Connecting Learning

and Teaching

OVERVIEW

Is there any one right way to learn? As this topic points out, there are many ways for someone to

learn. However, no matter how well a person teaches, he or she cannot make a student learn.

We all learn cognitively, affectively, and behaviorally. Utilizing these three methods and naming

the ways the learning will be observed is part of the focus of this topic.

OBJECTIVES

1. To help develop a variety of definitions of what is meant by learning.

2. To identify the cognitive, affective, and behavioral aspects of the learning process.

3. To show how to translate more abstract teaching objectives into student performance

objectives or learning outcomes.

AIMS

1. The participants will be able to express with a practical example how learning involves both

awareness and chance.

2. Each participant will develop a lesson plan or model for the age level he or she teaches

using all three types of learning.

3. The participants will be able to write performance-based learning objectives. Use a variety of

materials and techniquesto present the points of content and to engage the participants in the

learning activity.

Working with the Catechism

The following will help you gain a better under-

standing of the ways God continues to educate as stated

in the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

From the Catechism

"Being in the image of God the human

individual possesses the dignity of a person, who is not just something, but someone" (#357).

Read the Catechism

Read #268–#373.

Discuss the Catechism

1. How has God been revealed to you?
2. How do you reveal God to others?