Introduction
There are many factors that play a role in the learning process for every human being. Culture, language, family structure, and disabilities can all affect the ways in which one learns. Some students are visual learners, some auditory learners. Some need structure while others prefer a free-style approach. For some, there are social and environmental factors that can distract during the learning process. Every person is different in the way in which they learn and the amount of time taken to master a skill. A number of students may require many more encounters with a skill or content to make it their own and they are vulnerable to failure without consistent practice, while some students are able to move through the learning process with quick and strong learning capabilities.
Education experts have spent many years planning and revising learning material and student-centered instruction that meets the various differences among learners coming into the 21st century. Furthermore, technology advancements and global competition has forced a shift in paradigm regarding the requirements necessary for educating students from a teaching and learning mentality to a more learner-centered approach. Leaders in education have responded to these demands by becoming more aware of the need for transformational change, developing effective leadership strategies, and ultimately, working toward the difficult goal of changing the mind-sets of a school’s core group and its external relationships within the entire field of education.
Acknowledging the important role every stakeholder plays in providing a quality education to every learner is the first step in efforts to transform school systems, especially instructional st...
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Only now is evidence emerging testifying to the fact that much of the criticism leveled at public schools is exaggerated and misplaced. It is easy to forget that schools reflect what is happening in society, not cause it. Schools of today have recently shown that they are performing better than ever. Unfortunately, the traditional challenges confronting schools have increased dramatically and broadly as the world and students have changed. Now schools are facing drastic change -- necessary change that must take place quickly so students are able to cope in a dramatically changing world of the future. All of the criticism creates fear in teachers and administrators rather than a desire to embrace change.
Howard Gardner’s theory contains eight main multiple intelligence. As the years have progressed there have taken one out and is left with the main seven. These seven are: Linguistic, Mathematical, Spatial, bodily, Musical, Interpersonal, and Intrapersonal. These are found in everyone; however, each person will excel in one or two. Once teachers can determine what intelligence the students will exceed on and teach to their strengths the student will learn much more.
The capability of a person varies from each and every one. Some people can grasp easily but for some it may take time to get information to the mind. the learning styles are divided on the abilities of a person, how he grasps, how he understands the subject, is he capable of listening style, doing style or writing or reading style. In an environment were technology and studies have great importance, the way how a person understands things are widely important. The complex manner in which, and conditions under which, learners most efficiently and most effectively perceive, process, store, and recall what they are attempting to learn (James & Gardner, 1995). There are poor learners, quick learners, and theoretical learners. There is no person who can’t learn anything, some might learn theories, some might learn through practices and some learn by seeing what the work is. Through the reflective analysis my passion for learning comes in through reflective style of learning. reflector style of learning is way of learning through reflecting others work in to our practice i.e., we carefully look on to what a professional learner does and get an idea of what he
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Learning is defined as a permanent change in attitude or behaviour that occurs as a result of repeated experience (Sims & Sims, 1995). Understanding one’s learning style has many advantages as it can help one to identify the learning method or activities that can help to optimise the learning experience. It has been suggested that the importance of one’s learning style has been identified through studies and research on how one can maximise the potential for success and further learning development (Honey & Mumford, 2006). Learning styles are unique to each individual and are developed in childhood (Chase, 2001). We all have different personalities; therefore we all have preferred learning styles that suit us best. The way one learns depends on preference. Some learn by observing, listening and imitating others and draw conclusions from their experience. There are several factors that affect our learning style; for example, background, culture, religion and environment can have a major influence on one’s learning.
Introduction: Educational reform is a complex process that requires a change in the mindsets of people undergoing the change process. Changes in educational practices are difficult to illustrate because these include change in practices of individuals, institutions and the system as a whole. Despite frequent change interventions there is very little change in the improvement of the educational outcomes because these changes focus on improved student outcome than the change process. Thus there is a need to rethink practices, redesign interventions that require investing in knowledge, skills and building capacities of teachers and administration that eventually reach parents and community members as well when we think of sustainability. Progressive
The history of the school system in the United States shows that the standard for teaching was centered on meeting the challenges of both the Agricultural Age and the Industrial Age, and according to Duffy (2010), was a fixed approach to teaching, designed for sorting students rather than for learning, in order to educate large numbers of children and to determine laborers from managers. However, the Knowledge Age is requiring stakeholders to reevaluate the requirements necessary for educating our children going forward. This societal paradigm shift is large and pervasive, requiring institutions to co evolve in creating more customized approaches to organization design, serving customers, and providing services so that students can succeed in the twenty-first century Knowledge Age (Duffy, 2010). The purpose of this paper is to share a planned and an unplanned change that has tak...
Each person has their own type of learning style. A learning style is a method in which each of us utilizes to better understand material. A preferred learning style is a style in which the person can learn best, reflecting their strengths and weaknesses of the individual. In order to understand material we take it all in with our senses, through sight, sound, touch, smell or taste. Multiple Intelligence theory maintains that there are at least seven learning styles (“intelligences”): interpersonal, intra-personal, body/kinesthetic, visual/spatial, mathematical/logical, verbal/linguistic and musical/rhythmic (Lazear, D.1991). For the purposes of this paper I will simplify the seven categories into three main categories in which people best learn information: auditory, visual and tactile/kinesthetic. Most people possess the ability to use all three learning styles but learn best using one specific learning style.
Learning is a process that individuals face every day, whether it is in classroom, at work, or surfing the Internet, but each person has a particular style in which they prefer to accomplish this learning. An individual’s learning style is the manner in which that person finds learning to be the easiest for them, and while many individuals have a primary style, everyone uses all the learning styles in various combinations throughout their day and life.
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The decade of the 1980s saw numerous calls for widespread school reform, with changes recommended in teacher education, graduation requirements, school structure, and accountability measures. With the advent of the 1990s, school reform finally to...
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Student-centered teaching is when the focus of the instruction is placed on the student, not the teacher. In this setting, teachers act as a facilitator, not as an instructor during class discussions and activies. When the instruction is placed on the students, they become active participants in the learning, often times through doing, which results in psychomotor experiences (Social Reconstructionism). An example of student centered teaching which would encourage the reconstruction of society through education is allowing the students to create their own classroom rules. My goal as a future educator is to provide my students with the resources and the ability to live successful lives where they can work to change the injustices that so many marginalized people face. Teaching students to have the belief that they can make changes to society be very hard to do, but allowing them to create the rules of the classroom will help them gain the confidence to do so. When students are able to collaborate and make their own classroom rules, they feel as if they can be powerful people who can use their voice to make a change. When students feel like their voice is important, they will be more inclined to use them to make changes to society which is the goal of social
Howard Gardner, a professor at Harvard, introduced his theory of multiple intelligences in 1983. Multiple intelligence’s is a theory about the brain that says human beings are born with single intelligence that cannot be changed, and is measurable by a psychologist. Gardner believes that there are eight different intelligences in humans. The eight are verbal linguistic, visual spatial, bodily kinesthetic, mathematical logic, musical, intrapersonal, interpersonal, and naturalist. Understanding these intelligence’s will help us to design our classroom and curriculum in a way that will appeal to all of our students. We might also be able to curve discipline problems by reaching a student in a different way. One that will make more sense to them and more enjoyable. We can include all of the intelligences in lessons to accommodate all of the students’ different learning styles at once. By reaching each students intelligence we can assume that a student will perform better which, could mean students retaining more important information. A students learning style can also help lead them into a more appropriate career direction. As a teacher you can also learn your own personal learning style or intelligence to help improve the way you learn and teach.
Education is a vital tool for lifelong success but there are many areas of concern in the current system of public education. Education reform has been a constant occurrence since the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Every year, specialists develop