Warsaw University, Poland.
2019.
Discuss analyse the learning
points/ concepts/ principles I found scientific in terms of my own future
teaching practice and professional development.
What we do mean by learning? What happens in
learning situations? What we need for learning? The definition of learning can
be simple and complicated at the same time, it can be simple if we define it as
a way of acquiring hidden or unknown knowledge.
Sometimes it can be
more complicated if you look at the details of this involves the activation of multiple elements to comprehend rules and
principles, understand relationships among various entities and solve problems.
It differs from simple learning in that it requires a high level of
mental effort. For example, learning vocabulary is a simple learning process
because the elements of the material learned do not interact with each other, the mental effort involved in simple learning is low.
However,
if the learning involves syntax, the elements of information that
must learn, it may be difficult to assimilate because it cannot be gained in
isolation. In this case, learning gets complicated which requires
high level of mental effort due to its high degree of element interactivity.
For me learning like planting flowers, a seed is planted in
my mind, which I nurture with water and sun in the faith that it will sprout
and grow. Alternatively,
peeling an onion, when I peel off a layer, which reveals the next layer to peel
off. Each time something tells me I am getting closer to the core of the
matter.
What
happens in a learning situation is the four- season climate. Sometimes it goes
smoothly like sunny day, other times stormy when learners can’t get a new
knowledge or when the teacher doesn't has the proper way to deliver the knowledge. If
we talk about learning, we must talk about teaching, because learning itself
never happen without teaching elements such as Teacher, materials, environments, teaching and
learning strategies as they play significant roles in developing learning
process.
Some
teachers taught the curriculum today, other teachers taught students today and
there is a big difference. I would taught syllabus and students today and
includes additional activities from internet that learners may need to
understand crucial concepts. I have learned that four language skills (reading,
writing, speaking, and listening) must be professionally delivered to the
students, and as a professional teacher I would be facilitate them through the
techniques I have learned in the university such as warming up, brain storm,
group working. Pair work, besides help learners to develop their logical
thinking when they learn six hat concepts.
If you teach young learners, your goal must be
increasing the level of their knowledge, make them read, read as much as they
could, build confidence and let them believe strongly that everything is
possible and they can learn anything they want, even if it was challenging. If
you do not do that, it may destroy their learning motivation.
John W. Gardner addressed that much education
today is monumentally ineffective. All too often, we are giving young people
cut flowers when we should teaching them to grow their own plants.
I will not give the students tools to cut flowers;
I would like to guide them finding the resources for their plants. As a good teacher I found myself the architect and builder of a nation and
generation.
my main asset of the human society, nation or a country for
disseminating humanity by process of teaching, in my opinion I would be
concentrating on the most useful qualities, and these are; technical know- how
or skillful, educative instead of mere career orientated, advanced knowledge,
changing methods or flexibility, historian, enjoyment of duty, relation instead
of instruction minded.
