Addressing the Learning Obstacles in Education
Winning Teams enables educators/lecturers with their learners to overcome these obstacles and create a successful learning culture
THE PROBLEM: The educator / lecturer
- has a narrow understanding of his/her role – to teach, assess and cover the curriculum, regardless of impact on learning
- reverts to old chalk and talk methods
- often has poor content knowledge
- has low expectations of learners
- h as little time to cover an extensive curriculum
- provides negligible time for practice and revision, with little feedback on assessment
- has ongoing discipline problems
OUR SOLUTION:
The educator/lecturer expects learners to become agents of their own learning.
The educator / lecturer
- becomes a facilitator and provides support for real learning and practice
- plans her time to include learning, revision, practice and preparation for examinations
- manages discipline better because of the learning environment created
- provides immediate feedback to learners on their progress
THE PROBLEM: The learner
- is demotivated or disruptive
- begins with little knowledge and content gaps from previous years
- has not learnt how to learn!
- passively expects learning to happen to them
- has poor English (second language) skills – used for all teaching and testing
- has little time and space for learning, practising and revising
OUR SOLUTION: The Learner
The learner actively becomes an agent of his / her own learning.
- is motivated and interested in learning
- learns how to learn
- revises and practises what is learnt
- builds mastery in English
- studies independently and with peers
- engages in peer teaching
- makes sure he/she is exam ready
