teaching versus presenting facilitating student learning

Teaching Versus Presenting

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Facilitating Student Learning

Presenting vs. Teaching

• Presenting:– Informed audience– Aim is to relay information

• Teaching:– Uninformed audience– Aim is to develop understanding


How do we learn?

• Everybody is different.

• How do we learn?– Sight– Smell– Sound– Taste– Touch


The VAK Model

• When teaching try to cater for each of the following:– Visual learners: learn by seeing– Auditory learners: learn by hearing– Kinaesthetic learners: learn by doing

Passive Interactive

Visual Auditory Kinaesthetic


Visual Learners

• Visual learners prefer:– Slides– Whiteboards– Diagrams– Copying– Colours– Demonstrations


Visual Learners

• Visual learners prefer:a

– Slides– Whiteboards– Diagrams– Copying– Colours– Demonstrations


Auditory Learners

• Auditory learners prefer:f

– Listening to explanations– Answering questions– Explaining concepts to other people


Kinaesthetic Learners

• Kinaesthetic learners prefer:f

– Classroom games– Working through problems themselves– Highlighting key points


Activity

• In groups, design a lesson on diminishing marginal product that would particularly appeal to one type of learner.


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