What is learning?
Learning comes in stages and isn't automatically just pored into your head. Babies and small children are only capable of sensory-motor learning, while older children and adults should be capable of formal-operations learning. People learn from experience and their experiences and abilities improve and mature over time.
How can learning be best effectuated by the teacher?
Teachers need to build on the background knowledge and experiences students have, but teachers need to realize that their students are in different stages of development and thinking. Teachers cannot give the same logic/reasoning problem to a 2nd grader that they can to an 11th grader. Those 2nd grade students simply do not have the experience necessary to know what to do with that type of problem.
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Hailey,
ReplyDeleteI agree with your comments this week. It is so important that teachers understand that students are at different places in their development and that they need to design their instruction to their student's ability level. This was a good reminder to me that just because a student is a certain age or in a particular grade that does not guarantee what background, experience, or skill set they come with. Thanks!
Jodi
you are going to read a theory later this semester (Vygotsky) where the author thinking that you can have students learn stuff/solve problems that are beyond their current capabilities
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