GED 2002: Making New Connections


	An Inservice Project Using The Florida GED Teachers' Handbook

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The Fourth Connection:
Effective Teaching Strategies
page 2

Finished with the pre test? Great! Let's move on.

Learning and the Human Brain

Are you curious about how your students learn? As people move through life, new information and skills are linked to the rest of the learner's past experiences, prior knowledge and current experiences. Prepare yourself for producing your own learning experience by reviewing how learning occurs. Eric Jensen (1995) illustrates the basic profile of how we learn as:

Personal History
(beliefs, experience, values, knowledge)

Present Circumstances
(environment, feelings, people, context, goals, moods)

Processing
(learning preferences - left or right hemisphere, limbic, abstract or concrete)

Meaning
(to get it, we connect experience and form conclusions AND we detect or create patterns that give us a feeling)

Response
(7 intelligences-
verbal-linguistic, spatial, bodily kinesthetic, musical-rhythmic, intrapersonal, mathematical-logical, interpersonal)

Reference: Jensen, Eric, (1995) Super Teaching, Turning Point Publishing, Del Mar, CA.

Volumes have been written on the theory of learning and the different learning styles. This component will not explore all of the different learning styles and theories but it will incorporate some of the various styles into the strategies that are shared. Let's begin. It’s time for “Lights, Camera, Action!”

This program was developed by Dr. Lucy M. Guglielmino, Florida Atlantic University, through an Adult Education State Leadership Grant from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education. Content Developed by Susan Pittman and Bonnie Vondracek. Web development by Dr. Debra L. Hargrove. Videography by Steve Foley, Foley Video Productions.

Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this web-based training component, it is not an official publication of the Florida Department of Education.