Annotated Bibliography: Student Learning

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Annotated Bibliography: Student Learning: Marsh, C. (2010). How students develop and learn. Becoming a teacher: Knowledge, skills and issues. (5th ed., pp. 38-56). Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Australia. Marsh’s book explores the different theories that have been discovered into how students develop and learn. Taking a more theoretical approach to becoming a teacher, marsh’s book goes into difficulties a teacher could encounter and gives an insight into preparing pre – service teachers for the challenges they may face in the 21st century classroom. As well as giving an understanding on teaching itself, Marsh’s book focuses on the students in the classroom and how they adapt as they grow by ultimately changing from one stage to another. This allows the reader to learn not only about the classroom but learning how to adapt their teaching methods when it comes to a different variety of students learning abilities and the change throughout the learning stages. Smart, K., & Csabo, N. (2007). Learning By Doing. Business Communication Quarterly, 76 (4) pp. 451-456. This article explores the advantages to student learning and how an engaged student will learn at the peak of their ability. This article explains to the reader that introducing a teaching method that not only provides the students with knowledge, but does it in a way that actively engages them in something that they will have more interest in. This type of learning means that they have the control over their own ability to learn and adds a sense of applying their knowledge in real life situation. Whilst covering facts and resourced information, the article explains ways to implement these teaching methods and specify them to different student’s abilities. This article show... ... middle of paper ... ...act this. Studies have shown that self-control and positive behaviour can be contagious within a classroom (Lehrer, 2010), in which the same aspect can be seen with negativity. This book focuses on good teaching and ways that a teacher can turn a student’s thoughts of feeling negative about schooling to positive by discussing ways in which the teacher can approach these situations whilst taking in mind the physiological and psychological changes that students go through. Ferlazzo in this book has chosen to focus on the teacher as the role model in the class and how their attitude towards learning can greatly impact on how the student will learn and succeed within the classroom. Marsh, C. (2010). How students develop and learn. Becoming a teacher: Knowledge, skills and issues. (5th ed., pp. 38-56). Frenchs Forest, NSW: Pearson Australia.

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