Task #3

Task #3
1. What is the relationship, if any, between affective learning and positive discipline?
2. Shouldn't all teaching be affective by nature?
3. Aren't many teachers affective but they just don't know about it?
4. Is affective learning exactly the same as humanistic learning or are there any differences?
5. Is affective learning included in the curriculum in any country?
6. Is affective learning as we know it only applied to teach a foreign language?
7. How would an affective teacher best deal with a teenager who rejects English altogether ---as I have found during my practicum?
8. What are the best ways to carry out proper differentiation with slow and fast finishers according to affective learning?
9. Should there always be evaluation in affective learning?
10. In compulsory education, would an affective learner fail his/her students or envisage doing without the pass/fail system?.

Comments

  1. Juan UribeMay 9, 2016 at 1:36 PM

    Hey Silvia,

    Love your questions! Here are some answers:
    All teaching should definitely be affective by nature.
    Positive discipline is a way of making affective learning happen. We can be affective without knowing, but knowing makes us much more purposeful in the way we do things in the classroom.

    I would say that affective learning and humanistic learning have a lot in common if they are not the same thing. I will check that out and come back to you.

    We are always evaluating when we are teaching and evaluating is important in the learning process. There are, however, many ways to do in affective ways. I like evaluating for learning, which is getting the results to promote discussion with students about the process.

    I believe that an affective teacher would find all possible ways a students can learn before failing him or her. Watch this movie scene I selected from Mr Holland's Opus:

    http://childrenlearningenglishaffectively.blogspot.com.br/2012/08/affective-teaching-scenes-hollands-opus.html

    I will go slowly answering everybody's questions on my blog.

    Hugs and hugs,

    Juan

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  2. Silvia Montufo UrquízarMay 10, 2016 at 9:28 AM

    I totally agree. Being aware that you are an affective teacher makes it so much more purposeful. In my case my Aha! moment was thanks to your blog;-D. Muito obrigada!

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