![]() Thus, make the lesson complete. Present it clearly, simply and always be ready for students' clarifications. If students find a math algorithm confusing because a certain question is left unanswered or a step isn't clear, they will tend to concentrate on that confused part of the process rather than the total process as a whole. When a concept or topic is incomplete thus isn't "closed", incomplete information may make learners want to discover what’s missing, rather than concentrating on the given instruction. This is the reason why lessons are grouped into units: Unit I is for human body, Unit II is for energy and motion, so on and so forth. Similar lessons or contents should be grouped together to make learners develop understanding more efficiently and effectively. Imagine teaching addition then jumping directly to polygons. This is the reason why subtraction is taught after addition, multiplication after subtraction then division after multiplication. Related concepts or lessons should be taught aligned or closely to each other. Now you know that Gestalt principles are not just mere principles of visual drawings or illustrations. These are implications of the Gestalt principles in the teaching and learning process. Hence, teachers must make use of discovery approach in learning. Teachers can use experiments, laboratory and inquiry-based strategies. ![]() This takes place when learners forms relationships of the elements around them then integrates and organizes these elements to form insight (Remember Sultan?). Gestalt psychology is a proponent of discovery or insight learning. ![]() This can be realized through teacher development programs, trainings or seminars.ģ. Teacher behavior is a critical factor, and if necessary, should be changed in order to maintain good relationship between the teacher and his/her students, and relationship among and between students. This can be done when teachers maintain an emotionally harmonious and non threatening atmosphere during the teaching and learning process which consequently caters exchange of ideas and learning. In relation to above application, the fulfillment of the cognitive-affective integration is not only limited to instruction rather also related to the experiences of the students inside the classroom. As teachers, we can actually do this by setting the objectives that does not only focus on the cognitive (and psychomotor) domains of teaching and learning but also on the affective domain as well.Ģ. And for this, Gestalt psychology proposes education to be an integration of affective and cognitive domains of learning. The word Gestalt itself is almost synonymous to the word "whole". And now without further ado, here are the applications of Gestalt theory to the teaching and learning process.ġ. ![]() I don't know what to do with the work that I need to accomplish.And I don't know why but there is something telling me to update this blog. ![]()
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