Outline:
'Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid' (attributed to Albert Einstein)
In this session participants will engage with difficult but simultaneously common questions and mindsets about how our practice, the context and modes of delivery, are influenced by how our students learn. When Socrates said the “unexamined life is not worth living”, he was creating what has come to be famously known as the Socratic principle of questioning. Socratic questioning is a mode of questioning that deeply examines the strength of a definition, justification or logic of a claim, theory, line of reasoning or stance. Lifelong learners seek to examine the claims and theories within their disciplines’ body of knowledge before accepting them as worthy of belief. When creating context and engage with modes of delivery we have to understand and be informed to fundamentally evidence our practice.
We will explore some important questions in this interactive session on how student learning influences the context and modes of delivery in your subject area.
By the end of this session, you will have engaged with and explored:
- Theoretical concepts, perspectives and methodologies in L&T
- Questioned what do we mean by learning
- Explored if student learning styles is still a relevant question
- Considered and discussed if different students learn in different ways
- Engaged with approaches to small or large groups teaching
- Considered the different theoretical perspectives of group learning and how we can use them
