Category: Teaching and Learning
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Indirect Instruction
I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think. – Socrates Indirect instruction refers to a set of learner-centered methods to encourage student involvement in observing, investigating, drawing inferences from data, or forming hypotheses. A goal is to maximize students’ learning goals and encourage problem-solving and collaboration. Leaner-centered…
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Concept Attainment
Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. – Susan Sontag Concept Attainment – verbal or graphical examples are presented and students figure out the common attributes say between predator and prey or impressionistic and representational art. This…
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Direct Instruction
Direct instruction is the use of explicit teaching techniques like lecture, demonstration or presentation, usually employed to teach a specific skill or set of information. Direct instruction is a teacher-centered and passive learning model, in which the students receive instruction rather than actively participating in the construction of the learning…
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Adapting Content, Assessments and Resources
“You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water…
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Course Learning Objectives
What are we going to learn and how will we know we’ve learned it? Course learning objectives are the natural extension of a course goal, breaking down the broad, overarching purpose into specific, measurable outcomes that guide the learning process. While the course goal provides the “big picture” vision of…
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