There is evidence of small changes in classrooms all over the world slowly rising to represent a paradigm shift in mainstream education. The focus in education is moving towards learning, rather than emphasizing the importance of teaching. We need to know how learning happens, so that we can enhance it in the classrooms. In other words, rather than assuming that it is a teacher's job to impart wisdom to students who will somehow magically absorb it, the focus is in the teacher's ability to guide the students into building a knowledge base of their own. Working with students' need to know makes learning and teaching much more meaningful. 

Meaningful learning is built on interactions between students and teachers. The cognitive approach combined with the constructive and cooperatice practices enable effective teaching and meaningful learning.

C1 - Cognitive approach makes teaching and learning easy and effective. Viewing learning as a student-centered and dynamic process where learners are active participants, it strives to understand the reasons behind behavioural patterns.
C2 - Constructive practice emphasizes the students’ need to construct their own understanding. Delivered or transmitted knowledge does not have the same emotional and intellectual value. New learning depends on prior understanding and is interpreted in the context of current understanding, not first as isolated information that is later related to existing knowledge.
C3 – Cooperative learning engages not only the whole student in her/his learning, but also the whole class (or school, or even a district!) into the learning process. Teaching and learning become meaningful for both teacher and students, because there is no need for the power struggle in the classroom: why would a student rebel against the rules s/he has been creating? 
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 p.s.  check also my blogpost about this at Wordpress 

There is evidence of small changes in classrooms all over the world slowly rising to represent a paradigm shift in mainstream education. The focus in education is moving towards learning, rather than emphasizing the importance of teaching. We need to know how learning happens, so that we can enhance it in the classrooms. In other words, rather than assuming that it is a teacher's job to impart wisdom to students who will somehow magically absorb it, the focus is in the teacher's ability to guide the students into building a knowledge base of their own. Working with students' need to know makes learning and teaching much more meaningful. 

Meaningful learning is built on interactions between students and teachers. The cognitive approach combined with the constructive and cooperatice practices enable effective teaching and meaningful learning.

C1 - Cognitive approach makes teaching and learning easy and effective. Viewing learning as a student-centered and dynamic process where learners are active participants, it strives to understand the reasons behind behavioural patterns.
C2 - Constructive practice emphasizes the students’ need to construct their own understanding. Delivered or transmitted knowledge does not have the same emotional and intellectual value. New learning depends on prior understanding and is interpreted in the context of current understanding, not first as isolated information that is later related to existing knowledge.
C3 – Cooperative learning engages not only the whole student in her/his learning, but also the whole class (or school, or even a district!) into the learning process. Teaching and learning become meaningful for both teacher and students, because there is no need for the power struggle in the classroom: why would a student rebel against the rules s/he has been creating? 
.

 p.s.  check also my blogpost about this at Wordpress