"How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher?" Week One

I believe that learning is best effectuated by the teacher when the teacher gives good examples or situations that the student can relate to. When the student can relate to the information that is being presented they are able to apply the learning to their lives.
As a Mathematics Teacher I love when I start to teach exponential problems. Most students in high school are fascinated in making money and how to obtain it easily. I love to show my students how that it takes the same amount of time to double $1 to $2 as it takes to double $1,000,000 to $2,000,000. When I show them this mathematical problem they start to figure out how long it takes there money to triple and so forth. I explain that there are people who work for money and there are people who's money works for them.
I also like to show them in this chapter how the people in the TV show " CSI" can find out how long a person is dead for in a theorem called Newton's Law of Cooling. These problems excite the learner because they like the how they are being applied.

Learning Week 1

Learning? What is learning? I believe that learning is obtaining new information. Learning is obtained by pursuing things that a person does not know yet or has not mastered. Learning is a lifelong process that a person does up until they are no longer on this Earth. Learning could take place in a classroom, at the gym, at home, listening to the radio, or doing something you already know. Learning can be as shallow or as deep as long as the person is gaining insight or new knowledge.

BJ Roberts

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