Education 03abc
Education 03abc
Province of Cebu
MUNICIPALITY OF SIBONGA
SIBONGA COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Sibonga.college.cebu@gmail.com
PRELIM COVERAGE
Objectives : At the end of this weekly module, you will have to:
I. ACTIVITIES
II. ABSTRACTION
PROGRAM GOALS
The BSED degree program aims to develop highly motivated and competent
teachers specializing in the content and pedagogy for secondary education.
THINK
The Learner-Centered Psychology Principles are categorized as follows:
Cognitive factors, refers to the mental processes the learners undergo as they
process information. The way learners think as they engage in mental tasks is the
concern of the metacognitive factors.
Teachers play a significant role in guiding their learners to become active, goal
directed, and self-regulating, and to assume personal responsibility for their
learning. The learning activities and opportunities provided by the teacher are
very important situations where learners can integrate knowledge and
concepts into their experiences. Whenever teachers plan their lessons and
topics, they always need to consider how they can brtog reality in the
classroom. Learners need to have a clear and concrete understanding of
knowledge and concepts presented so that they have to apply them. Learning
through experience is the most effective way of teaching. (Bereiter, 1989)
One of the most challenging roles of the teachers is to develop among their
learner’s higher order thinking skills (HOTS). It means that their learners
can do evaluation, synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of varied
concepts, information, and knowledge. As previously mentioned, learners
develop their thinking skills when they are provided with opportunities and
learning experience to process varied events and situations, specifically if
given real problems. This context means that aside from mastering
information, discovery, problem-solving, creation, and evaluation should
also be integrated into their learning experiences. Assessment tools in
schools should be authentic. Students can make inferences, sound
judgements, and relevant conclusions, and use their learned knowledge to
varied situations. HOTS are very much needed in this fast-changing world.
Learning does not only take place inside the classroom. Much of what
learners learn in the classroom with their teachers can only have meaning
one they see concretely in their everyday life. Examples given in the
classroom should be a reflection of their actual life experiences. Digital
tools and instructional practices must be carefully selected to facilitate a
motivating, stimulating, and encouraging learning environment geared
toward effective acquisition of knowledge, concepts, and skills among
learners.
How the learners push themselves to learn and how they value learning are
the concerns of the motivational factors. Meanwhile, the affective factors relate to
the attitude, feelings, and emotions that learners put into the learning task.
In lesson planning the motivation of the lesson sets the positive mindset of
the learners. No matter how new, challenging, and technical a topic is, if
the level of their motivation is high, they would always find the interest to
participate and get themselves engaged. Meanwhile, if there were no efforts
to motivate learners, then there would also be no engagement to learning.
Teachers and parents’ encouragements, praises, and rewards can boost the
learners’ confidence. They can also establish positive emotional states and
good habits of thinking in individuals. Learners will always feel that
mistakes and errors are normal parts of learning. Teachers should also use
learning materials and strategies that would eradicate learners’ anxiety,
panic, and even insecurities.
As teachers and mentors, the most important way to motivate the students
to learn is to present the value of that knowledge or concept to their life.
Learning is not only about getting good grades or complying with
requirements, but it is more of knowing why they need to learn such and to
what specific instances in their lives that they would be able to use them.
When what is being taught to the students is presented creatively, it
stimulates their HOTS, enhances their curiosity, and heightens their
interest to learn more about it. Teaching strategies that follow personal
choice, control, collaboration, and creation for learners contribute to a
more heightened intrinsic for learning.
Teachers can praise works that have been done well. They can also
acknowledge every little achievement of a person. Teacher can use the
student’s errors or mistakes as opportunities for mentoring. All these raise
a person’s motivation to learn. Positive emotions established in the
classroom as well as with others make learning interesting for everybody in
general. The learning environment can also foster positive emotions when
there is no competition between and among learners, and numeric grades
are just secondary consideration as pieces of evidence of learning.
Individual Differences:
Perhaps the first task of every teacher in a class should be to know and study
individual differences among the learners. Individual differences in bodily
appearance and physique, habits and skills, interests and temperaments,
abilities and attainments have already been recognized.
1. Physical differences:
2. Differences in intelligence:
3. Differences in attitudes:
It has been found through achievement tests that individuals differ in their
achievement abilities. These differences are very much visible in reading, writing
and in learning mathematics.
These differences in achievement are even visible among the children who are at
the same level of intelligence. These differences are on account of the differences
in the various factors of intelligence and the differences in the various
experiences, interests and educational background.
There are differences in motor ability. These differences are visible at different
ages. Some people can perform mechanical tasks easily, while others, even
though they are at the same level, feel much difficulty in performing these tasks.
McNemar and Terman discovered the following differences between men and
women, on the basis of some studies:
(i) Women have greater memory skills while men have greater motor ability.
(ii) Handwriting of women is superior while men excel in mathematics and logic.
(iii) Women show greater skill in making sensory distinctions of taste, touch and
smell etc., while men show greater reaction and conscious of size- weight illusion.
(iv) Women are superior to men in languages, while men are superior in physics
and chemistry.
(v) Women are better than men at mirror drawing. Faults of speech etc. in men
were found to be three times the size of such faults in women.
(vi) Women are more susceptible to suggestions while there are three times as
many colour blind men as there are women.
(vii) Young girls take interest in stories of love, fairy tales, stories of the school
and home and day-dreaming and show various levels in their play. On the other
hand boys take interest in stories of bravery, science, war, scouting, stories of
games and sports, stories and games of occupation and skill.
7. Racial differences:
On the basis of these average differences between the races, the mental age of a
particular individual cannot be calculated since this difference is based on
environment.
(a) Theoretical, (b) Economic, (c) Aesthetic, (d) Social, (e) Political, and (f)
Religious.
Stable minded:
With a stable mind comes a healthy and balanced mind, more fulfilling
relationships, the ability to be present in activities, a realistic perspective, better
self-efficacy and self-esteem, and therefore a healthier and more balanced life.
If people are unstable, their emotions and behaviour keep changing because their
minds are disturbed or upset. He was emotionally unstable.
Jordon thinks of personalities into:
Thorndike has classified people into four categories on the basis of thinking:
(a) Abstract thinkers, (b) Ideational thinkers, (c) Object thinkers, and
(d) Thinkers in whom sensory experience is predominant.
An abstract thinker looks at the big picture to see how everything fits together—
what's the underlying message, the patterns and structures of the task at hand
and the alternatives to make everything work together? The definition of an
abstract thinker highlights these aspects.
Object-visual thinkers: see the world in pictures, and gravitate towards careers
as designers, artists, architects, mechanical engineers, etc.
Terman has classified people into nine classes according to their level of
intelligence:
(a) Genius, (b) Near genius, (c) Very superior, (d) Superior, (e) Average,
It is an admitted fact that some people are honest, others are dishonest, some are
aggressive, others are humble, some are social, others like to be alone, some are
critical and others are sympathetic. Thus, we see that the differences in
personality are dependent on personality traits. Teacher should keep in mind
these differences while imparting education to the pupils.
Causes of Individual Differences:
1. Heredity:
One of the most significant and chief causes of individual differences is heredity.
Individuals inherit various physical traits like face with its features, colour of eyes
and hair, type of skin, shape of skull and size of hands, colour blindness,
baldness, stub-finger and tendency to certain diseases like cancer and
tuberculosis, mental traits like intelligence, abstract thinking, aptitudes and
prejudices. Now it is an admitted fact that heredity differences result in the
quantity and rate of physical as well as mental development being different and
different individuals.
2. Environment:
4. Sex differences:
Development of boys and girls exhibits differences due to difference in sex. The
physical development of the girl takes place a year or two earlier than the boys.
Between the age of 11 and 14, girls are taller and heavier than the boys. After 15,
boys start winning the race.
Girls are kind, affectionate, sympathetic and tender while the boys are brave,
hard, choleric, efficient and competent.
Some people are by temperament active and quick, while others are passive and
slow, some humorous and others short tempered. Emotional stability of the
individual is differently affected by physical, mental and environmental factors.
Differences in emotional stability cause individual differences.
7. Other Causes:
Individual differences are caused by economic condition of the parents and the
education of the children. It is not possible for the children of two economic
classes to have a similarity and equality.
Generally, there are 50 or more than 50 students in a class. In such a large class,
it is not possible for the teacher to pay individual attention to the students. The
size of the class should be small. It should be divided into various units so that
after class-room work their various difficulties may be found out.
Now there are separate classes for the students, who have different intelligence.
While bringing about this classification, the teacher should keep in mind the
difference in age, interests, emotional and social qualities.
3. Home task:
The teacher should assign home task to the students while keeping in view the
individual differences.
4. Factor of sex:
Boys and girls are to play different roles in society. Hence the factor of sex should
be kept in mind.
5. Curriculum:
The curriculum should be modified to suit the needs of all types of children. A
large number of subjects should be included in the curriculum so that education
can be provided to each child according to his interests, needs and abilities.
Curriculum should not be rigid but it should be flexible.
If we lay down the same curriculum for all the students, the brilliant students
will not be able to have full mental diet, and the backward students and the
students of lower I.Q. will lag far behind in the class, and they may start playing
truancy from the school.
5. Methods of Teaching:
6. Educational Guidance:
7. Vocational Guidance:
While keeping in view the individual differences the teacher can guide the
students in the vocation that they should adopt.
8. Individual Training:
Many plans and techniques for individualizing instructions have been advocated.
This plan was introduced by Miss Helen Parkhurst at Dalton. According to this
plan, the school is regarded as a ‘children house.’ The principles underlying the
plan are freedom, co-operation and allocation of time. The pupils are free to
continue without interruption the work in which they are absorbed, unhindered
by time tables.
They are not taught in classrooms. They are given subjects that suit their
interests. The advantage of this plan is that each pupil is allowed to proceed at
his own rate and in accordance with this individual ability. Thus, the instructions
are completely individualized.
This Plan was devised by Professor H.Q. Morrison of the University of Chicago.
This plan is based on directed guidance and stresses unit assignment. To
establish learning unit is an important task in the Morrison plan. The plan is
based on individual needs and interests.
This plan was instituted by C.W. Washburne in the school of Winnetka, Illinois.
This plan is based on the principle that the pupils should be allowed to follow his
own rate of learning in each of the subjects of his curriculum. Before instituting
this plan, it is observed through an examination that how much an individual
already knows. On the basis of it, specific learning unit is planned for him.
In this plan, the subjects of study are determined like the Dalton method; the
pupil’s progress is measured through tests like the Winnetka method. Thus this
plan is a synthesis of Dalton and Winnetka methods.
This method was suggested by Kilpatrick. In this method each member of the
group can work in terms of his interest and ability. Hence this method is also in
the direction of individualization of instructions.
EXPERIENCE
Learners acquire knowledge and skills from the experiences that they
actively engage in. This scenario demands the teachers to be in an active role as
well to effect the intended positive changes to the learners. Initially, teachers’
awareness of students’ background or characteristic is vital input in instructional
design. Common experiences shared by teachers in seminars and training reveal
the varied methodologies and strategies they have in their action researcher to be
effective. Cognition is triggered by the varied types of motivation used by teachers
and the strategies they use to build a more positive affect among the learners.
Likewise, prior knowledge has been found useful in the learners’ metacognitive
thinking. The stock knowledge and skills have developed greater confidence for
the learners to hurdle the task – in the planning of the strategies to solve a task,
in their monitoring of their solving processes, and in evaluating their output.
Based on common experience by teacher, learners achieve more if they effort in
the tasks given to them.
I.Read and analyze the statement. If true, write YES before the item; if false, write
NO.
I. Assessment Task:
CATEGORY 10 6 5 4
Quality of Information Information Information Information
Information clearly relates clearly relates clearly relates has little or
to the main to the topic. It to the main nothing to do
topic. It provides 1-2 topic. No with the main
includes supporting details and/or topic.
several details and/or examples are
supporting examples. given.
details and/or
examples.
Mechanics No Almost no A few Many
grammatical, grammatical, grammatical grammatical
spelling, or spelling or spelling and spelling and
punctuation punctuation punctuation punctuation
errors. errors. errors. errors.
Organization The Information is The The
information is organized with information is information
very organized well- organized, appears to be
with well- constructed but the organized.
constructed paragraphs. paragraphs
paragraphs are not well-
and constructed.
subheadings.
II. Complete the graphic organizer by filling in with novel classroom practices
that address the psychological principles of learner-centered learning.
Classroom
Practice
Cognitive
Classroom and Classroom
Practice Metacognitive Practice
Factors
Classroom
Practice
V. APPLICATION
1. Go to Google Classroom:
https://meet.google.com/eaj-pehm-pvb?hs=122&authuser=0 (3Math)
https://meet.google.com/bgc-zudw-zss?authuser=0&hs=122 (3Eng A)
https://meet.google.com/myn-hepi-iub?authuser=0&hs=122 (3Eng B)
https://meet.google.com/szk-nrhf-xgi?authuser=0&hs=122 (3Sciene)
2. From the Home Page, go to “Classwork” and click “Facilitating Learner-Centered
Teaching”.
3. Read the instructions found on “Facilitating Learner-Centered Teaching”.” and
answer them directly.
“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but whoever hates correction is stupid.
Proverbs 12:1
VI. REFERENCE
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