
Using cues, questions and advance organizers at the start of instructions or group focuses on learning on the crucial fulfillment to come. They can also stimulate students by clicking into their interest and concern of the topic. Cognitivists centers on learning as the mental process acknowledges when data embarks through the senses, withstanding mental guidance, gathered and is finally disposed (Pitler, Hubbell & Kuhn, 2012).
A summary plan is really an advance organizer or group of teacher provided notes designed to assist student's attention on what is significant as they are reading or watching a video. As our son attends virtual school in the 9th grade, he has to create many power points for his language art lessons. Recently he had to prepare a report on the book " The Outsiders". He was able to pull summary notes from various websites pertaining to the book which was helpful in preparing the report. Next he took the notes and wrote them in his own words, a summary of the new information found. Being able to take notes and summarize them that will be helpful in learning is vital in preparing students for the future (Pitler, Hubbell & Kuhn, 2012).
Every student acquire information differently. There are different approaches that an individual learns from. Specific mental characteristics are also probably to impact how the individual might satisfyingly learn. Recognition and acknowledgement of students' mental choices can help a teacher construct instructions that are compatible with these choices (Lever-Duffy & McDonald, 2008).
After a period of time by with using cues, questions and advance organizers, the use of multimedia within instructions assist students to stay committed and on point with learning. I mostly try to do whatever it takes to keep students from becoming bored or wandering off to sleep. In class on a daily basis, students will watch a video of the alphabet assigned for the week and then be able to answer questions pertaining to the lesson taught. Using these type instructional strategies will help the students stay engaged with the lesson taught and hopefully students will retain much of the information for future use (Pitler, Hubbell & Kuhn, 2012).
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Hartley, J. (1998). Learning and
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Lever-Duffy, J., & McDonald,
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This is a great blog! Reading your blog reminded me of the importance of recognizing the differences in student's learning styles and the method in which they process information. As teachers, we get caught up with planning the perfect lesson rather than the lesson that is best suited for our students.
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Hi Jodi:
ReplyDeleteIt is so easy to be caught up with planning. Then we sometimes not meaning to do so forget that often there are times when our lesson plan has to be altered in order to better serve our student's needs.
Thanks for sharing and have a good week!
Michelle
Michelle, I really enjoyed your blog. After reading it, I realized once again the importance of knowing who your students are and how they learn so that we are able to serve them better. I agree with you that most students are visual learners, my issue is that with the fact that I teach high school French, it is not always easy to find visuals when teaching a foreign language. I am always using myself when I teach so that my students can have somewhat of a visual. Can you give me any ideas as to how I may be able to work out getting visuals to aid in teaching my students? Thanks in advance
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Hi Vanessa:
ReplyDeleteThe visual that comes to mind is when I worked with the 3rd-5th graders was the special class (French) that students attended three times a week. The lady that taught this class would use a large screen television and DVDs that helped to teach the lessons.The teacher taught right along with the DVD, pausing and stopping as needed. The kids were very active in participating because of the various pictures included in the videos. Our 21st Century students loves just about anything dealing with a video screen of some kind. This method held their attention and students were ready to learn by their input.
Michelle
Hi Michelle,
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog! I myself is still experiencing the episodic memory! Reading your blog gave me flashes of memories in classroom. Virtual memory, I have used it for years and memories of my teaching using that strategy keeps on flashing in my brain. I believe that students are experiencing the same when they see pictures and or read words that is connected to a memory or information, and the student's recalling information has been opened to share this previous memory and connect it with the current information. Giving students with engaging, challenging and intuitive learning activities will help them understand more and deeply of the material by connecting the experience, information, and situation.
Thank you for sharing!
Alpha
MIchelle:
ReplyDeleteI agree that "After a period of time by with using cues, questions and advance organizers, the use of multimedia within instructions assist students to stay committed and on point with learning. I mostly try to do whatever it takes to keep students from becoming bored or wandering off to sleep. In class on a daily basis, students will watch a video of the alphabet assigned for the week and then be able to answer questions pertaining to the lesson taught. Using these type instructional strategies will help the students stay engaged with the lesson taught and hopefully students will retain much of the information for future use", and that is precisely what any educator must pursue, to avoid that our students become bored and shut down from learning. Sometimes that is not an easy task, but we must have a knowledge of the learning styles and preferences of our students. I have found out that the use of technology and manipulates or foldable helps them to be engaged and focused. In my class we were watching videos, but know with this week tools, instead of videos, they will be virtual fields trips, and they will be using mapping tools a lot more often to help them organize and internalize information better, in a more efficient way.
Videos always touch us a different levels depending of our own perceptions, therefore it is important to incorporate them and give students opportunities to express their perceptions and explain their reasoning while learning at school, in other words, help them to develop meta cognitive experiences to analyze their own learning.