How Students Learn

9 Pages 2280 Words

Major Paper Outline

I) Intro
¨ How students learn
¨ Factors that influence
(a) Learning styles
(b) Motivation of Students
(c) Developmental stages
(d) Brain Research/Memory
(e) Personal Belief
(f) Assessment
(g) Multiple Intelligence Learning
(h) Experiences
II) Learning Styles
¨ Definition
¨ Physical surroundings
¨ Culture/Personality
III) Motivation of Students
¨ Definition
¨ Intrinsic/Extrinsic Motivation
IV) Developmental Stages
¨ Psychosocial
(a) Erikson
¨ Cognitive
(a) Piaget
V) Brain Research/Memory
¨ Definition
¨ Standard Memory Model
(a) Encoding
(b) Storage
(c) Retrieval
VI) Personal Belief
¨ Philosophy
VII) Assessment
¨ Definition
¨ Formal/Informal
¨ Criterion-referenced/Norm-referenced
Assessment as feedback
VIII) Multiple Intelligence Learning
¨ Definition
¨ 8 types of intelligence
IX) Experiences
¨ Episodic memory
X) Conclusion



How Students Learn

There are many factors that influence how students learn and to be and effective teacher you need to understand them. Factors that should be looked at include: learning styles, motivation of students, developmental stages, discipline, brain research, a students personal belief, how you assess students, multiple intelligence learning and experiences. Depending on which academic level you apply these to, each will give you a different understanding of how students at that level learn. In this essay, the factors mentioned above, will be applied to students in secondary education.
The first factor deals with student leaning styles and how they affect the way in which students learn. Learning styles are students’ individual preferences or needs for different learning conditions. Students have different preferences for aspects of the classroom environment. Physical surroundings that are uncomfortable to students can take away from their learning. In Secondary education, students are more likely to be ...