Category: PK

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Gaining a Better Understanding of Constructivism (UBC – ETEC 530)

This was the final course in the MET program, and I am glad I waited to take this course until later in the program. After providing some grounding in epistemology, this course focused on Constructivism and its application to teaching. While I found the initial (Philosophy/Epistemology) portion of the course...

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An Introduction to Andragogy (Durham College – TEAC 1980)

My first formal exposure to teaching theory was through a college course dealing specifically with adult education. I chose this course in the hopes of gaining some background knowledge which would help me to better understand education research. I also felt that it would help me tailor my teaching to...

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Personal Project: Teaching Materials Creation Checklist

The lesson plan assignment in ETEC 512 allowed me to put the materials we had been studying into practice. The assignment asked us to analyze a lesson plan from the perspective of the various learning theories covered in the course.  As I did this, two things occurred to me:  I...

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Vygotskian Website (UBC – ETEC 512)

The Vygotskian.com website was produced as part of a group assignment for the ETEC 512 Conference on Learning.  The objective was to help us and our classmates learn more about one of the theories we were studying, as well as to explore the limits and constraints of applying educational theories...