Knowldege, skills, and attitudes

By: Ivan Aguilar

KnowledgeSkills

Attitude

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Approach to teacher learning and development

As a cognitive process

As a skill

As a personal construction

As a cognitive process

This approach views teaching as a complex cognitive activity and focuses on the nature of teachers belief and thinking and how this influences their teaching and learning.

As skill learning

In this approach teaching can be broken down into discrete skills that can be mastered one at a time. The skills targeted with this approach are those identified with a model of effective teaching.

As a personal construction and reflective practiceIn this approach, self awareness and teacher’s personal interpretation is used. Reflection is viewed as the process of critical examination of experiences, a process that can lead to better understanding of one’s teaching practices and routines.

Levels of cognitive learning

Knowledge

Analysis

Application

Comprehension

Evaluation

You can still hate your new invention!

Levels of skill learning

Application

Acquisition

Exposure

Automatic use

If you don’t use it frequently, it’ll get rusty.

You might do things automatically without

understanding its componentes

Levels of affective learning

Receiving

Organizing

Valuing

Responding

Internalizing

You can truly love your job, and still not have concepts

and skills to perform it well

Concepts• Receiving• Responding• Valuing• Organizing• Internalizing

Attitudes are not observable except in its highest level. It should be consistent and automatic*

Example of the development of an attitude to a new teaching technique

1. Presentation of a new teaching technique2. Responding (internally) to the new teaching technique.3. Valuing (internally) attaches some value to the new teaching

technique.4. Organization compares (internally/externally??)the valued

attached to the new teaching technique to other valuable teaching techniques. Prioritizes the new teaching technique over others.

5. Internalizes, integrates the value attached to the new teaching technique to his/her own system of values. Uses the technique (shows behavior) in a consistent and predictable manner.

Task• How does the development of a positive attitude to eating

healthier happens?• How would you evaluate it?