How can a teacher effect learning.

I believe that a teacher can effect learning through their attitude toward the subject. This gives the students a glimpse of energy that could excite them to learn. This is not putting on a dog and pony show but just an excitement that the students can then take and put that energy into the learning for the day.

What is learning? Week 10/21

Learning is when a student is gaining new information. I believe that learning can best take place when the student believes the new information is important to what they want to do in life or at least can use it. Being a math teacher I get the question that " Where am I ever going to use this?" I agree that there are lots of "hoops to jump through" but I don't believe some students understand that some of the material that I teach is a pre cursor to something that they might use.

How can learning be effected by a teacher? 10/21

As I was explaining in what is learning I taught the concept of line of best fit and correlation. I think that if you show how the students can use the information in their lives they can relate to the subject and internalize the material. They are then able to take that information and use it to their interests and then make your subject more enjoyable and useful for the student.

Learning Week of 10/12

Learning is when a person gains insight to something new or has a deeper understanding of a subject. Deeper learning is usually a style of learning that correlates to something that is important to that person or that they already have an understanding. In my math class I always hear " When are we ever going to use this?" I introduced line of best fit and how that it can predict the future if there is a a strong correlation. I asked things that people might want to predict in the furture and gave an example of those situations with the line of best fit.