How do different learning theories influence teaching practice?
There is an educator in Chinese history, he called Yu Han. he is my favourite educator. I feel so agree with his point of view of education. He write a book called"Teacher's talk","Early spring"and so many books.
In these book, he has four main opinion.
1.Teacher should be good at finding students' special skill. A special skill will become a successful unless you found it."There is "Pak Lok" who has good judgements to spot "long distance running horse".However there are far less number of "Pak Lok"than that of "long distance running horse".(Yu Han ,N.D,Teacher's talk)"People always consider people with bright eyes assessor as "Pak Lok"and consider people who has special skills "long distance running horse".Yu told his students a story. The "long distance running horse" have the skill to running one thousand kilometers a day. But he never did that. "Pak Lok" found it's skill and practiced it. Then it become the famous"long distance running horse". Yu also commend the people who have the skills to become an official. Even some of them have the higher official title than him.
2. Students should study hard and can have the thoughts of themselves."School work succeeds with diligence and fails with idleness. career succeeds with good thought way and fails with getting adrift."(Yu Han, N.D,early spring) Yu said these words, he also did that. He is famous of disciplined himself to study hard, also to his students in the history.
3.Teaching should use a mount of interesting ways. "Teaching serious ever teach hard is to make students lost patience. teaching with travel and music will made them be intoxicated with the knowledge."(Yu Han, N.D, early spring)He always travel and teaching with his students. everyone is very like and respect him.
4.Respect the teacher and learning from many teachers."the student in the history all have a teacher, What is a teacher?A teacher is give the knowledge, teach the learning way and answer the questions. People is not born to know, how can someone do not feel confuse? If you feel confuse but not learn from a teacher. You will never understand that. "(Yu Han, N.D) Yu himself have many teachers. Sometime he also learn from his students. Even at that time, he is respect the student as a teacher.
All these thought build up his own teaching style. He also become the famous educator.
What is the importance of learning theories to teacher?
"Theory guides and shapes everything that teachers do in the classroom."(Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise,Shelley Dole,Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang and Karen Malone,2006)Theories are the basic things to build a self teaching. It helps teacher build up and develop the personal philosophy of teaching.Every teacher have their own teaching style. How the style developed? It must be build on by the learning theories the teacher thought most important to students. So theory is so important to a teacher.
REFERENCE
Yu Han. N.D.Teacher's talk
Yu Han. N.D. Early spring
Yu Han. N.D. Early spring
Yu Han. N.D
Gloria Latham, Mindy Blaise, Shelly Dole, Julie Faulkner, Josephine Lang and Karen Malone.2006 .learning to teach, New time,new practice
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