Week One

Out of the two articles I really enjoyed reading the Principles of Teaching and Learning. This article sums up a lot of the important information that I learned throughout college. The format is also exceptional being that all major ideas are summed up into 7 points for teaching skills and into 8 points for learning skills. These ideas include the topics of motivation, prior knowledge, organization and engagement. These are all important skills that both the teacher and the students need to learn. The more practice each has with these skills the better they will become. This is beneficial to the facilitator because he/she can use these tools effectively to engage students into the curriculum while the student can use these same skills to evaluate themselves which will in turn make them more efficient learners.