BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING

BASIC PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING

1. LEARNING AS AN ASSOCIATION PROCESS.

The oldest and most common method of studying the process of learning is through a study of the association of ideas, stimuli, and responses.

2. LEARNING IS AN ACTIVE OR DYNAMIC PROCESS.

Learning takes place only through self-activity.

3. LEARNING IS A PROCESS OF INTEGRATION.

Learning is best when integration occurs in the learning process.

4. LEARNING IS A PROCESS OF GROWTH AND NOT APART FROM DEVELOPMENT.

Learning is one kind of growth which results from experience and maturation.

5. LEARNING IS GOAL-SEEKING OR PURPOSEFUL.

Purposeful learning is more rapid and effective.

6. LEARNING IS CREATIVE.

Learning is effective when the child is free to create his own responses to the situation he faces.

7. LEARNING IS A PROCESS OF DISCOVERING AND EXPLORING.

Learning achieves effective results by a process of exploration and discovering.

8. LEARNING IS UNDERSTANDING.

The process of learning is always an attempt to solve problems by grasping relationship, or by understanding.

9. LEARNING IS A SOCIAL PROCESS, INTEGRATING SELF WITH ENVIRONMENT.

Learning it is made a social process, integrating self with environment.

10. LEARNING IS TRANSFERABLE.

Transfer is always the hope and invention of learning.


11. LEARNING DEPENDS ON CONTEXT.

The context of learning is the setting of learning materials in which it goes on.

12. LEARNING IS A COOPERATIVE PROCESS.

It is a condition of good learning that pupils or students be given more opportunity in planning and organizing their own school programs under the direction and guidance of the teacher.

13. LEARNING IS CONDITIONED BY THE PERSONALITY OF THE TEACHER.

An individual learns best with the sympathetic teacher who knows and understands him as a growing personality.

14. LEARNING A PROCESS OF CHANGE.

The definition of learning as being reflected in a change in behavior as the result of experience.

SELF-ACTIVITY, the BASIS OF ALL LEARNING

SELF-ACTIVITY – is a requirement of all learning and of all mental, physical, emotional, and social growth and development.
SPEED, PRECISION and PERMANENCE of learning will be enhanced in proportion to the amount of activity aroused in the process.
This implies that the LEARNERS must:
Be active and must participate in as many ways as possible in the learning activity.
Think and express himself as often as possible.
The teacher should:
Expand pupil activity through field trips, excursions, and visit to courts or business and industries.
Determine the different activities essential to the attainment of the goals or objectives of the classroom experiences and then to supply the conditions best adapted to bringing about the desired self-activity on the part of the student.
Take into consideration the associate and concomitant outcomes likely to result also from the classroom activities.