"The advantage of teaching in a more integrated way is that the curriculum is covered several times during the year and in a variety of contexts. Students learn and are assessed over longer periods of time; often with a better retention of the concepts studied and are likely more able to attach meaning to the material studied. The crux of the philosophy is meaning. Individual student meaning is facilitated when students are motivated - this can be enhanced by choice. Choice reduces stress because it gives the students a sense of control and often provides a personalized learning program with appropriate levels of challenge."
"Learning is not so much an additive
process, with new learning simply piling up on
top of existing knowledge, as it is an active,
dynamic process in which the connections are
constantly changing and the structure
reformatted."
K. Patricia Cross
It's not what is poured into a student that
counts, but what is planted.
Linda Conway
The task of the excellent teacher is to stimulate
"aparently ordinary" people to unusual
effort. The tough proplem is not in identifying
winners: it is in making winners out of ordinary
people.
K. Patricia Cross