N.C. Smith
Nina's Notes
Choosing How to Teach
Choosing How to Teach – Learning Happens
Description: Meaningful learning and effective teaching with a Finnish twist
Understanding learning theories is crucially important for anyone who wants to teach. Without purposefully designing the learning experience by choosing the learning theory and instructional strategy for the lesson, there is a great change that we are just teaching the same way we were taught – and that might not help our students to learn! It might make them to use surface learning strategies to just pass, not to learn!
Are you (and/or your students) engaging in deep learning or surface learning?
There is a big difference between instructor/instruction centered vs. learner-centered education. When learning is perceived to be a product (product, grade, task, test score, etc.) created according the instruction, it makes great sense to group students by their academic ability. That’s what we would do in other industries, right? However, learning is so much more than just a product of instruction!
N.C. Smith
Nina's Notes
Choosing How to Teach
Choosing How to Teach – Learning Happens