This paper is about teaching and learning theories; their backgrounds and contemporary understand... more This paper is about teaching and learning theories; their backgrounds and contemporary understandings expressed by different experts from various countries. It also gives insight into the results of a pilot research of Latvian teachers practitioners about their perceptions, thoughts and ideas about teaching/learning.
The aim of this paper is to discuss the changing roles and skills of a teacher in context of life... more The aim of this paper is to discuss the changing roles and skills of a teacher in context of lifelong learning. This has been accomplished by the review of the literature on management, managerial skills in business field as well as education. The results of this practical research outline teachers' understanding of managerial qualities and readiness to act as managers of teaching/learning process.
This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose r... more This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose role as professionals is also changing. Traditional approach to teaching/learning process involves the directed flow of information from a teacher as sage to students as receivers. How effective this transmission of the information has been can be tested by different tests. In OECD Background Report for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession (2012) it is stated that changes in the demand for skills have evident implications that teachers themselves need to acquire new competencies to be able to work effectively. In today's world where young generation is IT literate, routine or subject based knowledge is being digitized, teachers "need to enable people to become lifelong learners, to manage non-rule-based complex ways of thinking and complex ways of working that computers cannot take over easily" (p. 35).
Taxonomy(from Greek ‘taxis’ meaning arrangement or division and ‘nomos’ meaninglaw) is the scienc... more Taxonomy(from Greek ‘taxis’ meaning arrangement or division and ‘nomos’ meaninglaw) is the science of classification according to a pre-determined system. Inthis article taxonomy will be viewed as classification of thinking.Insteadof the traditional approach of directing instruction to the transmission ofknowledge and defining objectives in terms of content to be learnt,student-centred approach acknowledges what the student does. An instrument likea taxonomy can be used for planning, learning and assessment.Learningcan be categorized based on the complexity of the thought process used.Teachers apply Bloom's Taxonomy in the classroom to enhance students' knowledgeby helping them use increasingly complex reasoning. SOLO, which stands for theStructure of the Observed Learning Outcome, is essentially ahierarchy which has five stages or levels that attempts to assess the studentslearning based on the quality of their work. Theaim of the article is to study theoretically two taxon...
This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose r... more This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose role as professionals is also changing. Traditional approach to teaching/learning process involves the directed flow of information from a teacher as sage to students as receivers. How effective this transmission of the information has been can be tested by different tests. In OECD Background Report for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession (2012) it is stated that changes in the demand for skills have evident implications that teachers themselves need to acquire new competencies to be able to work effectively. In today’s world where young generation is IT literate, routine or subject based knowledge is being digitized, teachers “need to enable people to become lifelong learners, to manage non-rule-based complex ways of thinking and complex ways of working that computers cannot take over easily” (p. 35).
Learning is an intangible production of a tangible product and like all production processes, it ... more Learning is an intangible production of a tangible product and like all production processes, it requires someone who knows how to manage the process in order to achieve the desired result. It really has been long enough 12 years in the new century and still one can see the 25-30 students in traditional classrooms with students sitting in rows at the desks listening (or pretending to listen) to teachers and doing monotonous activities. Classrooms have improved, they have better desks and chairs that are more comfortable, the introduction of technology like data projectors, audio and visual systems, interactive white boards, but essentially they are designed for the same traditional mode of teaching because they are: teacher-centred, lacking flexibility, having limited support for technology, ‘fixed’ in design so difficult to be adapted for any other purposes, individual focused rather than group focused. At the same time face-to-face and traditional distance approaches can...
This paper is about teaching and learning theories; their backgrounds and contemporary understand... more This paper is about teaching and learning theories; their backgrounds and contemporary understandings expressed by different experts from various countries. It also gives insight into the results of a pilot research of Latvian teachers practitioners about their perceptions, thoughts and ideas about teaching/learning.
The aim of this paper is to discuss the changing roles and skills of a teacher in context of life... more The aim of this paper is to discuss the changing roles and skills of a teacher in context of lifelong learning. This has been accomplished by the review of the literature on management, managerial skills in business field as well as education. The results of this practical research outline teachers' understanding of managerial qualities and readiness to act as managers of teaching/learning process.
This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose r... more This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose role as professionals is also changing. Traditional approach to teaching/learning process involves the directed flow of information from a teacher as sage to students as receivers. How effective this transmission of the information has been can be tested by different tests. In OECD Background Report for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession (2012) it is stated that changes in the demand for skills have evident implications that teachers themselves need to acquire new competencies to be able to work effectively. In today's world where young generation is IT literate, routine or subject based knowledge is being digitized, teachers "need to enable people to become lifelong learners, to manage non-rule-based complex ways of thinking and complex ways of working that computers cannot take over easily" (p. 35).
Taxonomy(from Greek ‘taxis’ meaning arrangement or division and ‘nomos’ meaninglaw) is the scienc... more Taxonomy(from Greek ‘taxis’ meaning arrangement or division and ‘nomos’ meaninglaw) is the science of classification according to a pre-determined system. Inthis article taxonomy will be viewed as classification of thinking.Insteadof the traditional approach of directing instruction to the transmission ofknowledge and defining objectives in terms of content to be learnt,student-centred approach acknowledges what the student does. An instrument likea taxonomy can be used for planning, learning and assessment.Learningcan be categorized based on the complexity of the thought process used.Teachers apply Bloom's Taxonomy in the classroom to enhance students' knowledgeby helping them use increasingly complex reasoning. SOLO, which stands for theStructure of the Observed Learning Outcome, is essentially ahierarchy which has five stages or levels that attempts to assess the studentslearning based on the quality of their work. Theaim of the article is to study theoretically two taxon...
This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose r... more This rapidly changing world demands new skills and competencies for students and teachers whose role as professionals is also changing. Traditional approach to teaching/learning process involves the directed flow of information from a teacher as sage to students as receivers. How effective this transmission of the information has been can be tested by different tests. In OECD Background Report for the International Summit on the Teaching Profession (2012) it is stated that changes in the demand for skills have evident implications that teachers themselves need to acquire new competencies to be able to work effectively. In today’s world where young generation is IT literate, routine or subject based knowledge is being digitized, teachers “need to enable people to become lifelong learners, to manage non-rule-based complex ways of thinking and complex ways of working that computers cannot take over easily” (p. 35).
Learning is an intangible production of a tangible product and like all production processes, it ... more Learning is an intangible production of a tangible product and like all production processes, it requires someone who knows how to manage the process in order to achieve the desired result. It really has been long enough 12 years in the new century and still one can see the 25-30 students in traditional classrooms with students sitting in rows at the desks listening (or pretending to listen) to teachers and doing monotonous activities. Classrooms have improved, they have better desks and chairs that are more comfortable, the introduction of technology like data projectors, audio and visual systems, interactive white boards, but essentially they are designed for the same traditional mode of teaching because they are: teacher-centred, lacking flexibility, having limited support for technology, ‘fixed’ in design so difficult to be adapted for any other purposes, individual focused rather than group focused. At the same time face-to-face and traditional distance approaches can...
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