Education in Arts GH / Fall 2024

  -------------------  I  Unit: Self-Assessment  Theme: Mid-Term Quiz   Introduction Every semester I assess your understanding of the content covered so far. Just right before the progress report's dead line, you test your own abilities to retain some of the themes we have learned and experienced together.   Today's quiz evaluates how efficient I have been in communicating ideas about Education in the Arts based on your responses to the questions below.   II Objectives Understand the nature of self-assessment Make sense of the various concepts explored in class Gather an awareness of assessment that is conducive to further learning Experience what is like to put into practice the content learned in class   III   Main Lesson   VOCABULARY 1. Teaching Philosophy Statement: Your teaching philosophy is a self-reflective statement of your beliefs about teaching and learning. ... It develops these ideas with specific, concrete exa...

  I Unit: Teaching Theme: Learning Theories   Introduction Learning theories describe how students receive, process, and retain knowledge during learning. Cognitive, emotional, and environmental influences, as well as prior experience, all play a part in teaching and learning. Understanding, developing our world view, acquiring or changing information, acknowledging and retaining skills are all part of Western learning tradition and theories.    II Learning Objectives    Understand how learning theories have changed from ancient times to the present Explain the differences between early philosophers and contemporary theorists who wrote about education Gain an awareness of the different learning theories Experience the articulation of your own learning theory III Main Lesson   1  LEARNING THEORIES Today we will introduce the different learning theories used in most educational systems around the world. Please, watch the video below and mov...

  I Unit: Teaching Theme: Learning Philosophies   Introduction Learning philosophies describe how thinkers from the past used to think about education. Studying these philosophies helps us to understand and develop our world view in terms of learning. Today, we will compare Eastern ways of framing learning and Western ways of understanding education.   II Learning Objectives    Understand how learning philosophies have changed from ancient times to the present Explain the differences between early philosophers and contemporary ones who wrote about education Gain an awareness of the different learning philosophies Experience the articulation of your own learning philosophy III Main Lesson  ------------------  1 Eastern Ideas about Education   a)   Siddhartha Gautama Buddha ( 623/563 - 544/483 BCE) The Buddha taught his disciples – a group known as the sangha – that the skills and knowledge most worth learning would be those things...