Independent Study
Independent studies a working document (Brett Wilkin 2012)
Theory of Independent Studies.
Independent studies can be operated at many different levels from Prathom 3 or 4 up to University level. The strength of these studies is in their ability to extend students and make them think.
Traditional classrooms didactic teaching style is known to dampen a student’s desire to learn where as activities such as Independent Studies have been shown to enhance a student’s desire to learn and the students become more involved with their own education at a thinking level.
Making Links In The Brain.
Making links in the brain.
Traditional teaching was typically taught as topic based and subject based and amazingly much teaching is still done this way. This author is not advocating that the topic or subject is not important, it is, but what is more important is what can be done with the topic or subject and how it relates to the world.
Creative Thinking and Design
There are many ways to approach creative thinking including the use of De Bono's hats. All teachers should find a method that suits them and extends their students. The two methods below are simple and easy to implement in the classroom and have been used extensively over the last 20 years. A google search will find more.
To start with, the ubiquitous mind-map is always a favourite. Here is an animation used to assist students in learning how to create in depth mind-maps. That is with more than one level with many branches. The students have to create mind-maps that are about 4 - 5 levels for a small project and about 15 or more for extensive projects.
The Obsolete Teacher
The obsolete teacher
For a teacher to become obsolete in the classroom is an idealistic goal to strive for. If achieved this means the students have the ability to constructively criticise and assess their own work. Constructively means they can analyse and build on what they have learnt as opposed to destructively where very little learning takes place. When the student can constructively criticise their own work they can also determine what extra research or effort needs to be done to bring their work to a fruition they can be proud of.
Language Acquisitions, Theories, Perspectives, Culture.
A TEASOL Assignment by Prae Kamonchanok.
With the global expanding of English language as a world medium communication, a large number of countries where English is not their first or official language are trying to add this global language to the mainstream educational curriculum.
Read more: Language Acquisitions, Theories, Perspectives, Culture.
A Classroom Perspective of Cognitive Development.
How do we learn in the Classroom? Piaget and Dynamic Systems.
While watching a class presentation, with the teacher droning on, the feeling of wanting to put the foot on the accelerator was very strong. The presentation was in great detail and covered every possible contingency the student may come across when creating a Blog with Google Blogger. The presentation was
Read more: A Classroom Perspective of Cognitive Development.
Student Centred Classrooms.
จากมุมมองอื่นเราสามารถพิจารณาการเรียนการสอนภูมิประเทศของออสเตรเลียโดยเนื้อหาความรู้การเรียนการสอนเราจะได้รับการตอบสนองอัตโนมัติเกี่ยวกับระบบแม่น้ำ
The style of teaching in a classroom is very important to the concept of education. The age old argument of, are we training or are we educating, takes place in many staff rooms. Are we trying to achieve a response as a result teaching (for example: road safety) or to understand what it (road safety) is?
From another perspective, we can consider teaching Australian Geography by teaching knowledge content we can get an automatic response about the river systems.
Learning To Learn (Styles).
-Th- เรียนอย่างไรให้มีประสิทธิภาพจากการเรียนรู้ถึงการเรียนHow to learn more effectively LEARNING TO LEARN.
-Th- ไม่น่าแปลกใจเลยที่แต่ละคนมีวิธีการเรียนรู้ที่แตกต่างกันออกไป บางคนเรียนรู้จากการอภิปรายแลกเปลี่ยนความเห็นกันเป็นกลุ่ม หรือด้วยการกระโจนเข้าไปในโครงการทันที สำหรับคนอื่นๆ อาจจะเลือกเรียนรู้ตามลำพังตนเองหรือต้องการเวลาคิดไตร่ตรองก่อนเริ่มทำสิ่งใหม่ๆ คุณจะแน่ใจได้อย่างไรว่าเมื่อใดก็ตามที่คุณเรียนบางสิ่งบางอย่าง หรือนำเสนอข้อมูล หรือดำเนินการผึกอบรม ได้อย่างมีประสิทธิผลสูงสุดแล้วหรือ? เรามีเคล็ดลับดังนี้ It's no surprise that as individuals, we have different learning and working styles. Some people learn better by discussing things in groups, or by jumping into a project straightaway. Others prefer to work alone or have time to think things through before starting something new.
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