The Role of the Teacher in Purposeful Learning

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The Role of the Teacher inPurposeful Learning
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Clarifying Objectives

• Setting realistic goals
• Identification and clarification of associated
  objectives
• knowledge
• skills
• dispositions

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Motivating Students

• manipulating materials and activities to arouse
  interest
• engaging in goal setting procedure with the
  students
• manipulating rewards and competition
• providing knowledge of progress

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Supplying a Model

• persons as role models
• verbal descriptions
• audio visual models
• supplying a working model to eliminate needless
  trial and error

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Sequencing the Subject Matter

• logical organization
• psychological organization to facilitate learning

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Guiding Initial Trials

• establishment of correct responses
• avoidance of habitual errors
• aids pupil in understanding nature of
  satisfactory performance

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Managing Practice Effectively

• laboratory and clinical experiences
• not merely repeating same exercise
• essential to goal attainment in psycho-motor and
  cognitive areas
• a teacher can manipulate whole-part approaches

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Helping Students Apply Knowledge

• many specific examples
• skillful use of non-examples to evaluate transfer

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Providing for Individual Differences

• group students by ability
• improving materials
• sequencing the instruction

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Assessing Student Work

• help in reinforcing desirable learning
• provide encouragement
• provide yardstick to measure goals

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Providing for Recall

• systematic review
• elicit this review from students

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Evaluating Student Performance

• establish policy
• set criteria
• make criteria public
• assign grades