Teacher For Learning

Teacher for Learning

Scenario Overview · How Learning Works Prior Knowledge Organize Knowledge Motivation Mastery Feedback and Practice Climate Metacognition Module Checklist

How Learning Works

This module is based primarily on the excellent book by Susan Ambrose and colleagues, How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching (2010). Jossey-Bass: San Francisco.

“Learning results from what the student does and thinks and only from what the student does and thinks. The teacher can advance learning only by influncing what the student does to learn.”

– Herbert A Simon

The seven principles are:

Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning.
How students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know.
Students’ motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn.
To develop mastery, students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned.
Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of students’ learning.
Students’ current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning.
To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning.