Meaningful learning is quite different from discovering learning though they all inherit from Piaget's theory. David Ausubel stressed the importance of advance organizer 前導組織 as one intended to grasp new concept during learning. It is teacher's job to describe and organize teaching materials for students to learn, rather than pervide guiding route for students to discover. Meaningful learning asks teacher to be more effective and efficient and it helps mediocre students to catch up their study. This teaching method is also called the old style instruction that teacher instruct in the beginning of the class than students are asked to answer the following questions.As far as I am concerning, the meaningful learning is no doubt a great approach. However, teacher shouldn't imply only one method because students tend to vary as human's natural characteristics. In my opinion, it is proper for teacher to switch on discovering learning when the class becomes passive and conservative.
Paul,
回覆刪除I do belive the organization of the teaching materials that teachers prepare for the class is crucial to how students absorb them. A interesting saysing is that learners tend to develop new knowledge by refering to his previous one. Providing learners organized and several-time-repeated material can help learners not only learn new knowledge but review the learned but not familiar one. how do you think about this?
by the way, I don't quite understand this sentence written by you. could you please tell me more about this?
"It is teacher's job to describe and organize teaching materials for students to learn, rather than pervide guiding route for students to discover."
In this fast pace modern society, I observed many teachers coming to classdroom without careful preparation. They tend to ask students to read pages or please discover by yourself, etc. As quoted by the previous sentence, I thought they didn't get their jobs done as it should be. Sorry, if it looks confused. By the way, maybe you can correct my writing.^_*
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