Full Description
How teachers teach is not necessarily how learners learn. Educators focus on content delivery, but much of the learning process involves affective and behavioral factors.
Veteran educators Muriel and Duane Elmer provide a holistic model for how learning takes place. Their learning cycle moves beyond mere recall of information to helping learners value and apply learning in ways that are integrated into behavior and practice. With insights from neuroscience, educational psychology, and learning theory, they address how the brain can become more receptive, how emotional environments affect learning, and how learning tasks and experiential exercises can help foster the development of skills and habit formation. They do so in the context of a thoroughly Christian framework that emphasizes not just knowledge, but character, integrity, and wisdom.
Learning can be accomplished in and beyond the classroom to move from content mastery to life experience. Here are sound avenues for helping your students become the lifelong learners God intends.
Contents
Acknowledgments
1. Laying the Foundation
2. Weaving Truth and Life
LEVEL 1: RECALL—I Remember the Information
3. Recall, Rehearsal, and Retention
4. Lectures that Transform
LEVEL 2: RECALL with APPRECIATION—I Value the Information
5. The Role of Emotion in Learning
LEVEL 3: RECALL with SPECULATION—I Ponder How to Use Information
6. From Content to Experience
7. The Power of Cognitive Dissonance
BARRIERS to CHANGE
8. Identifying Barriers
9. Overcoming Barriers
LEVEL 4: RECALL with PRACTICE—I Begin Changing My Behavior
10. Transformative Learning
11. Learning Tasks Leading to Practice
LEVEL 5: RECALL with HABIT—I Do Consistently
12. Building a Habit
13. Sustaining a Habit
THE LEARNING CYCLE
14. From Habit to Character
Notes
Bibliography
Author and Subject Index
Scripture Index
