Learning from a student perspective. 1-A good student is the one who is excited about his lessons. He likes to get to the bottom of things. To reach understanding. He often reflects on possibilities, implicat ions. Applications and consequenc es of what he is learning. He is characterized by a preference for deep learning. He is spontaneously uses higher cognitive processes. Faced with the curriculum she basically teaches herself. In fact we cannot prevent him from learning. 2-A bad students goal is not to achieve understanding. In fact he doesnt care about learning itself. His goal is different. His goal is to get a piece of paper and a handshake from an important man, to pass exams, get a degree and get a decent job. He is charact erized by surface learning. He will only use higher cogn itive processes only as i fhe really has to. He will cut any corner in achieving his goals with minimum effort . Teaching from teachers perspective. 1-A level one teacher is concern ed with what students are. From him the exam is a matter of sorting the good student from the bad. This labeling conveniently defers responsibility. In particular we cannot do anything about it. It is just the way students are, either good or bad. This good-student-and-bad student perspective is also known as blame the student perspective. 2-A level 2 teacher has the focus on the teacher and his concern is what the teacher does. From this perspective there are good teacher and bad ones. This perspective is known as blame the teacher perspective. A so called good level - two teacher will attempt to arm himself with an armada of teaching techn iques, tips and tricks. There are many types of level-two teacher. However common for most of these, apart from having a teacher fo cus, is that the result is having passive students. We need to engage and activate student s. As clearly demonstrated by an entertainer teacher, activation itself i s not enough. 3-A teacher at the most advanced level is particularly conc erned with what student does before, during, and after teaching. That is he is particularly concerned with the product , with the learning outcome of the teaching. Understanding Understanding 1-Homo sapiens are quite bad at memorizing random informat ion. 2-We , as humans, learn by associating new and unknown information with old and well - known information, or we build new information over the top of old information. 3-The point is knowledge is constru cted as a result of a learners activity. This is clearly opposite to the old idea that knowledge transforms from a teacher to a passive student. Transmission is not the way humans learn.
