Essays on Learning Page 39

Do you think that we should behave like ostriches that when they see a threat they put their heads in the sand to avoid confrontation? In my opinion, eliminating competition from schools is a misguided attempt at ensuring that no one’s self-esteem gets trampled. But the ‘real self-esteem’ is built by achieving ‘small victories’- and…

Critically review your findings in relation to their impact at strategic and personal level. 4. Using your reflective learning journal and feedback from learners, evaluate your own approaches, strengths, and development needs in relation to inclusive practice, and plan opportunities to develop and improve your own skills. There is a need to address all the…

At the end of this essay, I intend to provide an exposition on the concepts of Pedagogy and Andragogy that can be easily understood by any layman. To achieve this, I will define both concepts and compare them to identify their similarities and differences. This will be done in the following paragraphs. The initial thing…

The teacher comments on the knowledge, skills and values embedded in the assessment standards. Learner performance is recorded as a mark along with an indication of Loss & Ass’s being addressed. These records act as an evidence of the learner achievement, which helps the coacher to do the judgment about the learner’s competence against the…

The ‘Gap’ between Theory and Practice Many articles have been published in regards to bridging the gap between theory and practice, which suggests there is a substantial gap between the transition from university to the workplace. This occurs in all industries, from information technology through to nursing, which has been described in the past as…

Previous research has found that recency and primacy in memory are affected by tasks given to persons before recalling groups of related or unrelated words given to them by the tester. Subjects are given four (4) separate tests. Each test is a slight deviation from the next and the test are administered and has the…

Is Standardized Test Like Intelligence Quotient Test? Standardized tests, which by definition gives all test-takers the same test under the same (or reasonably equal) conditions, are also perceived as being more fair than assessments that use different questions or different conditions for students according to their race, socioeconomic status, or other considerations. Standardized tests are…

Article Review – “How Motivation Affects Learning and Behaviour” by J. E. Ormrod This article reveals six effects of motivation towards Learning and Behaviour. To begin with, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations are introduced as two major motivations that drive a person in their actions. When I bumped onto this article, I thought all points in…

Robert Gagne and Leslie Briggs came up with different types of instructional prescriptions based on different situation needs. Gagne came up with a theory of how learning occurs while Briggs came up with many instructional development prescriptions and procedures. According to Gagne, learning can be organized in form of hierarchy such as complexity, response generation,…

                              Modifications plan. The learning experiences provided by the teacher are what determine the achievement of particular lesson objectives and the long term goals of a particular curriculum unit. As such therefore there is dire need of constant modifications of these learning experiences so as to make the learning process more meaningful and also to…