Getting Started | Background Information | Reference Material
Reference Material in the form of subject dictionaries, encyclopedias, and handbooks typically provide background essays, definitions, broad overviews of various topics, or other pertinent facts. Online reference material can be searched via collections like Sage eReference.
Conduct an online search for two (2) current, peer-reviewed articles related to learning theory. You may select articles from a variety of areas that impact learning. These may include the following:
- Brain-based learning (see Brain-Friendly Teaching book)
- Culturally Responsive Teaching (e.g., teaching diverse learners)
- Authentic Assessment (e.g., portfolios, on-going assessment, anecdotal records, kidwatching)
- Social learning theory (e.g., cooperative learning, community building, etc.)
- Motivation Theory (e.g., goal setting, self-regulation, etc.)
- Curriculum Practices/Teaching Strategies that may optimize learning: Multiple Intelligences/Multimodal teaching
- Inquiry learning/Discovery learning
- Role playing/Simulations
- Directed teaching
- Guided instruction (guided reading/math)
- Differentiated instruction
Student Topics:
Behavioral learning theory Goal setting
COVID and the achievement gap
Implications of COVID on students’ social skills
COVID and social-emotional development
Virtual learning and student agency
Cooperative learning
Play pedagogy (pre-k)
