Week 5: What is learning? How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher/trainer?

 What is learning? Learning is a process of actions, by which you can gain new skills and know this world better than before. Learning is a kind of need for me, as it can make me more capable and learn myself better.

When I was a child, I was full of curiosity to everything in my life. I adored my natural science teacher very much as she seemed to know the answers to all my questions. There by, I leaned natural science very hard and dreamed of become a person as erudite as my teacher.

I think everyone has an idol, sometimes it is not an idol, it might be a person who you admire or a person who you want to learn from, that is a goal for yourself. Just as my natural science teacher for me when I was a little girl. Students would be more positive when they learn aim at some goals. We teachers can connect what they learn to their goals so that they could be more active in learning. For instance, my cousin's idol is Rafa Nadal, a famous tennis star. I told her Rafa Nadal’s native language is Spanish, if she learns it well, she could know him better, therefore, my cousin started learning Spanish with great motivation, which she hated to learn before.

Maybe this method does not work on every student. They are so different and have different interests and goals. But when it works, it will inspire students’ passion in learning remarkably. Probably because when students like some stars or want to be someone, they would be adapt to absorb relative informantion so that their knowledge sturctures are more completed. Just like what we learned tihis week, they are adapt to learn better.