Extend NZ/NZEXT101/Teacher for Learning

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Teachers open the door but you must enter by yourself.

—Author unknown


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How Learning Works
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 influencing what the student does to learn.

—Herbert A Simon


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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.

The seven principles are:

  • Students’ prior knowledge can help or hinder learning
  • How students organise 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, practise 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