We want our students to learn. We plan our lessons around learning objectives and we have learning goals for every child that walks into our classrooms. Below you will find samples of work that I have done that considers specifically the task of learning.
John Hattie's book Visible Learning clearly depicts various areas that influence learning including, the child, the teacher, the home among others. Here is a brief presentation delineating those influences that I have found to be quite useful in framing what good teaching looks like.
Learning can take place in many different places, not just formally in schools. Let's take grocery shopping, for example. Math, Science, English, Social Studies, and Health can all be a part of grocery shopping. This area is particularly interesting for my own teaching as I think through ways to bring the Spanish language to the real world for my students.
There are times that our learning is focused on one topic (Linguistic aspects of the Chinese language) and we find ourselves learning about other topics almost coincidentally (Chinese history). Here are my thoughts on coincidental learning through the Deborah Fallow's book Dreaming in Chinese.
I developed my own personal learning theory and applied it to a unit of Spanish IV. You can read about it here.
I focused some of my work on adult learners and applied it specifically to a unique set of learners- teachers. I want to share with you two documents that are related though created in different courses. Both documents focus on the faculty at my previous school. The first discusses the faculty as learners and the second is a learning proposal for that same faculty.