4MAT Teaching System Model and Itâs Applications to (original) (raw)
2003, DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Inherent in the 4MAT system are two major premises: (1) people have major learning styles and hemispheric (right-mode/left-mode) processing preferences; and (2) designing and using multiple instructional strategies in a systematic framework to teach to these preferences can improve teaching and learning. As a learner-focused model for adapting curriculum and instruction to the diverse needs of students, 4MAT benefits teachers by giving them a framework to design learning activities in a systematic cycle. By examining the primary characteristics in each quadrant of the cycle, the role shifts of teachers and learners become apparent. Each quqdrant has a different emphasis. Quadrant One's emphasis is on meaning, or how the material to be learned is connected to learners' immediate lives. Quadrant Two's emphasis is on content and curriculum and the importance of delivering instruction through an integrated approach. Quadrant Three addresses the usefulness of learning in the lives of the learners both in and out of school-it emphasizes the transfererability of learning. Quadrant Four encompasses creativity, how the learner adds to the original learning in new and unique ways. Environmental education is the process of recognising values and clarifying concepts in order to develop skills and attitudes necessary to understand and appreciate the interrelatedness among man, his culture and his biophysical surroundings. Environmental education also entails practice in decision making and self-formulation of a code of behavior about issues concerning environmental quality. Environmental education is based on as much first-hand experience as possible so that the idea of moving out of the confines of the traditional classroom is one well rooted in the environmental approach. Good environmental education, like any good education, must lead pupils and students out and on from their immediate perceptions and experience to a wider understanding. It must develop their capacity to go beyond the anectodal and the particular. None of that happens by cahance. A number of subjects and aspects of the school curriculum deal with matters to do with the interplay between man and his environment. The importance of environmental education is that it sensitises us to the causes and effects of problems of which, for too long, we have been only dimly aware.
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