Following the latest research to promote lifelong learning
Being updated with results from latest research promotes lifelong learning
Embracing a Lifelong Learner Mindset
Teaching and learning are two sides of a coin. Professional teachers have to be updated with recent teaching strategies that not only help them teach the curriculum to their students but provide them with all the required skills to be able to follow the rapidly changing world everywhere. The Science of Learning depends on results from recent research in multiple fields, such as cognitive psychology and educational neuroscience, to aid in understanding how learning happens, thus figuring out which strategies are better used to teach the students and guiding them throughout their learning process. Teachers can use the proper strategies to act as the spark that ignites the light of learning. Learning shouldn’t be happening only in schools. But it should be taking place everywhere and all the time. Teachers can play a major role in promoting this lifelong learning. They need to know some basic principles from the Mind, Brain, and Education Science to use them to plan for their lessons to maximize the learning outcome and change the mindset of their learners to increase their intrinsic motivation. Understanding that the brain is a plastic organ and is changing throughout everyone’s life is one of the principles that’ll push the teachers to believe in their students and guide them to learn everything while having high expectations for them. Moreover, teachers can facilitate metacognition to support students to think about their own learning till they’re able to take control over their own learning process and eventually becoming lifelong learners.
Promoting lifelong learning is an additional role for the teachers nowadays as they help their students during their learning journey to not only pass their exams with excellent grades but to master the content of the curriculum and transfer what they’re learning to suit their experiences and expand their knowledge.
Teaching in international schools, finishing training programs about teaching and learning, studying MBE Science and having my own course ‘Deeper Learning’ are all experiences I’d like to share. Basma ElZeiny
