Day 3 - afternoon

How do my students learn best?

I've taught two distinct groups of students - Adults and children. Of course, it varies according to the indivdual students, but I can relate some of my assumptions about how I best help students learn.

My primary school children in Taiwan loved to sing, dance and act out stories. Because they loved it, does that mean that they learned the most? or was it a good way to make the time go faster... dunno. But I can say that they were engaged and the conditions were right for learning to happen. I believe that a teacher's job is to create the conditions for learning - a Teacher can 't make a student learn.

My Adults who I tutor one-to-one and at night school learn differently. I believe they like to do something that is 'real' to them - a project or a problem. They need to see the context and don't like far transfer. When teaching an adult, it's hard to focus them on the fundamental (learning HTML code, zum beispiel) when they really just want to make a webpage.