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Date Posted: 05:25:15 09/23/04 Thu
Author: Aparecida S.Silva
Subject: Re: Task 2- comments on Patricia's
In reply to: Patrícia Médice 's message, "Re: Task 2" on 04:46:13 09/20/04 Mon

>Learning Strategies
>
>The act of learning is a difficult thing (TASK0 but so funny (TOO GENERAL/TOO EVASIVE),
>when we can understand exactly what it was taught. In
>spite of the hard work and much patience which we
>spend learning new things(ISSUES)whatever the topic (IS),
>certainly we improve more and more as in the logical
>capacity as in our personality.
>
>The success of learning something(SOMETIMES ??) depends on, first of
>all, our wish to do it. Moreover, we have to choose
>the educational institution where we can find an
>appropriated teaching model to our learning. But it is
>almost impossible because the majority of schools in
>the whole world haven’t been worried about the
>personal differences between their students like (SUCH AS)
>different cultures and religions(RELIGION), different ways (OF)how
>each one was educated by his or her parents and,
>mainly the different ways of learning. In general, the
>syllabuses of these institutions are always similar,
>if not totally equal to each other. Although (HOWEVER),
>according to Pat Burke Guild this situation is (HAS)changed:
>
>“The personal and professional experiences of
>educators provide constant evidence that style
>differences exist and that they affect many aspects of
>learning and teaching each day.”
>
>So, the researchers have developed the studies about
>what the character education is better as to learn as
>to teach. These studies talk about the two kinds of
>teaching model: the uniformity way and the diversity
>way.
>
>The first one, like we said in the beginning, has been
>used in the majority educational institutions where
>the students have learned the same thing in the same
>way like in the olden(OLD )times, the syllabuses haven’t
>changed for a long time. So the impression that we
>have is the time stopped, because the materials (WHICH)have
>been used are the same all the time, they haven’t
>updated by the educators. Remembering that the
>personal differences haven’t been taking into account,
>so the people have to adapt themselves to this
>educational method.
>
>And finally, the diversity-teaching model is a
>recently studied topic because the needs of finding an
>alternative method that reply(REPLACE)the present one. But the
>researchers have had some problems: the values and the
>all knowledge developed during these years. How can we
>change the method education without missing them? Like
>said Pat Burke Guild: 9ACCORDING TO PAT BURKE)
>“The need to address the balance between uniformity
>and diversity is urgent because the current imbalance
>is consistently damaging to many learners and
>teachers.
>
> The emphasis on uniformity is a serious
>disadvantage for students whose culture has taught
>them behaviors and beliefs that are different from the
>norms of the majority culture most often emphasized in
>schools.”
>So, the educational institution, which uses this new
>teaching method, has to be careful because it must
>create a syllabus, which keep the important things of
>the present method and encourage the educators “to
>develop a deep understanding of individual differences
>in learning”. (GUILD, 2004)
>
>While the uniformity-teaching model is being used,
>many people prefer to keep in this conservative
>situation instead of looking for other educational
>institution, which has an education model appropriated
>to their needs. Even though we have difficult to find
>this place, we can’t give-up and keep looking for,
>because certainly it will be worthwhile.

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  • Re: Task 2 -COMMENTS ON PRATICIA'S (2) -- Aparecida S.SIlva, 05:44:03 09/23/04 Thu
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