2.2 Key questions

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  • Which learning processes will allow the students to achieve the objectives?
  • How can I enable the students to fully take in (acquire), understand (process) and remember (störe) new Information?
  • Does the form of learning encourage the students to apply their newly acquired knowledge and skills to new tasks?
  • Does the planned learning setting or sequence primarily focus on the absorption, processing and storing of Information or on transfer tasks?
  • In planning this learning sequence, have I considered the important aspects (ideal learning conditions)?
  • Is the main objective of the learning process for the students to build up structures of meaning, to acquire skills or to develop attitudes, and have I provided for adequate forms of teaching and learning to achieve these respective objectives?
    • by action (by being active, producing or forming something, etc.)?
    • by thinking (by mental experimenting, by “creating” new insights)?
    • by Observation?
    • by being verbally taught (lecture, story-telling, etc.)?
    • by Instruction, assistance and co-operation?
    • by discussion and debate?
    • by producing a written documentation (report, learner’s diary, etc.)?
    • by a medium?
    • by specific events in real life and experience?
    • by experiment, trial and error?
2.1 Task
2 - Work file 1: Three stages in a learning process
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