Module 1 Provide Support for Learning Activities

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Module 1 Provide support for learning activities Exercises and activities |Question 1.1 | |In your own words, describe each of the three, theory categories that have influenced educational practice and curriculum. For each | |category, select one theory, describe its main features and give an example. | |Thorndyke and Skinner’s behaviourist theory is based on behaving how is expected of you and being rewarded or chastised for that | |behaviour. | |E.g. If a child is given the task of sitting quietly and smartly by the teacher while they are delivering a lesson, if the child fulfils | |the task set to her, she will then receive a reward for her good behaviour. Weather that is a physical reward (stickers etc.) or a verbal | |praise that child will feel good and associate that good feeling with good behaviour. | |If she does not behaving how was asked and expected they do not receive a reward and may be chastised for her actions. Therefore she will | |the associate bad behaviour with a bad feeling of disappointment. | |E.g. The teacher has asked a child to help clear the tables after arts and crafts. The child has, without any disagreement helped to clear| |away the materials used. The child then receives a sticker for ‘being a good helper’. | |Albert Bandura’s theory of social learning is based on learning from others, may that be an adult or their
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