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THESE TIPS ARE FOR TEACHIN' KIDS!
1. Environment suited to child's needs.
2. Environment must reflect a sense of order.
3. Each activity builds a relationship with a future activity.
4. The child is the center of focus, not the teacher.
5. Isolate the difficulty when the child is learning.
6. Children should repeat an activity until they are satisfied it is learned
7. Learning must be individualized.
8. Each child must progress at his/her rate.
9. Learning will occur best when the learner is self-motivated.
10. Reinforcement always increases the probability of a response.
11. Negative reinforcement increases escape and avoidance behavior.
12. A response must be reinforced every time it occurs to ensure learning.
13. Practice must be meaningful to ensure learning.
14. Practice or repetition is the key to helping a learner achieve an automatic
response.
15. Feedback is essential for effective practice.
16. Effective feedback is skill related.
17. Motivation is based on psychological drives.
18. Internal motivation builds self-esteem.
19. Goals need to be challenging and attainable.
20. Goal attainment should be clear to the learner.
21. Competition creates stress and anxiety.
22. Self-competition is emphasized.
23. Improvement is most dramatic at the early stages of learning.
24. Learning is skill specific.
25. Children instructors rely on imitation techniques.
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