This essay will consider the strengths, limitations and implications in relation to Carol's teaching method. ... Piaget did not believe social interaction was the only method in learners constructing new knowledge. ... Piaget's developmental constructivist theory suggests that Carol should have modified her learning approach to actively facilitate a more constructed learning method for the students to build upon. ... Carol's use of group work is a strength in her teaching approach. ... She re-approached the topic of scale in map reading skills in HSIE (Human Society and its Envi...

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Chapter three in Kieran Egan's book, Imagination in Teaching and Learning, discusses the general characteristics of the imagination that occurs in our students between ages eight and fifteen. Egan states that there are two main obstacles that bar the implementation of imaginative development in our teaching methods and curriculum: the technical and the theoretical. ... By providing narrative context into your teaching methods you can enhance the power to stimulate and develop the imaginations of your students. ... By using a different perspective than the ones our students see everyd...

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Socrates had a very unique, perhaps somewhat annoying (to some) way of teaching and learning. ... This question and answer method is known as Socratic Dialectic, which is also known as the Socratic Method. ... It is easy to think of people who sometimes use a modern version of the Socratic Method. ... The method could go on forever. ... Socratic Method is to show us that even though we thought that we knew something, we really didn't. ...

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He has won many awards for teaching, including the 1968 Danforth Foundation Harbison Award and the 1978 Notre Dame Sheedy Award. ... If one can understand his teachings and actively use them in life, one will be able to deal with suffering in a much healthier way. ... Dunne explains compassion through the teachings of Gotama or more commonly known as Buddha. ... Gotama's idea of compassion is when one can see both sides of the wheel at the same time to compare the two lives by a method he calls passing over. ... The other type of suffering is described when Dunne uses the teachings of Jes...

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The method of teaching a child, where all the relevant knowledge are simply spoon fed to him may not appeal to any adult patient's learning, nor provide any effective results. ... As Knowles suggests "perhaps no aspect of andragogy has received so much attention and debate as the premise that adults are self-directed learners (Knowles et al, 1998, pg. 135).There are two conceptions of self-directed learning: First, self-directed learning is seen as self-teaching, whereby learners are capable of taking control of the mechanics and techniques of teaching themselves in a particular subject;...

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It is also that part of the total curriculum in which great flexibility in contents and methods can prevail. ... It takes no position about methods of initial reading instruction beyond insisting that content must receive as much emphasis as "skill." ... Chall has called "the great debate" about methods of reading instruction. ... To be fair, Hirsch does not explicitly advocate that memorization is a good method for learning. ... The Cultural Literacy movement is gaining ground today as the public demands some assurance that schools are really teaching the "right stuff" and that children are l...

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The good part is that Socrates never charges his student for listening to his teaching. All Socrates is interested in is teaching his student about his belief in reasoning about wisdom. ... On the other hand, Socrates taught about the new law before he was dead, but the students and friends were arguing with him and trying to persuade him to give up his teachings so that he will have a chance to survive. However, Socrates is not going to change his teaching method because he strongly believed in the Athenian society law is always right. ... For example, no one would blame him for teaching the ...

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He was teaching us to have good posture. ... The Walls Children were technically raised in a learning environment, whether it was Rose Mary teaching about art and the positives in each person, or Rex teaching about mathematics, physics, and astronomy. ... Rex and Rose Mary had very odd methods of raising their children. ...

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I am not sure how efficient self-directed learning would be in this situation as there are very specific instructions to the method of documentation that must be done. ... I would imagine that facilitation alone would not be an effective teaching method in this situation. ...

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