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Is The Teaching Profession so Black & White?
BARRIERS TO LEARNING
Classroom Experience
There are many ways in which an individual or group can shut off in a learning situation. The following list suggest some examples:
- Shut off
- Learner not in the right mood
- Interpreting differently (Learning Styles)
- If not allowed to ask questions
- Cannot absorb, if information is delivered too fast
- Distortion - making up 'things', creativity or disruption
- Relating to other 'things', pre-conception
- Feeling on the outside....looking in
- Credibility of teacher/trainer/instructor/coach/lecturer/mentor
- Mistrust by trainer and trainees/pupils/candidates/clients
- Inattentiveness
- Boredom - Shut off - Too High Level - Too Low Level
Lack of relevance - Frustration of not understanding, repetition, tedium.
- Shut off
- Learner not in the right mood
- Interpreting differently (Learning Styles)
- If not allowed to ask questions
- Cannot absorb, if information is delivered too fast
- Distortion - making up 'things', creativity or disruption
- Relating to other 'things', pre-conception
- Feeling on the outside....looking in
- Credibility of teacher/trainer/instructor/coach/lecturer/mentor
- Mistrust by trainer and trainees/pupils/candidates/clients
- Inattentiveness
- Boredom - Shut off - Too High Level - Too Low Level
Lack of relevance - Frustration of not understanding, repetition, tedium.
Present or leading to:
INACTIVITY OF THE MIND
- Panic
- Self-consciousness
- Peer group pressure
- Resentment
- Not taking part (passive abuse)
- Frustration
- Physical comfort
- Time wasting...both trainer and trainee
- Not listening
- Physical and mental limitations
- Apprehension, anticipation...
- Constant oral drone
- Patronising
- The 'put down'
- Presentation of trainer and material
- Visual distraction
- Interpretation of words differing with individuals (Semantics)
- Time of day eg. Friday at 4pm
- Language barriers
- Pre-occupation
- Illness
- Self-consciousness
- Peer group pressure
- Resentment
- Not taking part (passive abuse)
- Frustration
- Physical comfort
- Time wasting...both trainer and trainee
- Not listening
- Physical and mental limitations
- Apprehension, anticipation...
- Constant oral drone
- Patronising
- The 'put down'
- Presentation of trainer and material
- Visual distraction
- Interpretation of words differing with individuals (Semantics)
- Time of day eg. Friday at 4pm
- Language barriers
- Pre-occupation
- Illness
Brehm (1966), when our freedom is threatened, we tend to react by reasserting our freedom which he called 'psychological reactance'.
Seligman (1975), 'Learned helplessness' can be very much related to stress
Seligman (1975), 'Learned helplessness' can be very much related to stress
Source: © Barrier to Learning - NGW UCE (1998)
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