Foundations of Teaching and Learning
An essay informed by theory and personal values and beliefs focussing on creating a stimulating and caring classroom or early learning environment where optimal learning can take place.
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Resources
Introduction
A paragraph or paragraphs that shows how you will answer the question
This is very often the last thing you will write.
Body
These paragraphs address each part of the question.
Each paragraph should address one main idea.
Lectures
Readings
Theory
What theory or theories will you use.
Here you need to consistently consider what you have been taught over the past seven weeks.
You do not need to write about all of it.
Look over the PowerPoints you were given and ask yourself
“What most applies to my personal values and beliefs? and “What would create a stimulating and caring classroom environment.
Personal values and beliefs
What are your personal values and beliefs and how to they relate to early childhood education?
Stimulating environment
What pedagogies would use to ensure that the children are engaged interested and learning in a way that is appropriate to their development?
Caring environment
What do you need to consider to ensure that the children are cared for emotionally and physically? How could you ensure they are safe and secure.
Sample Solution
It would be convenient if we could simply hand someone new skills and knowledge, or perhaps magically pump wisdom into their head. We obviously cannot. Learning, on the other hand, is an active process carried out by the learner. The educator’s job is to increase the chances of learning taking place. This viewpoint reveals a large body of learning science literature that has studied human learning for decades and produced a variety of valuable findings. One common set of seven learning principles (e.g., Ambrose, et al., 2010) can be used to organize evidence-based suggestions and approaches to assist you put what learning science tells us works best to create learning into practice.
