Learning & Teaching
Click: BYU-I Learning Model
A book that talks about teaching and learning is called The Action Learning Handbook. It is by Ian McGill and Anne Brockbank, and it talks about different ways to succeed when learning, and one of the ways is to have the support of the teachers, which something that we have here at this university. It also talks about how learning is a process that never ends, which is something that we have been taught in the church, nd it is also discusses how we can achieve improvement and transformations in a wide range wide of applications and disciplines.Submitted by: Sibonet Holden
on the site http://www.personal.psu.edu/bxb11/LSI/LSI.htm you can take a quiz to gain a better understanding of yourself as a learner. also, on http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intanet/committees/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm#learn there is a great deal of information how how pepole learn. It has topics such as communication, critical thinkin, teaching techniques, how people learn, motivating students and the list goes on.
Annelise Mckendrick
Plato's "Allegory of the Cave"
Preach My Gospel
The church is organized to perfect and bless lives of the members. It gives us opportunities to teach one another the gospel, fellowship and serve one another, and support one another in our quest for salvation. In the family and through the church, each member is taught the doctrines of the gospel. When members are called to teaching assignments, they are provided materials and help to enable them to succed. In the book tell me a riddle Talks about how this mother feel to be there for her daughter. When her daughter young scary stuff, she told her nothing to ber scared of. Susan and Emily play kingdom they were learning and teaching at the same time.By Dallin Saurey
The Emperor’s New Suit
by
Hans Christian Andersen
(1837)
This is about an Emperor who loves clothes and loves people to admire his clothing. One day two swindlers, who had made people believe they were weavers, convinced the Emperor they made the finest clothing that possessed the wonderful quality of being invisible to any man unfit for his office or that was unpardonably stupid. The Emperor was excited for his beautiful suit, and also to find out who was unfit for their office and to know the clever from the stupid. The story turns out with the "weavers" pretending to make a suit but no one dared to say they cound't see it. For they did not want anyone to think they were stupid or unfit for their office. The story continues with the "weavers" pretending to actually make the full suit, again no one not even the emperor dared say they couldn't see it for fear of being unfit or stupid. The suit finally gets finished and the Emperor "puts on the suit" and pretends he really can see it. He marches outside into the streets of his empire to show his suit off. The people in the street all admiring the suit and the colors, and the fit. All except one small child who says, "But he has nothing on at all." Slowly the crowd of people start to notice the "suit" more closely.
I really like this story. It truly shows us how as we grow older we tend to "follow" the leader more often than not. We truly need to humble ourselves and be as little children. We need to stop being a follower and not be afraid to ask questions or comment on something we see or understand. I think this is a powerful principle that many people including myself could strive to be better at.
Rachel Carter
Tuesdays with Morrie
By Mitch Albom
I'm reading this book for the first time and I am loving it. It is full of things and lessons that we all should learn and apply to our lives. Morrie (a dying old professor) teaches Mitch (a former student) about death. In this portion of the book he particularly teaches Mitch about detachment of emotion.
It starts on pg 104.
"If you hold back on the emotions- if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them- you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. You know what pain is. You know what love is. YOu know what grief is. And only then can you say,'Alright. I have experienced that emotion. I recognize that emotion. Now I need to detach from that emotion for a moment.'"
Morrie also says something else that I think is very important in the learning process. "When you learn how to die, you learn how to live."
Pg 118 Mitch and Morrie are discussing age and wishing you could go back to a certain, younger, age. Morrie says, "It's very simple. As you grow, you learn more. If you stayed 22, you'd always be as ignorant as you were at 22. Aging is not just decay, you know, It's growth. It's more that negative that you're going to die, It's also the positive that you understand you're going to die, and that you live a better life because of it." ..."Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. YOu want to see more, do more. You can't wait until 65."
This is a wonderful book that I think we can definately apply to our lives and make us that much more aware of others and understand and learn the true meaning of life and why we are here on this earth.
Rachel Carter
A Book Of Verses For Children
compiled by Edward Verrall Lucas
A Lesson for Mamma by Sydney Dayre
Dear mother, if you just could be
A tiny little girl like me,
And I your mother, you would see
How nice I'd be to you.
I'd always let you have your way;
I'd never frown at you and say;
"You are behaving ill to-day;
Such conduct will not do."
I'd always give you jelly-cake
For breakfast, and I'd never shake
My head, and say; "You must not take
So very large a slice."
I'd never say; "My dear, I trust
You will not make me say you must
Eat up your oatmeal" ; or, "The crust
You'll find is very nice."
I'd buy you candy every day;
I'd go down town with you, and say;
"What would my darling like? You may
Have anything you see."
I'd never say; "My pet, you know
'Tis bad for health and teeth, and so
I cannot let you have it. No;
It would be wrong in me."
And every day I'd let you wear
Your nicest dress, and never care
If it should get a great big tear;
I'd only say to you:
:My precious treasure, never mind,
For little clothes will tear, I find."
NOw, mother, wouldn't that be kind?
That's just what I should do.
I'd never say; "Well, just a few!"
I'd let you stop your lessons, too;
I'd say: "They are too hard for you,
Poor child, to understand."
I'd put the books and slates away;
You shouldn't do a thing but play,
And have a party every day.
Ah-h-h! wouldn't that be grand!
But, mother dear, you cannot grow
Into a little girl, you know,
And I can't be your mother; so
The only thing to do,
Is just for you to try and see
How very, very nice 'twould be
For you to do all this for me.
Now, mother, couldn't you?
I thought this was a cute poem about what a child's perspective is on the things they are asked to do and the things they are asked not to do. In this poem a child is teaching the mom just what it feels like to be a child.
Silas Marner: "The Weaver of Raveloe"
The novel is set in the earlier years of the 19th century. Silas Marner is a weaver in a small religious community, Lantern Yard. He is also a highly thought of member of a dissenting chapel. Silas is engaged to a female member of the church and thinks that his future happiness is assured. However, due to the betrayal of a fellow parishioner, who blames him for a theft that he did not commit, Silas is expelled from the congregation. He finds out later that his former fiancée married the man who had betrayed him.
Later on, he settles near the village of Raveloe, where he lives as a recluse who exists only for work and his precious hoard of money until that money is stolen by Dunstan Cass, a dissolute son of Squire Cass, the town's leading landowner. The loss of his gold drives Silas into a deep gloom, although a number of the villagers endeavour to help him. He later takes in an orphaned girl and through this, he is taught that gold, money, and wealth are not all that is important in life.
Tina Trepanier
The book, Tuesdays with Morrie shows an example of a great teacher. Throughout the book, Morrie teachs everyone, including people he doesn't know. One of my favorite lessons he gives is about love and service:
"You Know what really gives you satisfaction?
What?
Offering others what you have to give.
You sound like a Boy Scout.
...Remember what I said about finding a meaningful life? I wrote it down, but now I can recite it: Devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning."
Morrie was a genius. If we share our time and talents, not only will we be teaching others what we know, but we will also make a difference in their lives.
Submitted by Kim Larson
101 Tips for the College-bound student
The link above will take you to the adobe version of the book.
This book gives helpful hints and clues and some other tips that are just obvious. They seem to help and i would recomend someone who has bad learning skills or who would just like to see what other little facts the book has.
Submitted by Kendall George
Learning Styles
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
This is a link for a questionarie that asks you a bunch of different questions to determine your own learning style, and how you learn best. By taking this survey we learn how and in what ways we learn the best. By knowing this we can use the ways that we learn the best, if we are struggling in one of our classes, it can help us to know what we may need to do to learn more efficient in our study habits. Also if we are teaching a class and we had our students take this we could serve the learning styles of our students to that everyone can learn more and be able to enjoy it more. This can help us to become better students, teachers, and learners in all that we do. GIve is a try and see what style works for you!
Cari Berrett
Patrick Goes to School
"I'm going to school tomorrow, just
To Learn to write and read.
I wish I didn't have to, for
I do not see the need."
"Do you want to be," said Dad," a deep-
Dyed ig-no-ra-mous, Pat?"
"Oh, no!" I cried, "I'd hate to be
A dreadful thing like that!
"And so I thought I'd go to school
To learn to read and write.
So not to be that 'deep-dyed' thing
Dad spoke about tonight."
Alicia Aspinwall
When I looked in the library, in the groups today, I found the book My Poetry Book. I looked through it to see if i found any poems where a child would learn a lesson of some sort. I came across this poem and really enjoyed it. It shows how what parents say really have an effect on us when we are young. The child in the poem didn't want to go to school because he didn’t understand the point of it. The dad asked him if he wanted to be an ignoramus. The child therefore made the connection that if he doesn’t go to school he would be a deep- dyed ignoramus. Though it may not work for a college student to tell them they would become an ignoramus if they didn’t go to class, for a little child, they not be able to comprehend why school is important for their future, telling them this would be something they could understand.
Submitted by Elisa Guzman
“We Thank Thee”
For mother-love and father-care,
For brothers strong and sisters fair,
For love at home and here each day,
For guidance lest we go astray,
Father in Heaven, we thank Thee.
For this new morning with its light,
For the rest and shelter of the night,
For health and food, for love and friends,
For ev’rything His goodness sends,
Father in Heaven, we thank Thee.
For flowers that bloom about our feet,
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet,
For song of bird and hum of bee,
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in Heaven, we thank Thee.
For blue of stream and blue of sky,
For pleasant shade of branches high,
For fragrant air and cooling breeze,
For beauty of the blooming trees,
Father in Heaven, we thank Thee.
Unknown
I also found this poem, I thought it was good to show humility. I think that humility has a lot to do with the process of learning and growing. It is Christ we should thank for everything we have in this life. This poem shows just how many things we should be thankful for that we may take advantage of.
Submitted by Elisa Guzman
Learning and Teaching Model
With the new learning model in effect, there are five principles or goals, which have been implemented. The first is to exercise faith in Christ that takes action and power. The second is the understanding that the Holy Ghost is needed. The third is to lay hold on the word of god. Fourth is to act for ourselves and accept responsibility for our own learning and teaching. Then fifth is the need to love, serve, and teach one another.
Thinking about these goals and the great need on us to put forth extended effort to learn it came to me in my scripture reading that this learning model has been implemented for awhile. When Christ was on the earth he constantly taught in parables with the goal that: “Unto you it is given to know the amysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in bparables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not cunderstand (Luke 8:10).”
Pondering on this scripture and thinking about the new learning model I have come to realize that if Heavenly Father wants us to learn the secrets of the kingdom or to have a deeper understanding and knowledge then we must put forth the extended effort to receive the knowledge. How do we do this? I really think that it is through faith, the Holy Ghost, searching the word of God, accepting responsibility for our own learning and then acting on the things taught (the five principles of the learning model).
To find literature on this topic I decided to go out and find a piece of literature of someone outside the church and then find a piece of literature within the church and see how they compare.
1) Outside church: Full Article: http://www.rc.net/wcc/parable1.htm “God can only reveal the secrets of his kingdom to the humble and trusting person who acknowledges the need for God and for his truth. The parables of Jesus will enlighten us if we approach them with an open mind and heart, ready to let them challenge us. If we approach them with the conviction that we already know the answer, then we, too, may look but not see, listen but not hear or understand… If we listen with faith and humility then each will understand as he or she is able to receive what Jesus wishes to speak to each of our hearts (The Parable of Jesus, Don Schwager, July 2001).”
2) In Church: Parables of Jesus: The Priceless Parables Frank F. Judd Jr., “Parables of Jesus: The Priceless Parables,” Ensign, Jan 2003, 56
Alma 12:9-10: “It is given unto many to know the mysteries of God … according to the heed and diligence which they give unto him. And therefore, he that will harden his heart, the same receiveth the lesser portion of the word; and he that will not harden his heart, to him is given the greater portion of the word, until it is given unto him to know the mysteries of God until he know them in full” (Alma 12:9–10; emphasis added).
James E. Talmage: “Two men may hear the same words,” wrote Elder James E. Talmage (1862–1933). “One of them listens in indolence and indifference, the other with active mind intent on learning all that the words can possibly convey; and, having heard, the diligent man goes straightway to do the things commended to him, while the careless one neglects and forgets. The one is wise, the other foolish; the one has heard to his eternal profit, the other to his everlasting condemnation.”
Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–85) said: “Parables are a call to investigate the truth; to learn more; to inquire into the spiritual realities, which, through them, are but dimly viewed. Parables start truth seekers out in the direction of further light and knowledge and understanding; they invite men to ponder such truths as they are able to bear in the hope of learning more. Parables are a call to come unto Christ, to believe his doctrines, to live his laws, and to be saved in his kingdom.”
I have noticed through this topic that the learning required with the knew learning model almost seems like the learning needed to understand the parables and knowledge Heavenly Father wants to give us. If we can adapt the new learning model then you would think that we would gain the skills in understanding the scriptures better.
Submitted by: Amber Preston
Gospel Doctorine Taught Through Poetry
The poem “Vade Mecum” was written by William W. Phelps. Phelps and Joseph Smith had always cared, and enjoyed both friendly and religious experiences together. Phelps was so used to representing Joseph that he employed his favorite literary device, poetry, to promote the Prophet’s image and doctrinal teachings. One of these pieces was the poem entitled “Vade Mecum.” Phelps felt pretty good about the fact that he was able to incorporate gospel doctrine into a poem. I must have been surprised when Joseph Smith responded with a poem called “The Vision,” which is a poetical rendering of Doctrine and Covenants section 76. This poem is a good example of how gospel doctrine can be taught in a variety of ways, one being poetry. If you read this poem and compare to D&C 76, you will gain more insight about what D&C 76 is talking about.
Submitted by: Mike Preston
My accounting teacher, Brother Packard, introduced me to this piece of literature.
I chose to search out short stories on the topic of teaching and learning. Here is a link to the story I read, http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SS11.HTML. The title is Regret, by Kate Chopin. As you read it you might wonder what it has to do with teaching and learning. I thought as I read it how often times we learn the most when we are required to do a task that we don't really know how to do. And with this happens our teachers are often those whom we don't think have anything to teach us. Like the children in this story. This woman learned a lot about herself and life because she was faced with a challenge she wasn't ready for. Each of us have challenges every day and it is our choice to either run from them or face them head on and learn something new.
http://www.americanliterature.com/SS/SSINDX.HTML this link will take you to a list of 20 great american short stories.
Teach Ye Diligently
This is a book that I found at the library about teaching and there are several copies left to check out there. It is written by Boyd K. Packer. It talks about how we all can be teachers if we act on our desire. There is a part that talks about how people have to work to obtain the gift of teaching. The following poem discusses this:
He worked by day and toiled by night;
He gave up play and all delight.
Dry books he read , new things to learn,
And forged ahead, success to earn.
He nodded on with faith and pluck,
And when he won, men called it luck.
I like how in this poem, it talks about how some people think that others are naturally good at things and that they don't have to work for them. In most cases this is not true. We need to constantly be working as life is a learning process. The more effort that we put in the greater the outcome will be. Christ was the master teacher and we should all turn to him as an example of the greatest teacher.
Celeste Olsen
The Ultimate Gift is a great book by Jim Stovell. It tells a story of a young man, Jason, whose grandfather passes away and Jason expects to get a large amount of money form his grandfather's oil company. Jason finds out in order to receive his inheritance he must complete 12 tasks in a year, one every month, that will teach him the gift of either money, friendship, or learning. Jason is very bitter and upset about this because he is used to getting whatever he wants. He finally decides to go along with what he has to do, and over the year he realizes money is not everything. Jason learns and grows, and really humbles himself, and in the end he is thankful for what he is taught from his deceased grandfather. This book was also made into a movie, and below is a preview for it. Brenda Roberts
ALearning How to Learn@
Brigham Young University-Idaho Commencement
April 26, 2003
Elder Henry B. Eyring
I am grateful to be with you on this day when graduates, families, and faculty are honored. You have my admiration and my thanks.
My message is one of hope in a rapidly changing world. I hear frequently these words, spoken with concern: Nothing will be the way it was. It is easy to overestimate how rapidly and completely things are changing. But one thing is clear: what you have learned to date won=t be sufficient for the future. Your hope and mine is that you have learned how to learn. That gift will turn out to be priceless.
The very nature of this university gives me confidence that you have learned how to learn. All we do here is founded in the restored Gospel of Jesus Christ. There is in it what might appear as a paradox: God is an unchangeable God yet His Church is continually changing. Well, it is not a paradox. It is perfectly logical. The principles by which God works are eternal. And God reveals to His servants and to His disciples how to apply those principles to fit changing conditions.
So, you have been taught to look for principles which will endure no matter what the conditions and also to plead for the Spirit to help you know how to apply them.
For instance, your teachers in religion classes have taught you this principle: Awickedness never was happiness.@1 That has always been true and always will be. And you have found the need to plead for the Holy Ghost to help you apply that principle in a world which has turned things upside down, branding wickedness as happiness and trying to convince you that misery is best treated medically rather than by repentance. It never was easy to apply that principle. But you have been taught that it is true and how to get the help you will need to apply it in a shifting world.
You have had encouragement to learn how to find and apply lasting principles from all of your teachers. My teachers did that for me. Long ago I was taught in physics class the laws of motion. You remember: To every force there is an equal and opposite reaction. It was true when Newton proposed his third law of motion, it was still true after much of the rest of what I learned in physics was replaced, and it will be true as long as the world stands. And those teachers gave me more opportunity than I wanted to learn how to apply the laws of motion. The problems I was assigned to work seem to come back whenever I ride an elevator. I still remember struggling to solve problems about elevators in motion. It wasn=t fun, but it taught me that you only really learn a principle by using it, over and over again.
Your political science teacher might have helped you discover this principle: power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That=s a principle to ponder when you are in a position of power someday.
Some of you may go on to be trained in professions. I=ve asked some great teachers if there are principles you must learn to serve well in a changing world. One law professor told me that you should understand the principle of due process. He said that it means there is a proper way to do things. You will apply that principle differently in the English legal tradition than you will in other legal systems. But the understanding of due process and the ability to apply it will serve you wherever you may practice law.
A great teacher of accounting taught me the principle that I was to provide my clients timely, accurate, and useful information to make good decisions. That was true for the clerk who sat on a stool near the cold fireplace in the office of Ebenezer Scrooge. It will be true in whatever world of business may be ahead of us, anywhere in the world.
A great surgeon told me that he taught his students this principle: collections of infected fluid must be drained thoroughly. He applied that principle once by leaving a large wound open until it drained. Your medical school professor will help you learn how to use that principle in a variety of situations. And you will be ready to be taught because you have learned here to be eager to discover fundamental principles and have learned to pay the full price to know how to apply them.
Your gospel study will give you confidence in that process. For example, take that maxim from the political science professor: power corrupts; and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Your Book of Mormon study taught you about that principle. And so did your class in the Doctrine and Covenants. You learned that the principle applied exactly to wicked King Noah. But good King Mosiah and good King Benjamin seemed to escape the corruption. You learned from the 121st section that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men to exercise unrighteous dominion. But Heavenly Father and the Savior have power which is absolute. Yet they are free of corruption. That is because they know eternal principles perfectly and they are perfectly obedient to them. So, you have learned to apply the principle as this: Apower tends to corrupt.@ By living true principles we can exercise power that blesses those we serve and need not corrupt but can exalt.
The Lord ended that 121st section with this principle of promise in the use of power:
ALet thy bowels also be full of charity towards all men, and to the household of faith, and let virtue garnish thy thoughts unceasingly; then shall thy confidence wax strong in the presence of God; and the doctrine of the priesthood shall distill upon thy soul as the dews from heaven.@2
You have learned in your studies that God works by unchanging principles. You will find that the search for enduring principles has become natural to you in every field of study. You have had success seeking the wisdom to apply principles. You have learned that obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel will bring you the inspiration you will need to be a learner forever.
Those habits of learning will serve you well wherever you live, whatever changes come in the future, and whatever service you may give in the world and in the Kingdom of God.
I bear you my testimony that God lives and that He loves us. He can be trusted because He is bound by eternal principles. His beloved Son is our Savior. Because of His Atonement we will be raised in the resurrection. And by obedience to His commandments we can have the Holy Ghost as a companion. With that spirit we can be led to find and apply principles which endure. The personal standards you have made your own will give you the right to inspiration. With your capacity to find lasting principles and to use them wisely, you will make remarkable contributions in your families, in the Church, and in the world.
We send you forth with confidence, with our love, and with great expectations for your future learning and future service.
In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.
Notes
1. See Alma 41:10.
2. Doctrine and Covenants 121:4
This was an awesome talk on learning to learn and it really stressed the importance of learning by faith. It also stressed the importance of learning by the Holy Spirit and to seek its guidance always. Also, in the talk it explains that we must be able to understand those simple things that have been reiterrated to us over and over again. You should all take an opportunity to read it...
Submitted by Chelsea Ames
From: A Dictionary of American Proverbs
It is one thing to get educated and another thing to keep educated.
A little education is a dangerous thing.
Education begins a gentleman; conversation completes him.
Education doesn’t come by bumping your head against the schoolhouse.
Education is a gift that none can take away.
Education is an investment never to be lost nor removed.
Education is the best provision for old age.
Education makes the man.
Never let your education interfere with your intelligence.
Silver and gold may tarnish away, but a good education will never decay.
There is no education like adversity.
It is only the ignorant that despise education.
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Easy to learn, hard to master.
He who never learns anything never forgets anything.
In order to learn, we must attend.
It is a task to learn, but it is much harder to unlearn.
It is never too late to learn.
Learn as you’d live forever; live as you’d die tomorrow.
Learn not, know not.
Learn something new every day.
Learn to know when you are well off.
Learn to unlearn what you have learned to miss.
Learn well and know better.
Lessons hard to learn are sweet to know.
Men learn while they teach.
We can only learn from our betters.
We learn by doing, achieve by pursuing.
We learn by mistakes.
We learn not for school but for life.
We learn not in school but in life.
What is well learned is not forgotten.
What we learn early we remember late.
You are never too wise to learn.
You can’t learn any younger.
A barber learns to shave by shaving fools.
You cannot be a true man until you learn to obey.
By doing nothing we learn to do ill.
You must learn to stoop as you go through life.
A man doesn’t learn to understand anything unless he loves it.
Wise men learn by other men’s mistakes; fools insist on learning by their own.
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A closed book does not produce a learned man.
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Advance in learning as you advance in life.
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
Learning has no enemy but ignorance.
Learning has no limit.
Learning makes a good man better and a bad man worse.
Learning refines and elevates the mind.
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is dangerous.
Men of learning are plain men.
Most of the learning in use is of no great use.
One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to use it.
Wear your learning like your watch, in a private pocket.
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He that teaches himself has a fool for a teacher.
Men learn while they teach.
Who teaches me for a day is my father for a lifetime.
Children can teach old folks.
You have to be smarter than the dog to teach him tricks.
Failure teaches success.
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He is the best teacher who follows his own instructions.
If the learner hasn’t learned, the teacher hasn’t taught.
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Teaching should be full of ideas, not stuffed with facts.
Submitted by Tyson Scott
I found on the internet a magazine article titled "Diversity, Learning Style and Culture" by Pat Burke Guild. This may not be traditional literature such as a novel or a poem, but this magazine article identifed the key elements of what learning and teaching should consist of. For example, in this article the author talks about how everyone has a different learning style and traditional classroom settings throughout the world are basically the same. However, it is important that there be diversity in the classroom and that there not be a sameness in the teacher's teaching style and how he/she presents the curriculum. But that is the easiest way to teach, when everything is the same including the tests, homework assigments and class discussions. The author said that in order for the student and the teacher to embrace diversity there needs to not be a sameness to everything. It would be beneficial if there were different teaching methods that could be experienced in the classroom in order to promote diversity. However, this is not happening in classrooms throughout the world. Most teachers teach the same way and if a student cannot learn by that teacher's teaching method they are "labeled as being disabled." For example, the author said in this article that some people are hands on learners and like to be active and because of this the teacher will label the child as having ADHD. In many cases, the child will not have that mental illness, but because they learn in a different way than most people do, they are automatically labeled as "different" and "handicapped." It is important that as us students we be open to different teaching and learning methods. I honestly have learned more in this class than in any other class that I have had because our teacher chose to embrace teacing English 250 in a non-traditional way.
Submitted by Melissa Mortensen
Learning by Doing
I just love this poem by Howard Nemerov. It teaches us that many times we think we know the answers in life. At times we make choices and take action- however as seen by the protagonist in the poem we are not always right and at times make mistakes. Though our choices may destroy something and beautiful and great as a giant tree, we need to put our mistakes behind us and keep on going. We learn by acting, and should not become discouraged when we make mistakes.
http://famouspoetsandpoems.com/poets/howard_nemerov/poems/19541
Submitted by Aaron Olsen
Here is a good web sight that gives different teaching tips and helps you determine what ways would be better to teach to certain students:
http://holaluluhawaii.edu/intranet/committies/FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm
Danielle RowLee
I have had a calling this past semester as Sunday School President in my ward. There is a lot that ties into learning and teaching in this position. I have a manual called Improving Gospel Teaching from the church that gives a great summary on how to be a great Sunday school teacher. I believe that we can apply these teachings it gives to us not only in Sunday school lessons but in applications in our lives of teaching and learning. Talk to your Bishop about looking and this instruction book, it is really good.
Also as mentioned Earlier another great tool for teaching and learning is the missionary Handbook known as Preach My Gospel. the whole book is modern scripture that deals with how teach with power and authority under the Spirirt and to become a real listener. One can learn a whole lot from reading this manual.....it was this manual and my scriptures that were constantly open on my mission and even after this manual and my scriptures are still the books that are always open. Please read and study Preach My Gospel!
Jeff Tobler
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