How do we teach in Go My Code?

In Go My Code, we use Jerome Bruner’s approche for a personalized learning experience.

The student is no longer a passive receiver of informations.

Our instructors get aware of the developmental state of each of the students in their care, and should provide scaffolding that is appropriate.

What’s scaffolding learning ?

To gain a better understanding of scaffolding, consider the analogy of a child learning to walk.

First, a parent holds the child up. His feet barely touch the floor as he mimics walking. Slowly, the child is allowed to support more and more of his own weight. Next, he might support himself by holding on to an object like a coffee table while his parents watch.Finally, the child is ready to take steps, though his parent’s hand might still be just inches away.

Soon enough, the child is walking , and running on his own.

Like the parents in this example,to teach coding we do the same, our instructors teaching new tasks initially have complete control and support their students fully. Gradually, when the students are ready, support is withdrawn until the students are able to build their own projects !

Methods:

In psychology it was proven that rare events are more common than the bell shaped curve ( normal distributions) predicts. That means that we as humans are different, we don’t learn using the same methodes or the same pace .

In Go My Code we are avoiding the passive conventional teaching methods. For an optimized learning experience it’s prooven that alternating learning methods is the best way to gain students attention and also keep theme motivated !

Multisensory learning/teaching

Multisensory teaching isn’t just limited to reading and listening. Instead, it tries using multiple senses to give students more ways to connect with what they’re learning.

This type of hands-on learning can make it easier for students to:

▪Collect information.

▪Make connections between new information and what they already know.

▪Understand and work through problems.

▪Use nonverbal problem-solving skills.

Peer assassement

Letting students collaborate in groups based on their common strengths and weaknesses and providing one-on-one support to those who needed extra motivation.

Avoid the fishing for compliments/ rewards methods. The real award a student gets is a high quality learning experience that prepares him for the real life challenges and gets him new opportunities !

A scientific approach to Education

Bloom’s Taxonomy was created in 1956 under the leadership of educational psychologist Dr Benjamin Bloom in order to promote higher forms of thinking in education, such as analyzing and evaluating concepts, processes, procedures, and principles, rather than just remembering facts (rote learning).

Remembering: Recall or retrieve previous learned information.

Understanding: Comprehending the meaning, translation, interpolation, and interpretation of instructions and problems. State a problem in one’s own words.

Applying: Use a concept in a new situation or unprompted use of an abstraction. Applies what was learned in the classroom into novel situations in the work place.

Analyzing: Separates material or concepts into component parts so that its organizational structure may be understood. Distinguishes between facts and inferences.

Evaluating: Make judgments about the value of ideas or materials.

Creating: Builds a structure or pattern from diverse elements. Put parts together to form a whole, with emphasis on creating a new meaning or structure.

The categories can be thought of as degrees of difficulties. That is, the first ones must normally be mastered before the next one can take place.

So to englobe the link between bloom’s taxonomy , and the brain (to know more about it https://medium.com/gomycode/cognitive-learning-15abb9dac113 ) without getting into boring details :

The memory is highly linked to emotions and the volitional control is their knight !

Thanks for reading the article. I am Wafa Hawes, psychology expert and intern at @GoMyCode AI & R&D Department. If you are interested in psychology & Education, feel free to reach us on contact@gomycode.tn.