How to teach students more effectively using teaching learning principles?

Question

How to teach students more effectively using teaching learning principles?

Answer 1

Go to http://www.instituteforlearning.org/ and there are 8 principles of learning that every effective teacher needs to utilize in the classroom so that students know what they are learning, why they are learning it, how it will help them in the future, and how they know their work is good.

Answer 2

Great Question. The problem is no 2 kids learn the same way. Most teachers teach to the MAJORITY, meaning those who learn the same way.

The one thing you can do is teach the majority and have them on a assignment while taking the other(s) and maybe having to break it down more.

Some people do great with study guides. Some will get lost. YOu have to identify those that have trouble and work with them. TOO MANY teachers let those that don't get it drift and they get lost in the system. They fail not because they can't learn, but because their learning Style does not fit the teacher.

In a perfect world, you put kids in with teachers that teach the way they learn. Sadly, we group and gather and herd and the cattle just keep on a movin along.

Answer 3

i think u can more effective if u do it with examples

Answer 4

Unfortunately, most school "policies" forego the common sense of teaching/learning for the need to comply with funding stats.

Kids retain focus and interest moreso when the subject and it's presentation contain real useable information...something that will add stealth to their life process during the times that they will need it.  The majority of children do not see 5 yrs. down the road...they see now, with a possibility of tomorrow.

If subjects and their matters were presented with comparison to their everyday living and ease of such in their futures, they would see the 'sense' of it...this makes it need-to-know info, not just a rote bunch of non-sense to appease the teacher's need to keep an educational board happy...See???

There's a million books on how-to-do just about anything, including teaching/learning techniques--alot by folks who never had kids, deal with kids, or even plan to...go figure!!!  The thing that most eliminate in process is simple Come On! Sense, which children grasp with ease before becoming "adult-erated".

Good Journey!!!

Answer 5

I think you need to have dedication to teach not any principles

Answer 6

Terrific question -and kudos to you for wanting to explore the possibilities for improving the classroom exchange between teachers and students.

You have received many good responses, however, I'd like to provide you with some web sites that may offer you a different take on "learning theory" and "learning principles" that is the result of recent discoveries in the scientific and medical fields.

There has been tremendous growth and discovery in brain-based research in the past ten years, and many scholars and researchers have been assessing and analyzing the findings to find out more about how humans learn best. Within that framework of learning is also the discipline of "effective instruction."

The discoveries have been nothing short of phenomenal, fascinating, and frequently requiring the previous thinking and material on learning to be turned upside-down.

As such, I strongly recommend taking a look at the contemporary literature as it relates to learning and, specifically, the latest findings from our brain-based research universities and institutes. For your convenience, I've included a few links to web sites below.

Included in the web sites is one from "New Horizons for Learning" that is a compilation of authors and articles from 1994-2002 on brain-based learning and research.

Have fun ... this is fascinating stuff!!