BALANCED LITERACY PAPER A balanced literacy program includes aspects of literature-based instruction as well as phonics. Linda Chen and Eugenia Mora-Flores (2006) say that this approach “recognizes the complexities of the act of learning to read and the need to utilize multiple approaches because children learn differently.” There is no one-size-fit all strategy to teach children how to read and write, instead we need to find out the individual needs of each student and give them several strategies to work with. It is our job as educators to provide our children with meaningful opportunities for reading and writing. Before laying out an instruction outline, we need to define our goal. Every year teachers need to
His Sociocultural theory is a learning theory that looks at the important contributions society and culture play in an individual’s development. He believes that everyone learns on two levels: first through interactions with others, and then within the individual themselves. Once an individual can learn and acquire concepts with the guidance of other individuals, they will then be able to perform independently. (Cognitive Development - Vygotsky's Sociocultural Theory ) Culture is passed on by three ways; one through imitative learning – the child tries to imitate or copy another
The process begins with the equilibrium which is thrown off by a new experience. The brain then tries assimilation, putting into mind by force, or accommodation, trying new ways to absorb knowledge. This leads to the new equilibrium/schema. (instructor, ch.2 notes) Children construct their own schemas through hands on experimentations and exploration. (instructor, ch.6 lecture
These new realizations have been converted into the classrooms to better educate students. The correlation between cognition and learning is reliant, and learning cannot occur without the thought processes such as memory. Behaviors such as language cannot occur without the process of learning. References Huitt, W., & Hummel, J. (1997).
A large part of my communication is listening. Listening to parents concerns about their child from potty training to their diet. Listening to children about their concerns. In my role I will also have to have effective communication with our governing body OFSTED. When they visit I have to be able to ensure I deliver effectively the merits of my setting.
Piaget thought that, as learning is based on what we experience, childrens thinking and learning was directly related to their age and stage of development. Therefore the more they experienced the more they learnt. As children experience new things, they adapt their previously held beliefs and also gain different understanding. In order to learn and evolve their thinking, children need to have a vast amount of experiences so that they can extend and build upon what they already know. Eventually children will begin to decide for themselves which gaps they have in their learning that they like to be filled.
The performance of | | |the child depended on how the learning situation is perceived by the child in question and whether he is given the | | |optimal help by me in understanding what was expected of him. | | |In page 18 of Margret Donaldson’s book (Children’s Mind), she argued that communication is in two ways and for a | | |communication to be effective each participants needs to try understanding what the other knows already. In this | | |activity the child appeared to have more ideas about the said activity and due to this, he is able to communicate with | | |me throughout the activity showing interest and enthusiasm about what he wanted to do. As a practitioner, I listened | | |carefully and take on board what the child wanted to do. Through this, we were able to come up with an idea for the |
People learn through pursuing signs to a certain goal, and learning is acquired by meaningful behavior. Learning is emphasized by the association between stimulus and not stimulus response, and new sign or stimulus becomes related with the already meaningful stimulus and goes through significant series of matches which makes no need for reinforcement to establish learning, and therefore, cognition plays a role in learning. The theory introduced the belief that learning is a cognitive process that involves structuring beliefs and obtaining knowledge about the environment, and revealing that knowledge as a purposeful and
Teachers need to look at their ELL students as individuals with background knowledge, a culture, and prior knowledge. The goal of bilingualism is to teach the student English while appreciating their native culture including their ability to speak, read and write in their home language. Students, who continue to develop their native language while acquiring the English language, learn the second language faster. Due to this fact it is very important to get the student's parents involved in the education of their child, and to create a working relationship with their
Vygotsky's theories are constantly compared to that of Piaget's because they are both considered to be constructivists in the field of cognitive development. While there are many differences in their theories in the field of cognitive development, there are some similarities among the way they both, Piaget and Vygotsky, view the nature, or development, of human intelligence. For example, they both believe that students learn by fitting new information together with the information that they already know. They also believe that learning is affected by the context in which an idea is taught, as well as by beliefs and attitudes because the boundaries of cognitive growth are established by societal influences. They also agree that children's speech is an important part of their cognitive development and that it occurs in distinct stages.