Terms-Student Development Flashcards
A person’s ability to think about his or her own thinking. Metacognition (meta=between; cognition=thinking) requires self-awareness and self-regulation of thinking. A student who demonstrates a high level of metacognition is able to explain his or her own thinking and describe which strategies he orshe uses to read or to solve a problem.
Metacognition
A tendency for a person to be a passive learner who is dependent on others for guidance and decision-making.
Learned Helplessness
A concept in the mind about events, scenarios, actions, or objects that have been acquired from past experience. The mind loves organization and must find previous events or experiences with which to associate the information, or the information may not be learned.
Schema
A context within which a student’s more basic needs (such as sleep, safet, and love) are met and the student is cognitively ready for developmentally appropriate problem-solving and learning
Readiness to learn
Metacognition
A person’s ability to think about his or her own thinking. Metacognition (meta=between; cognition=thinking) requires self-awareness and self-regulation of thinking. A student who demonstrates a high level of metacognition is able to explain his or her own thinking and describe which strategies he orshe uses to read or to solve a problem.
Transfer
The ability to apply a lesson learned in one situation to a new situation - for example, a student who has learned to read the word the in a book about cows and then goes home and reads the word the successfully in a note that a parent left on the counter.
Intrinsic Motivation
Motivation that comes from “within” or from inside a person. Providig students time to reflect on goals and achievements or helping students see what they have learned and how it’s important are examples of intrinsic motivators for students.
Motivation that comes from “within” or from inside a person. Providig students time to reflect on goals and achievements or helping students see what they have learned and how it’s important are examples of intrinsic motivators for students.
Intrinsic Motivation
Readiness to learn
A context within which a student’s more basic needs (such as sleep, safet, and love) are met and the student is cognitively ready for developmentally appropriate problem-solving and learning
Discover Learning
Teaching methods that enable students to discover information by themselves or in groups.
Learned Helplessness
A tendency for a person to be a passive learner who is dependent on others for guidance and decision-making.
Zone of Proximal Development
This is a key concept in Vygotsky’s theory of learning. His learning theory suggests that students learn best in a social context in which a more able adult or peer teaches the student something he or she could not learn on his or her own.
Motivation that comes from “without,” or from outside a person. Stickers, behavior charts, and incentives for learning are all examples of extrinsic motivators for students.
Extrinsic Motivation
The ability to apply a lesson learned in one situation to a new situation - for example, a student who has learned to read the word the in a book about cows and then goes home and reads the word the successfully in a note that a parent left on the counter.
Transfer
