Students as Learners1 Flashcards
Blooms Taxonomy
Creating-Generating new ideas, products, or ways of viewing things. (Designing playbooks)
Erik Erikson
neo-Freudian, humanistic; 8 psychosocial stages of development: theory shows how people evolve through the life span. Each stage is marked by a psychological crisis that involves confronting “Who am I?”
Jean Piaget
Cognitive Development-Students must be active learners and collaborate with others.
Schemata
How the mind categorizes incoming stimuli. Ex: Children learn that a dog, cat and bear are part of the schema called animals. Baseball, Football, Basketball are all team sports
Metacognition
thinking about how you think - this is what happens when you consider how you solved a problem.
Scaffolding
temporary support that is tailored to a learner’s needs and abilities and aimed at helping the learner master the next task in a given learning process.
Concept Mapping
an instructional strategy that requires learners to identify, graphically display, and link key concepts
Cooperative Learning
small groups of classmates work toward common goals
Direct Instruction
Teacher-centered instruction which includes lecture, presentation, and recitation. Keep it short 5 to 20 minutes.
Discovery Learning
A constructivist approach to teaching in which students are encouraged to discover principles for themselves. Mastering new information mainly as a result of the students own efforts. Ex. Student learns new informatin while completing a research paper. (Brunner)
Whole Group Discussion
Entire class participates as one large group for discussing a topic
Independent Study
student and a professor or teacher agree upon a topic for the student to further research outside of school with loose guidance from the instructor for an agreed upon amount of credits
Interdisciplinary Instruction
Traditional classrooms divide instruction into catagories (disciplines) such as “reading,” “math,” and “social studies.” Interdisciplinary teaching involves any effort on the part of an instructor to design learning activities with products and activities to relate to more that one discipline.
Inquiry Method
A system in which students solve problems or answer questions by forming tentative hypotheses then collecting and analyzing data to provide evidence for or against their hypotheses;(Brunner)
Abraham Maslow
humanistic psychologist who proposed the hierarchy of needs, with self-actualization as the ultimate psychological need.