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| Written by Miguel Á. Zabalza Beraza | |
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This article stresses the need of moving teaching strategies from
curricular contents to one more learning-based approach. One of the
main challenges teachers have to assume in the current conditions of
schooling is just to become supporters of the student's processes of
learning. Starting from the meaning of the learning-based teaching as a
general referent for didactics, nine factors influencing the learning
processes are analysed: personal abilities, practice, task perception
of learners, expectations, attribution, attention, context conditions,
choral learning and feed-back. The first belong to the cognitive level
and the last three to the social context of learning processes. All of
them offer important knowledge for teachers to be the central resource
for improving learning. Miguel Á. Zabalza Beraza Key words: Learning-centered teaching, learning processes, teaching, cognitive conditions for learning, social conditions for learning, didactics, learning strategies, teaching strategies, expectations, choral learning. |