Caine Learning Center

How to Teach

Relaxed Alertness: The optimal state of mind of the learner and social/emotional conditions for the learning environment, grounded in low threat and high challenge.

Immersion of learners in complex experience: The optimal environments, including the physical context and social relationships, within which standards need to be embedded. 

The research on natural learning shows that effective teaching depends upon the integration of  three elements, and that these provide a framework for a path of professional development for educators.

Active Processing of experience: The essential, ongoing process of practice, questioning and reflection that leads to high standards as defined by performance knowledge. 

Learning to teach for deep understanding and high standards calls for a rigorous path of professional development for educators.  It involves a transition from direct instruction, where the teacher is completely in charge, to learner centered teaching, which is driven by the questions and interests of learners.

The Path of Professional Development.

The Three essential elements

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