Activity 1 - What is learning?

The most powerful lesson I learnt during this activity:

As teachers, it is easy to be so filled with self-importance and belief in our own abilities to teach, that we underestimate the potential of our children – their potential to learn. Another profound lesson I learnt is that children are curious, eager to discover new things and possess an innate ability to learn.

 Thoughts from self-activities:

I particularly liked the way the questions are formulated. It gives the readers a chance to reflect on what we have read. This is helps us to express ourselves in ways to which we can relate. In this way it will aid our understanding of the information that was read. 

Additional comments:

I also liked how the author endeavoured to show the relationship between the teacher and the student by looking at teaching methodologies and the way children learn. Food for thought … if we had to rate the qualities that impact on the process of learning … would we change the order in which it was dealt with?