ACTIVE LEARNING

How to accelerate students learning? Will our students understand what we’re trying to do??? How can we empower our students to be leaders later on; either in their personal lives or in their careers??? How can give them confidence to apply what they know? How do you deal with risks and uncertainties in your profession at the auditorium? One of the things that I would like my students to actually do to make them better learners to make them have the skills and competencies that will allow them to be successful citizens of the 21st century. How do students see other students working? How do we use that as models for both work ethic and engagement in learning?

The value of knowledge is determined by its use and by the opportunities that people have to have access to it. And that the learner makes the primary choices about what has value, what’s interesting, and what needs to be learned. The primary unit of learning is the person- the single person. That learning occurs as an individual activity. And it only happens when individuals are engaged in some kind of direct learning. collective means that learning is primarily a social activity. That is, people relate to each other around things that they have a common interest in. And it is that relationship, or that social interaction, that aids and abets learning.

Good, powerful, meaningful learning occurs when the interests of the learner is matched with the capacity of a tutor. Learning is almost the engine that allows us to continue to be dynamic.

Harvard University posits that the founder of Core Knowledge is E.D. Hirsch, Jr., who is also Professor Emeritus of Education and Humanities at the University of Virginia affirms that: An effective curriculum must be coupled with effective teaching. We believe teaching excellence requires a mastery of subject matter, as well as the ability to engage students, build language competency, use assessment to drive instruction, scaffold instruction to meet individual needs, and provide targeted feedback to students to further shape their learning.

Individuals are natural learners. Human beings advance, develop, and progress based on this built-in instinct to learn and know things that have value to them. Individuals are capable of making judgments about what knowledge is helpful to them and what’s useful to them.

When is learning successful? Students are successful learners when their learning is driven by their own questions, when they learn to formulate their own questions. So the ultimate judge for determining what is beautiful, what is true, what is good, is inside THEMSELVES. The question is not do I want to join a particular career track and be in a particular sector. The question is how do I want to enter the learning sector. What will be the opportunities for doing that? And what are the knowledge and skill sets that are required to lead in different parts of the learning sector?