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PTL
Principles of Teaching and Learning
Term | Definition |
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Bandura | Social Learning Theory-Children learn and imitate behaviors they have seen in other people. |
Bruner | Learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge. The learner selects and transforms information, constructs hypotheses, and makes decisions, relying on a cognitive structure to do so. |
Dewey | Progressive educational reforms. Said you learn by doing. One of the fathers of education. |
Piaget | Swiss Psychologist, father of education (Cognition). Stage theorist-starting at birth, children go through stages that build on each other. Model describes how humans go about making sense of their world by gathering and organizing information. |
Vygotsky | Social context of learning - importance of having a teacher. Cultural context is everything. (other countries go to school 6 days and homework 3 hours). ZPD (balance between too hard & too easy. |
Kohlberg | Theory of moral development (based in part on Piaget's ideas). Stages of moral development. |
Bloom | Taxonomy of learning domain-orders of higher thinking (pyramid) |
Gardner | Multiple intelligences-musical–rhythmic, visual–spatial, verbal–linguistic, logical–mathematical, bodily–kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic. |