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(6600-T) The Seven Laws of Teaching


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    Law 1 - Law of the Teacher

    • The teacher must know that which he/she would teach.
    • “Truth must be clearly understood before it can be vividly felt.”
    • Prepare with fresh study.
    • Find analogies and relations.
    • Have clear speech and path forward.

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    Law 2 - Law of the Learner

    • The learner must attend with interest to the material to be learned.
    • “One may as well talk to the deaf or to the dead as attempt to teach a child who is wholly inattentive.”
    • Passive attention: easily distractible
    • Active attention: very effortful
    • Secondary passive: “flow”

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    Law 3 - Law of the Language

    • The language used in teaching must be common to teacher and learner.
    • “It is as necessary for the teacher to understand the child as for the child to understand the teacher.”
    • “The pupil himself must do much of the talking.”
    • Narration, narration, narration.
    • Ensure clear communication.

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    Law 4 - Law of the Lesson

    • The truth to be taught must be learned through truth already known.
    • “It is a serious error to keep the studies of pupils too long on familiar ground under the assumed necessity for thoroughness.”
    • Connect lesson to child’s experience.
    • Relate every lesson to previous lessons.
    • Have them make the illustrations.

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    Law 5 - Law of the Teaching Process

    • Excite and direct the self-activities of the pupil.
    • “The lesson that does not culminate in fresh questions ends wrong.”
    • Draw on interest by problem-solving.
    • Awaken inquiry through questions.
    • Tell him nothing he can learn himself.

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    Law 6 - Law of the Learning Process

    • The pupil must reproduce in his own mind the truth to be learned.
    • “It is indispensable that the student should become an investigator."
    • Rote memory alone isn’t learning.
    • Putting ideas into words is learning.
    • Until application is made, knowledge is fruitless.

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    Law 7 - Law of Review

    • The completion, test, and confirmation of the work of teaching must be made by review and application.
    • “No time in teaching is spent more profitably than that spent in ready and useful
      reviewing.”
    • Review perfects knowledge.
    • Review confirms knowledge.
    • Review renders it ready and useful.

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