QTC #5

1. What are the essential skills and/or learning outcomes you want your students to know and be able to do that relate to cognitive learning?

Cognitive learning deals with higher order thinking, and from a teachers point of view this means that I need to develop lessons that address application, analysis, and synthesis of the standard being taught.  My goal as a teacher should be to design lessons that allow students to stretch their thinking past simply what the book tells them.  I also want my students to have the skill of learning and storing information in their long-term memory, and the easiest way for students to do this is is by relating new information with prior knowledge.  I want my students to be confident in their abilities to solve problems in new ways.  There is often an obvious solution to a problem, but if students think critically they have the potential to find different ways to solve a problem, whether this is a word problem, math problem, or simply a day-to-day scenario. Overall, I want my student to know and be able to remember what they have learned in my class.  I will make the objectives and activities that I plan interesting to them and applicable to their lives.  The main thing that I want to teach my students is how to think.  I believe if students can think, they can achieve anything.