How Students Learn
Workshop Description
This workshop provides an overview of how students learn and shares teaching techniques that will help your students achieve their goals. You will examine why material you’ve learned has stuck with you and the best ways to help your students retain the content you teach. Through activities and discussion, you will learn how to build on students’ prior knowledge, help students organize new knowledge, tap into students’ motivation to learn, and how to use practice and feedback to support student learning. Our focus will be on the practical application of student-centered instruction.
Learning Outcomes
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
describe the four key principles of learning: activating prior knowledge; organization of knowledge; motivation; and goals, practice and feedback.
identify key characteristics of student-centered learning.
apply the principles of student-centered learning to teaching activities.
