{"id":194,"date":"2016-08-05T16:51:54","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T23:51:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gult\/?page_id=194"},"modified":"2016-08-19T22:35:53","modified_gmt":"2016-08-20T05:35:53","slug":"personalized-unified-learning-cycle","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/gult\/personalized-unified-learning-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"4MAT Spiral Learning Framework"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bruner’s (1960) spiral approach is often used in teaching to introduce the basic concepts without worrying about deep understanding and then slowly progress towards higher order thinking (Gibbs, 2014). However, at each step the basics are reemphasized until they are mastered to improve the retention (Kolb & Kolb, 2008). After mastering a concept students spiral upward and follow the same sequence again but this time, more breadth and depth of knowledge is achieved (Kolb & Kolb, 2008).\u00a0Thus, spiral learning framework may help teachers design learning activities that may lead to in-depth understanding of the big idea emphasize Bruner (1977) \u00a0and Kolb and Kolb (2008), two renowned constructivists. “The concept of spiraling-systematic revisiting of the same material with increasingly broader and deeper explanations and practice-has been with us a long time but little has been done to apply it” says Martin (1978). Thus, in this workshop we tried to use\u00a0spiral approach<\/strong>\u00a0with 4mat instructional cycle<\/strong><\/a>, as during our compare and contrast with other instructional cycles, we found that this cycle has almost all the components that may help teachers design classroom constructively (Kolb & Kolb,\u00a0 2008).<\/div>\n
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To know more about 4MAT instructional cycle please read the document given below-<\/p>\n

4mation Instructional Design<\/a><\/p>\n