Sunday, 4 September 2016

Cognitive Development - Applications (Educating Children)

PIAGET

- The concept of readiness 

  • Children can only learn what their current cognitive stage allows them to.
  • Classrooms materials, subject specifications and ways of learning in class should match the stage and cognitive level of the pupil.
  • Young children have to do things to learn
  • Older children have to apply abstract thinking to learn
- Discovery learning
  • Doing, rather than lecturing
  • The teacher should ask questions, raise issues and devise activites
  • The teacher is a facilitator, as the child learns individually
- Peer support
  • Allow opportunities for unstructured and collaborative learning
  • This helps the child decentre
VYGOTSKY

- Teacher should intervene
  • It helps children develop their understanding and knowledge
  • The teacher is the main person in the pupil's ZPD
- Spiral curriculum
  • Difficult ideas are presented simply at first
  • These ideas are then revisited at a more advanced level later on
- Scaffolding in the classroom
  • People can advance a child's thinking by providing a support framework

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