CHILD DEVELOPMENT PEDAGOGY

GROWTH DEVELOPMENT CHILD

PRINCIPLES OF LEARNING

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What does Piaget’s theory of Cognitive Development address?
A
Students learn when they interact in social ways, including:Sensorimotor Level, Preoperational Stage, Concrete Operational Stage, and Formal Operational Stage.
B
Includes the Stages of Moral Development:Pre-conventional Level, Conventional Level, and Post-conventional Level into Enlightened Consciousness.
C
Includes the process of learning, including:introduction to a lesson, Processing the information and developing an understanding of the concept through work, experimentation and creating, and knowing the information by demonstration.AndThe idea that education and character comes before education of the mind.
D
Learning through experience, including:Cooperative learning; introduction of art, music, dancing, etc; School should prepare the child for active participation in the life of the community; and School is a social institution, education was a social process and a process for living.
E
Zone of Proximal Development:Potential for cognitive development is limited to a certain time span ____ depends on full social interaction with teachers or peers. Learning development is affected by culture, and scaffolding ____ where the teacher breaks a complex task into smaller tasks, models the desired learning strategy or task, provides support, gradually shifts responsibility to students.
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Jean Piaget’s theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four different stages of learning. His theory focuses not only on understanding how children acquire knowledge, but also on understanding the nature of intelligence.1 Piaget’s stages are: Sensorimotor stage: Birth to 2 years.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Theory of Cognitive Development by Jean Piaget, the Swiss psychologist, suggests that children’s intelligence undergoes changes as they grow. Cognitive development in children is not only related to acquiring knowledge, children need to build or develop a mental model of their surrounding world (Miller, 2011).

Detailed explanation-3: -To Piaget, cognitive development was a progressive reorganization of mental processes as a result of biological maturation and environmental experience. Children construct an understanding of the world around them, then experience discrepancies between what they already know and what they discover in their environment.

Detailed explanation-4: -Piaget also proposed that a child acts on his own environment for learning. Social interaction takes place mainly to move a young child away from egocentricism. It is also important to note that Piaget stated that a child either held the mental structure for conservation, for example, or he did not.

Detailed explanation-5: -By using Piaget’s theory in the classroom, teachers and students benefit in several ways. Teachers develop a better understanding of their students’ thinking. They can also align their teaching strategies with their students’ cognitive level (e.g. motivational set, modeling, and assignments).

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