Best Education Practice: Individual RSS Feed

See below for: research findings about outreach with an individual.

For the Individual, the learning experience:

  • Provides opportunities for extended effort and practice.
  • Promotes active engagement and real world problem solving.
  • Enables the learner to link new knowledge to their existing knowledge in meaningful ways.
  • Presents a new behavior or skill by • Demonstrating its similarity to a current behavior or skill. • Relating the new behavior to current social practices. • Demonstrating ease of adoption in terms of time, effort and money.
  • Builds thinking and reasoning skills – analysis, synthesis, evaluation, and problem solving – that learners can use to construct and apply their knowledge.
  • Provides a nurturing context for learning, with attention to • Cultural or group background and influences • The physical environment • The use of tools or practices appropriate to learner skills and abilities.
  • Relates to personal interests and provides for personal choice and control. (the learning experience is “learner centered”)
  • Has a clear purpose with tightly focused outcomes and objectives
  • Allows a learner to interact and collaborate with others on instructional tasks.
  • Can be adapted to individual differences in learning strategies and approaches.
  • Encourages the learner to set meaningful learning goals and to take personal responsibility for their own learning.
  •  Relates to the individual’s level of physical, intellectual, emotional, and social development.
  • Builds on positive emotions, curiosity, enjoyment, and interest.
  • Assesses the learner in order to set appropriately high and challengings standards.

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Ribaudo, M. O., & Horan, R. D. (1999) Finding 1

Look to these conditions for opportunities to provide education that is more likely to be effective:

  • Actions that improve water quality also increase profitability
  • The producers’ own water quality is at stake
  • The on-farm cost of water quality impairments are shown to be sufficiently large
  • Education is accompanied by training for management skills of immediate need to the producer

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Lawrence, T. & T. Koontz. (2004) Finding 1

Before designing training, survey local officials to learn if they:

  • Have a good understanding of their communities’ storm water management plan.
  • Feel they have sufficient information to make informed decisions about storm water management.
  • See a role for local watershed groups in water quality monitoring, stormwater management planning, plan implementation, and compliance monitoring or environmental stewardship.

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