After reading through the posted materials this week it seems to me that there are many different principles of learning. When I think of principles of learning, I think of the First Peoples Principles of Learning (FPPL) as these are what we have reviewed countless times in the education program at UVic as well as in the local school districts.
The list of the learning principles on our class blog are:
(Beware that following these links the website has lots of pop up advertisements)
I would like to comment on the principle of freedom. From my experience in elementary school, when I was forced to do something (or in other words, didn’t have a choice in the matter), I did not enjoy the activity or absorb much information. When I have to do something that I don’t want to do I put a wall up. When I reflect on my most recent teaching experience teaching grade 1, I can tell you that they not only put up a mental wall when they don’t want to do something, but they also will verbally tell you they don’t want to do it. This was something I struggled to deal with in the moment as I didn’t know what to say back to them. Usually my response would be to give them the choice of completing the task at hand now or at a later time. This worked for the 6 year olds as they felt that they had some choice in the matter, but this may not work for all students.
References:
https://psychology.fandom.com/wiki/Principles_of_learning#Readiness
Response to Gracen’s blog post:
I really enjoy how Gracen starts her post with a personal story of how she is connecting her prior knowledge to the new knowledge she gained in this weeks readings and materials. Something I think she could add for next week are links or in text citations to the resources she used within her blog text instead of only at the end. I applaud Gracen for correctly embedding a video into her blog as this is something I have been struggling with this week. Good job Gracen!
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