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¶ … Learner
When asked why an individual wishes to attend college, quite often the expected response is 'to get a better job.' Perhaps in response to this phenomena, the second section of Orientation to College: A Reader on Becoming an Educated Person, a selection of essays assembled by Elizabeth Steltenpohl, Sharon Villines, and Jane Shipton, is entitled "Developing as a Learner." In this section, the editors address one of the most important and often unacknowledged processes a student must proceed through when facing the challenging transition from high school to college. In addition to adapting to a different way of life, students must also adapt to a different method of learning.
This second section of text, entitled 'Developing as a Learner' is divided into three sections, all authored by different and prominent leaders from different facets of educated life. In the section entitled "Thinking and Learning: Learning Systematically from Everyday Experience," Robert M. Smith stresses the fact that the division individuals often make between school and life is often an artificial one. One must be learning constantly over the course of one's life, not simply in the classroom. One should apply the lessons learned in daily life to life in the classroom, and life in the classroom to what one sees outside. The last essay of this part of the section of part two, "Changing...
The essay suggests that received conceptions of education are being challenged within the classroom, and must be challenged by individual students who wish their education to be relevant to a changing workplace and personal sphere. The essays addressing the real world/college world distinction all stress that college is a unique institution, yet one whose values and experiences on all levels will stay with one for the rest of one's life. College also does not stand apart from life; rather the experiences one has in college are informed by life outside.
More focused on the actual facets of learned life in the classroom, in his essay "Exploring Learner's Assumptions," Stephen D. Brookfield inspires individuals reading his work to question the assumptions they bring to the classroom. In a slight departure from Smith's analysis, Brookfield is more interested in how the assumptions of one's daily existence can inhibit broadmindedness and an open attitude towards instructors intent on questioning received assumptions in college. Brookfield is more interested in college's unique quality, and of the advantages one can gain from standing outside, temporarily, upon the workforce and received assumptions. College can give a student the privilege of being reflective, for a brief time. "Developmental Foundations of…
There were also notable evaluation pointers, with a constant feedback mechanism used in order to further improve the learning process and the teaching skills. One should, however, note, among issues to be improved in the future, the inability to uniformly distribute teaching attention among different areas of study. The example with Jenna is eloquent in this sense. The excitement over an obviously gifted child in certain areas led to the
Significant as so many of these subjective decisions are, they would benefit from a history of self-reflection and continuous learning. Learner-centered principles has both its advantages and disadvantages where disadvantages include the student misinterpreting the transmitted knowledge and diminishing the importance of classical wisdom by insisting that one's own reflections were superior to that taught. Taken to an extreme, this can result in negative health and life-impacting casualties. Advantages, however,
Physical and mental disorders are often comorbid, reflecting an entire system that is out of balance. A healthy state, both physically and mentally reflects a state of equilibrium and stability that every organism wishes to achieve (Wallace, 2008).When one portion of the system is out of balance, the entire system can be out of balance. The degree to which the system is out of balance determines the degree of
Climate of Creativity: Teaching English to Young Learners Through the Art of Drama Several learning and involving learning experiences emerge for the early childhood students when both drama and movement are incorporated in the daily syllabus (Chauhan, 2004). Apart from being "fun" for majority of the kids, kinesthetic activities are capable of assisting the young students, particularly those learning the English language, improve interpretation skills, vocabulary, fluency, speech knowledge, syntactic
In certain countries, an effective supervisor possesses basic teaching skills, facilitation skills, negotiation and assertiveness skills, counseling and appraisal skills, mentoring skills, and knowledge of learning resources and certification requirements (Kilminster). The most important aspect of the role of an effective supervisor is giving supervisee responsibility and the opportunity to practice it (Kilminster, 2000). Supervisees come to view the supervisor as a colleague and this leads them to become self-directed.
For countries such as the U.S. And France, these needs can be reasonably expected to relate to the respective national cultures involved. For instance, in their book, Education in France, Corbett and Moon (1996) report, "An education system needs to justify itself constantly by reference to the values which underpin a nation's culture. In a democracy it is expected to transmit a range of intellectual, aesthetic and moral values