Teaching and Training

Which paradigm considers it necessary to become proficient in modern, technological skill sets in order to be effective learners?

21st-century skills

Compare and contrast the roles of a teacher and a trainer. Discuss differences in knowledge areas and pedagogy in your answer.

A teacher and a trainer are similiar in a broad prospective. They both teach an individual, or a group, something that needs to be taught. They both have students, and they teach the students the essential things they need to be known. The also usually teach in there own area of mastery. The difference though, between teachers and trainers, is how broad the teaching is. While a trainer can be someone who is teaching someone to sing, swim, or something specific, the teacher can take on several roles. An example of this is early education teachers must teach the core materials to their students. This ends up broadening the teachers knowledge area, while the trainer had a limited knowledge area to teach.

Education is a lifelong process. Since learning occurs at all stages of life, it is important to understand the differences in younger and older learners. In approximately 150 words, discuss how adult learners are different than younger students.

Adult learners and younger students are different when it comes to being taught and trained. When children are learning, they are still developing they're motor skills, social behavior, cognitive ability, and linguistics. Because they are still at this stage, the people teaching and training them have to have some education in early childhood develpment and/or early education. While there is more time and effort put into children because of these developmental stages, adults have already gone through the process of their developmental stages.

Which of the following statements would Jean Piaget agree with?

Children have a natural curiosity that helps them to learn through discovery.

Which learning paradigm believes that the human mind is like a computer, in that people use their reasoning and memories to figure out new information, such as when teachers compare the lives of characters in a story to the students' own lives?

Cognitivism

Which education program was designed to help raise school standards to those of the top schools?

Common Core State Standards

Compare and contrast core abilities and competencies.

Core abilities and Competencies are similar because you learn both of them as you grow up. They are different because Core abilities are you fundamental capabilities that help enhance your learning, such as thinking critically. On the other hand, competencies are the abilities you have that you can demonstrate, such as reading, writing, math.

What is the difference between core abilities and competencies?

Core abilities are fundamental abilities that enhance learning, and competencies are skills that can be demonstrated.

Which of the following terms means the main idea, gist, central point, or core?

Crux

How can educators make sure that every student learns what they need to in order to be successful while working with the different learning styles of each student?

Educators can make sure that every student learns, even when the students have different learning styles, is by mixing up those different learning styles. The Educator can combine different learning styles into their teaching in order to have the most effective result.

Educational paradigms such as cognitivism, constructivism, and behaviorism are theories that deal with how people know things.

False

One of the challenges that is faced by current educational standards is training teachers to understand curriculums in order for them to become effective educators.

False

An English-language-arts teacher presents a selection of books that all have the same basic reading level to his students. The students are able to choose a book that they are interested in for a book report assignment. This is an example of which paradigm?

Humanism

Identify and describe instructional learning standards and why they are necessary.

Instructional learning standards are standards that are set in place for each grade to learn. An example of this is in 9th grade, you learn Algebra 1, and in 11th grade, you learn Algebra 2. These standards are necessary because they are designed to help everyone: school, teachers, and students

Which of the following theorists developed the social development theory, which believes that someone who knows more than the learner can show something new to the learner?

Lev Vygotsky

Which of the following is an example of logical-mathematical learning?

NOT creating a timeline of historic events Other options: interpreting data for a science experiment writing a poem in a creative-writing class brainstorming solutions to a word problem

Which of the following tasks is least likely to be a training objective for someone learning to be a hostess at a local, family-owned restaurant?

NOT learning the restaurant's scheduling software Other options: learning proper customer-service etiquette learning the table layout and seating charts learning the history of the founding owners

A student who prefers to work independently, thinking quietly about a problem until he arrives at a solution, would most likely fit into which of these learning styles?

NOT logical-mathematical Other Options: interpersonal intrapersonal bodily kinesthetic

What is one key similarity between teaching and training?

Not They both involve knowledge of action-based learning theories Other Options: They both involve traditional academic-learning tasks, such as reading and memorizing information. They both involve learning, how to use specific equipment and machinery. They both use experiential learning so learners can use what they know to master a learning objective.

Why is it challenging to create an educational program based on standardized assessments that is equitable for all learners?

Not all learners master skills the same way, and at the same rate

In a response of approximately 100 words, explain why schools first began looking at ways to standardize their curriculums.

Not one-room schoolhouses compared lessons, so all rural children had the same advantages. Other Options: Private schools wanted to all be sure the quality of their educations matched those of other schools. Government policymakers became interested in education when tax dollars began funding public schools. Employers began expressing interest in educational standards when they began hiring high-school graduates.

How would you classify this adult learner's statement according to Knowles' key aspects of andragogy? "I am eager to begin training for my new job as a mechanic. I love cars and have always been successful at learning skills that require me to work with my hands."

Not readiness Other options: the need to know orientation to learning the role of former experiences

What is the main purpose of an outcomes-based education?

Not to get learners to perform skills faster, to improve productivity Other Options: to train learners to be able to perform a new skill to teach learners entering the workforce to be polite to coworkers to ensure that all graduates can do complex math problems

Which of the following terms are associated with the humanism paradigm? (Select all that apply.)

Personal Freedom Self-actualization

Manny suffered from chronic ear infections when he was young and missed some fundamental building blocks in his Pre-K class. How could this affect his future success as a learner?

Research shows that external factors such as this could negatively affect a learner's future success in the classroom.

One of the criticisms of high-stakes testing is that it makes some teachers feel like they are cogs in a machine. Which statement below explains their reasoning?

Some teachers think that teaching to the test removes their own individuality and love of the subject, because they simply drill test content.

What void within society became the impetus for the creation of standardized assessments?

Students were graduating without having attained a basic level of knowledge necessary to join the adult workforce.

Identify and describe the learning paradigm and /or learning theory this scenario represents. Scenario: An elementary-school teacher reads a story to the class about how plants grow. When the teacher is finished reading the story, she reviews the growth stages of a plant and uses flashcards that illustrate each stage. Then, the teacher gives each student a set of flash cards. The teacher tests the students' understanding of the process by having them hold up the flash cards in sequential order. The teacher rewards the students' success with praise and stickers.

There are three different learning styles going on in this scenerio. The three learning paradigm are Cognitivism, Constructivism, and Behaviorism. Cognitivism is used when the teacher is demonstrating how plants grow, by reading a story, reviewing, and showing the flashcards of each stage. Cognitivism works here because it's all about memory and reasoning when you get to the part when she has you put up your own flashcards in order. That's where Constructivism comes in. Constructivism gets done because students can also learn by doing, such as holding up flashcards. And, in the end, if they get the flashcards in the right order, that's when the teacher rewards them with praise and stickers. This is the learning paradigm Behaviorism.

What is one way that teachers encounter difficulties in implementing standardized guidelines?

They cannot balance the need to teach to individual learning styles with the need to have a measurable standard assessment.

Can you identify one way that today's classroom is an improvement over the one-room schoolhouse of the past?

Today's classroom contains students of the same general age and ability, whereas the one-room schoolhouse taught all ages and abilities together.

Learning theorists combine their knowledge, prior and current research in the field, and their own experiences and observations to develop theories. Once they have formalized their theories, it may take years of research to test their hypotheses before they can be applied to mainstream education.

True

Students who perform poorly on standardized tests are often discouraged from learning and believe they do not have valuable abilities or knowledge.

True

The art and science of assessment is a developing field for research, discussion, and design.

True

What does the word conundrum mean?

a perplexing problem

Which of the following is an example of an assessment?

a restaurant critique

Which learning theory builds upon the humanist idea that individuals must combine thinking and experience in order to learn?

collaborative-learning theory

What does the term linguistic diversity mean?

differences in language abilities and knowledge

What is one example of a how a linguist can work in the field of education?

esearch word-recognition patterns in language learners

Which of the following lessons would be best taught through teaching, as opposed to training?

learning how to speak a foreign language

Which of the following terms means "able to be of value in business"?

marketable

Which of the following are courses that would be least likely to be taught in an outcomes-based education program?

philosophy

Bill is an economics professor at a local college who is creating a lesson plan for his new students. Which of the following topics is most likely to be included in his lesson plan?

public financial policies

What does the word competency refer to?

something the learner learns to do effectively

Which of the four key educational knowledge areas has to do with how to evaluate the consistent quality of the education?

standards and practices

Before instructional standards were developed, which demographic was least likely to receive a high-quality education?

students from lower-income families

Which of the following skills would least likely be of interest to potential employers of a high-school graduate?

the ability to creatively solve problems

What of the following could be categorized as a marketable skill in today's technological age?

the ability to do simple math

What does the term andragogy mean?

the art and science of helping adults learn