Posts: 1,569. At what age did your LO start to hold things? I've tried to get Louis to hold a stage one soother for his teething pain, it's made for little hands and designed to be easy for them to hold but he really doesn't get it at all?? Still to early? Jul 13th, 2008, 14:10 PM.
The Learning and Teaching Environment. Teaching and Learning ``meet'' in the teaching and learning environment. Building a good learning environment means taking into account both the psychologist's and the instructionalist's perspectives. Advanced Research on Learning Environments (mostly in the field of artificial intelligence and education, see [Wenger, 1987]) can give us some insights on how to build a good learning and teaching environment.
Traditional Teaching. Traditional teaching is concerned with the teacher being the controller of the learning environment. Power and responsibility are held by the teacher and they play the role of instructor (in the form of lectures) and decision maker (in regards to cirriculum content and specific outcomes). They regard students as having 'knowledge holes' that need to be filled with information. In short, the traditional teacher views that it is the teacher that causes learning to occur (Novak, 1998) Learning is cheifly associated within the classroom and is often competitive. The lesson's content and delivery are considered to be most important and students master knowledge through drill and practice (such as rote learning).