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Lesson 1 Relationship Between Learning and Instruction

The document discusses the relationship between learning and instruction. It provides historical context and defines key terms like learning, psychology, educational psychology, and characteristics of good teaching. It explores how research can improve student achievement and questions what makes a teacher effective.

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Lesson 1 Relationship Between Learning and Instruction

The document discusses the relationship between learning and instruction. It provides historical context and defines key terms like learning, psychology, educational psychology, and characteristics of good teaching. It explores how research can improve student achievement and questions what makes a teacher effective.

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Topic 1 : Relationship between Learning

and Instruction

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Historical Perspective

Theories and research findings help to advance the field but their ultimate contribution
is their impact of teaching that improves learning!

Research improves students’ achievement – The students’ achievement could be


improved if the modern teacher keep themselves updated on the issue and trends about
the modern methods and strategies in teaching.

Improves
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Psychology

The scientific of mind and behavior (or behavior and mental process)
especially as it relates to individual human beings.

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Psychology of Learning / Educational Psychology

Is the scientific discipline that addresses the questions:

“Why do some children learn more than others?”

“What can be done to improve that learning?”

“What are the factors that help the learning process?”

‘How do we measure the amount of learning?”

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Learning

Learning is the process of acquiring new, or modifying existing, knowledge, behaviors,


skills, values, or preferences. The ability to learn is possessed by humans, animals, and
some machines.

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What is good teaching?

Good teachers are committed to their students. They must deal with a wide range of
student abilities and challenges:

• Different languages,
• Different home situations,
• Different abilities and disabilities

They must adapt instructions and assessments to students’ needs. The whole time that
these experts are navigating through the academic material, they also taking care of
emotional needs of their students, propping up sagging self-esteem and encouraging
responsibility.

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What are the characteristics of good teaching?

One set of characteristics of good teaching, extracted from research studies and
summarised from the individual lecturer's point of view (Ramsden, 2003) includes:

• A desire to share your love of the subject with students


• An ability to make the material being taught stimulating and interesting
• A facility for engaging with students at their level of understanding
• A capacity to explain the material plainly
• A commitment to making it absolutely clear what has to be understood at what level and why
• Showing concern and respect for students
• A commitment to encouraging independence
• An ability to improvise and adapt to new demands
• Using teaching methods and academic tasks that require students to learn actively, responsibly and co-operatively
• Using valid assessment methods
• A focus on key concepts, and students misunderstandings of them, rather than covering the ground
• Giving the highest quality feedback on student work
• A desire to learn from students and other sources about the effects of teaching and how it can be improved.

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Question to ponder

• WHAT MAKES A TEACHER EFFECTIVE? DESCRIBE


THE MOST EFFECTIVE TEACHER YOU EVER HAD.?

• DO TEACHER MAKE A DIFFERENCE?

• TEACHERS AS RESEARCHERS

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THANK YOU

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