Written by Kristy Segal
As a GK-12 fellow, you will be teaching a classroom of students even though you may not have any teaching experience. Teaching can be a daunting task, and may be more complicated than you are aware. This website is designed to give you a useful background in teaching theory and practices that can be applied to your project.
The information presented here is compiled from the text How People Learn, a comprehensive book that details recent learning research and its implications. Much of the book deals with research on the human brain the fundamentals of human capability for learning, although the focus is towards implications of this research for classroom learning. This website contains only the information that is relevant the GK-12 program in a greatly condensed format. For more information, or discussion of the specific research, the citation for How People Learn is at the bottom of this page.
