Learning in The Classroom Flashcards
What is the behaviourist approach to learning?
There is a focus on associations between situations and responses.
What is social learning theory?
Emphasis on observational learning and reinforcement, as well as cognitive factors.
Explore behavioural applications to learning.
Using rewards like gold stars or verbal praise, punishments like detentions. Perhaps learning from others. Whilst easy to apply, this approach doesn’t necessarily stimulate learning and is reductionist.
Explore constructivist applications to learning
This approach suggests that disequilibrium creates an opportunity for learning through self-guided exploration and interactions with others. It also posits the child as an active agent in their learning.
Constructivist applications encourage behaviours of…
assimilation, fitting information into existing schemas, and accomodation, adjusting existing schemas.
What are the benefits and limitations of constructivist applications to learning?
This approach fosters independence and self-motivation, and leads to better retention. It may fail to promote certain cognitive processes, like selecting relevant information.
What are socio cultural approaches to learning?
This approach suggests that social activity combined with individual thinking underpins cognitive development, and that learning involves guidance by a more competent social partner.
What is the zone of proximal development?
The zone between information that’s understood and information that is out of reach.
How are socio cultural approaches applied in the classroom?
This approach asks what a child can do with support, which is addressed by dynamic assessments. This support may come from more competent others.
What are some keys to collaboration?
Guided participation, quality talk, intersubjectivity.
What is the role of the child in their learning development?
Active learning, seeking information, collaborating, and developing strategies to apply to tasks.
What is the role of the teacher in a child’s learning development?
Encouraging and enabling cognitive conflict, helping the child to access the zone of proximal development by scaffolding and offering support, and encouraging and using effective communication.
What is the role of the task in a child’s learning development?
Effective task design fosters collaboration and commitment to a shared goal and facilitates greater learning and understanding. Task characteristics helping to improve processing and recall.
What is the law of exercise?
It states that when a modifiable connection is made between a situation and a response, that connection’s strength is increased.
How is sociocultural theory applied to educational functions of classroom talk?
The theory suggests that intellect isn’t dependent only on their own efforts, but is also the product of culturally-situated forms of social interaction. It also provides a frame for relating dialogue to the growth of self-regulation in educational settings.
