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Date: Tue, 18 Mar 1997 04:34:30 -0600
From: Mervin Koehlinger <tchkoehlimw@CRF.CUIS.EDU>
Subject: A Model of Learning

Friends,

The March 1997 issue of the Journal of Chemical Education has an
article entitled "Chemistry Teaching--Science or Alchemy". It presents
a constructivist (if I'm allowed to use that word) model of learning,
including what the author calls the Ten Educational Commandments:

1. What you learn is controlled by what you already know and understand.
2. How you learn is controlled by how you have learned successfully in
the past.
3. If learning is to be meaningful, it has to link onto existing
knowledge and skills, enriching and extending both.
4. The amount of material to be processed in unit time is limited.
5. Feedback and reassurance are necessary for comfortable learning, and
assessment should be humane.
6. Cognizance should be taken of learning styles and motivation.
7. Students should consolidate their learning by asking themselves about
what is going on in their own heads.
8. There should be room for problem solving in its fullest sense to
exercise and strengthen linkages.
9. There should be room to create, defend, try out, and hypothesize.
10. There should be opportunity given to teach (you don't really learn
till you teach).

Does any of this sound familiar? You might want to read the entire
article.
Mervin
Mervin Koehlinger, Physics Instructor
Concordia Lutheran High School, Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805
219.483.1102