LINKING THEORY AND PRACTICE: TRADITIONAL LEARNING THEORIES
Overview
By completing this assignment, you will explore your personal orientation to teaching and learning. You will identify this orientation with traditional learning theories and clarify it by imagining learning tasks aligned to it.
Instructions
Start by completing this week’s Interactive Learning Module: Connecting Traditional Learning Theories to Practice, if you have not yet done so. In this activity, you will make choices within specific situations and will be shown how your choices align with traditional learning theories. You will also reflect on your results and propose learning tasks for each of the scenarios.
Use the results of the activity to frame your approach to this assignment. You may wish to download your results and the transcript for the activity to reference as you complete the assignment.
For your assignment, write at least one well-developed paragraph for each of the categories of learning activities presented in the Connecting Traditional Learning Theories to Practice module, identifying and explaining your choices and the representative learning tasks you imagined. Also, in these paragraphs, identify your orientation to learning theory and what you understand that orientation to mean. Include an introduction and conclusion in your paper.
Additional Requirements
References: Support your assertions with references to current, scholarly resources. You may use your texts as additional references.
Written communication: Written communication is free of errors that detract from the overall message.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style and formatting guidelines. See Evidence and APA.
Length: 2–3 typed, double-spaced pages.
Font and font size: Times New Roman, 12 point.
