{"id":100,"date":"2013-08-19T16:01:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T23:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/?page_id=100"},"modified":"2015-09-09T10:32:55","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T17:32:55","slug":"principles-of-teaching-and-learning","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/principles-of-teaching-and-learning\/","title":{"rendered":"Principles of Teaching and Learning"},"content":{"rendered":"<ol>\n<li>When the subject matter to be learned possesses meaning, organization and structure that is clear to students, learning proceeds more rapidly and is retained longer.<\/li>\n<li>Readiness is a prerequisite for learning.\u00a0 Subject matter and learning experiences must be provided that begin where the learner is.<\/li>\n<li>Students must be motivated to learn.\u00a0 Learning activities should be provided that take into account the wants, needs, interest and aspirations of students.<\/li>\n<li>Students are motivated through their involvement in setting goals and planning learning activities.<\/li>\n<li>Success is a strong motivating force.<\/li>\n<li>Students are motivated when they attempt tasks that fall in a range of challenge such that success is perceived to be possible but not certain.<\/li>\n<li>When students have knowledge of their learning progress, performance will be superior to what it would have been without such knowledge.<\/li>\n<li>Behaviors that are reinforced (rewarded) are more likely to be learned.<\/li>\n<li>To be most effective, reward (reinforcement) must follow as immediately as possible the desired behavior and be clearly connected with that behavior by the student.<\/li>\n<li>Directed learning is more effective than undirected learning.<\/li>\n<li>To maximize learning, students should \u201cinquire into\u201d rather than be \u201cinstructed in\u201d the subject matter.\u00a0 Problem-oriented approaches to teaching improve learning.<\/li>\n<li>Students learn what they practice.<\/li>\n<li>Supervised practice that is more effective occurs from functional educational experience.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<table style=\"height: 113px\" width=\"935\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"479\">Summarized from:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Newcomb, L. H., McCracken, J. D., &amp; Warmbrod, J. R. (1993). <u>Methods of\u00a0<\/u><u>Teaching Agriculture<\/u><\/p>\n<p>(Chapter\u00a02). Danville, IL: Interstate Printers and\u00a0Publishers, Inc.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the subject matter to be learned possesses meaning, organization and structure that is clear to students, learning proceeds more rapidly and is retained longer. Readiness is a prerequisite for learning.\u00a0 Subject matter and learning experiences must be provided that begin where the learner is. Students must be motivated to learn.\u00a0 Learning activities should be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/principles-of-teaching-and-learning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Principles of Teaching and Learning<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4770,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-100","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4770"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":239,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/100\/revisions\/239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/agriculturehandbook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}