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Inquiry

How Students Learn*National Research Council

The Three Fundamental Principles Of Learning With Understanding

1. Student’s prior understandings must be engaged.

How Students Learn *National Research Council

The Three Fundamental Principles Of Learning With Understanding

2. Student’s must (a) have a deep foundation of factual knowledge (b) understand facts and ideas in the context of a conceptual framework(c) organize knowledge in ways that facilitate retrieval and application

How Students Learn *National Research Council

The Three Fundamental Principles Of Learning With Understanding

3. Student’s must continually self-monitor their own learning.

Metacognitive Monitoring

Metacognitive Monitoring

Not “what did you learn in school today?”

“What kind of questions did you ask today?”

How Students Learn Learner Centered– starts with

what students think and know Knowledge Centered– what is

taught, why it’s taught, what mastery looks like

Assessment Centered- many opportunities to make student’s thinking & learning visible – guides instruction

Community Centered- culture of respect, questioning & risk taking

Teaching Strategies

“To a man with a hammer, every problem looks like a nail”

Lec∙ture – an exposition of a given subject delivered before an audience or class

Lecture – a process whereby information is transferred from the notes of a speaker to the notes of the listeners without having gone through the minds of either.

Lectures are not bad. Bad lectures are bad.

Teaching Strategies

It’s not so much about how you are going to present the content but rather what type of opportunities can you provide students to understand the content.

Teaching Strategies

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