ELM-500 Course: Reflection of How People Learn Report, Semester 1

This report, prepared for ELM-500, delves into the multifaceted aspects of student learning. It begins by outlining key principles associated with the development and acquisition of knowledge, emphasizing the importance of opportunities for learning, action and reflection, connection and challenge, a supportive atmosphere, and motivation. The report then explores strategies for fostering collaboration within the classroom, including techniques for asking questions, planning activities that encourage critical thinking, managing conflicts, and modeling collaborative behavior. Furthermore, it examines methods for encouraging students to monitor their work and engage in self-reflection, such as soliciting feedback, reducing teacher talk, and guiding goal setting. The report also discusses preferred teaching styles, including discussion, lecture, role-playing, and brainstorming, and explains how teaching practices can be aligned with various learning theories to support diverse student preferences. Finally, it underscores the importance of teachers assisting diverse learners to foster global citizenship and an understanding of different social groups and cultures.

Running head: REFLECTION OF HOW PEOPLE LEARN
Reflection of How People Learn

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Table of Contents
Detailed descriptions of how students learn, including principles related to development and
acquisition of knowledge.................................................................................................................3
Strategies to teach collaboration in the classroom environment.....................................................3
Strategies for encouraging students to monitor their work and engage in self-reflection...............3
A description of the type of teaching you prefer to demonstrate in the classroom environment....3
How your teaching practices will support the learning preferences of students based on
researched learning theories............................................................................................................3
The importance for a teacher to assist diverse students’ learning...................................................3
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Detailed descriptions of how students learn, including principles related to development
and acquisition of knowledge.
From topic material, I have learned that there are principles associated with development and
acquisition of understanding and this helps the student to learn. These principles are an
opportunity to learn, action and reflection, connection and challenge, supportive atmosphere, and
motivation and purposes (Štefaniková, & Prokop, 2015).
Strategies to teach collaboration in the classroom environment
I have also increased my experience that there are certain strategies to teach collaboration in a
classroom atmosphere. These strategies are taught the student how to ask questions, plan
activities, which are required deep thinking in complex problem solving, teach through conflicts,
model collaboration for their scholars (Hofverberg, & Maivorsdotter, 2018).
Strategies for encouraging students to monitor their work and engage in self-reflection
I have learned that there are some strategies for motivating scholars to assess their work as well
as, involve them in self-reflection. These strategies are asked for feedback; talk less, as well as,
leading the goal setting, and reflection (Binder, Davis, & Bloom, 2016).
A description of the type of teaching you prefer to demonstrate in the classroom
environment.
There are different types of teaching that I prefer to use in the classroom atmosphere are
discussion techniques, lecture methods, role plays and brainstorming. It would aid to improve
the learning of students (Štefaniková, & Prokop, 2015).
How your teaching practices will support the learning preferences of students based on
researched learning theories.

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I have increased my understanding that a learning style is a preference for technique by which, a
student can learn as well as, remember what they learned. These learning styles are auditory,
visual as well as, tactile. By focusing and observation, learning theories could be supportive for
me to reflect on activities that I consider, and whether I need to make improvement or not
(Hofverberg, & Maivorsdotter, 2018).
The importance of a teacher to assist diverse students’ learning
I have learned that teaching diversity prepares the scholar to become global citizens by
demonstrating them to individual belongs to different social groups as well as, cultures (Binder,
Davis, & Bloom, 2016).

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References
Binder, A. J., Davis, D. B., & Bloom, N. (2016). Career funneling: How elite students learn to
define and desire ‘‘prestigious’’ jobs. Sociology of Education, 89(1), 20-39.
Hofverberg, H., & Maivorsdotter, N. (2018). Recycling, crafting and learning–An empirical
analysis of how students learn with garments and textile refuse in a school remake
project. Environmental Education Research, 24(6), 775-790.
Štefaniková, S., & Prokop, P. (2015). Do we believe pictures more or spoken words? How
specific information affects how students learn about animals. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics,
Science & Technology Education, 11(4), 725-733.