Facilitating Learner-Centered Learning

• this is an inner drive that causes you to do something and persevere at something - motivation
• this is the ability to establish and maintain healthy and meaningful relationships - relationship skills
• the motivation that comes from within the person himself/herself or the activity itself - intrinsic motivation
• the motivation that comes from someone or something outside himself/herself - extrinsic motivation
• an intentional process of solving problems and discovering opportunities. it espouses the use of creativity in coming up with solutions which are not only novel but practical as well - Creative Problem Solving (CPS)
• extroversion - a personality type characterized by traits such as sociability, assertiveness, cheefulness
• introversion - a personality type characterized by traits such as reserve, passivity, and a preference to keep emotional states private
• refers to the production of a great number of ideas or alternate solution to a problem - fluency
• refer to what an individual can do - ability
• the ability to take the perspective of and empathize with others - social awareness
• ability to regulate your emotions and behavior - self-management
• a by-product of the social interactions between and among teachers and students - classroom climate
• defined as the sum tota of one's surrounding - environment
• Transfer of learning refers to applying knowledge, skills, or strategies learned in one context to another
• Happens when learning in one context hinders learning in another - negative transfer
• Occurs when learning in one situation enhances learning in another - positive transfer
• Involves applying learned skills or knowledge to similar contexts or tasks - near transfer
•  Involves applying skills or knowledge to different, often unrelated contexts - far transfer
• based on Maslow's hierarchy of needs, unsatisfied need is a strong motivation
• self-actualization is becoming all that one is capable of becoming
• attribution theory - explains that we attribute our success or failures or other events to several factors
• children who are 2 years of age are labelled as "terrible twos" by Erik Erikson because of their assertiveness and will illustrated by "No!"
• refers to the production of ideas that show a variety of possibilities or realms of thought - flexibility
• advanced organizers - David Ausubel
• Subsumption Theory - David Ausubel
• involves the production of ideas that are unique or unusual - originality
• process of enhancing ideas by providing more details - elaboration
• gestalt principles - describe how we interpret and process complex stimuli around us
• gestalt psychology - a school of thought that looks at the human mind and behavior as a whole
• states that the most general ideas of a subject should be presented first and then progressively differentiated in terms of detail and specificity - Progressive differentiation
• Social Learning Theory - Albert Bandura
• Insight learning theory - Wolfgang Kohler
• Father of Pedagogy - Johan Heinrich Pestalozzi
• "'Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death" - Erik Erikson
• "The mind is like an iceberg, it floats with one-seventh of its bulk above water." - Sigmund Freud
• How is Erikson's epigenetic principle of unfolding of personality as it is applicable to learners best described by other experts?

  Like a rose bud
• "I wonder what sort of person I really am?" - Identity
• puberty stage - transition from childhood to adulthood
• The Patron Saint of Teachers - Jean Baptist de la Salle
• Vicarious learning - learning by observing someone else's behavior or the consequences of that behavoir