Students need to be actively involved in making decisions and modifications to their learning efforts. Students need appropriate challenges, a secure environment, an opportunity to explore ideas and have fun learning. Students need to learn to ask questions, think and interact verbally. Students need to be able to construct meaning by interacting with peers, problems, issues and with materials. Learning is more effective if concepts are learned in context and related to existing knowledge.
Content needs to be relevant, integrating multiple aspects simultaneously.
Refer back to this page after examining the different learning strategies on the Learning Strategies page. How To Use the Brain Marian Diamonds The Brain . . . Dr. Marian Diamond discusses how a child's environment can influence social and intellectual development. To learn is to change. Education is a process that changes the learner.