The Role of the Teacher in Purposeful Learning

1. The Role of the Teacher inPurposeful Learning

2. Clarifying Objectives • Setting realistic goals • Identification and clarification of associated objectives: • knowledge • skills • dispositions

3. 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

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

5. Sequencing the Subject Matter • logical organization • psychological organization to facilitate learning

6. Guiding Initial Trials • establishment of correct responses • avoidance of habitual errors • aids pupil in understanding nature of satisfactory performance

7. 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

8. Helping Students Apply Knowledge • many specific examples • skillful use of non-examples to evaluate transfer

9. Providing for Individual Differences • group students by ability • improving materials • sequencing the instruction

10. Assessing Student Work • help in reinforcing desirable learning • provide encouragement • provide yardstick to measure goals

11. Providing for Recall • systematic review • elicit this review from students

12. Evaluating Student Performance • establish policy • set criteria • make criteria public • assign grades