Paradigm Shift by George M Jacobs & Thomas S C Farrell

Paradigm Shift by George M Jacobs & Thomas S C Farrell

1. Eight changes

   • Learner Autonomy
     • involves learners being aware of their own ways of learning,
   • Cooperative Learning
     • collaborative learning for enhancing the value of student-student interaction
   • Curricular Integration
     • to see the links between subject areas in a holistic manner
   • Focus on meaning
     • we learn best when we connect and store information in meaningful chunks. long-term learning
   • Diversity
     • different students attach different connotations to the same event or information the mix of students we have in our classrooms in terms of backgrounds
   • Thinking Skills
     • going beyond the information given
   • Alternative Assessment
   • Teachers as co-learners

2. A means of thinking about change in education.

3. different perspective to focus on different aspects of the phenomena in our lives

4. Key Components

   • role of learners
   • learning process
   • social nature of learning
   • diversity
   • views of those internal to the classroom
   • connecting the school with the world
   • 7. Helping students to understand the purpose of learning
   • 8. A whole-to-part orientation
   • the importance of meaning
   • learning as a lifelong process