Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Margaret's mind map
- Humanistic Perspective
- Process Education
- idea that a teacher should be a facilitator (rather than instructor)
and that the process of learning is more important than the end
result
- cooperative
learning
- Jigsaw technique (Johnson & Johnson,
1992)
- each student is either given a specific role to
accomplish within a group
- Advantages
- Goals/rewards depend on the
performance & contribution of group
members.
- Requires no major
restructuring of school day
- Advances the cooperation among
students of different abilities, ethnic
backgrounds, ages, and gender
(improves interpersonal & teamwork
skills)
- Disadvantages
- Some students waste time talking about
non-relevant matters Some members
dominate, others are ignored
- learning
circles
- Students are heterogeneously grouped with the aim of
learning from each other and completing tasks together
- open
classrooms
- An ‘classroom’ where large groups of mixed-ability and mixed-age
children work together in a single, large room with different ‘areas’
- Example
- Summerhill
- Strengths
- Idea that schooling should be focused around the needs of the
student (instead of the needs of the school)
- Traditional schools overwhelmingly fail to recognize this and
thus, some kids are setup to lose interest/fail/frustrated from
the start
- Can be effective for students who do not do well in traditional
setting
- Weaknesses
- Issue of feasibility (cost) on large scale and with
different students
- Often viewed as too student-centered and detracts from
preparing students to deal with the “real world”
- Criticized for not preparing for the workplace May be too
subjective in evaluating what a student learned
- Many are not trained to teach in such manners Seen as ‘European notion’ where schools often
track students instead of opening school for everyone
- Behaviorist Perspective
- Behaviorist Perspective Application
- PROGRAMMED LEARNING
(SKINNER, 1958)
- AIM
- to shape behavior (learning) into predetermined
patterns by strengthening stimulus-response
bonds
- Three Elements
- (1) it delivers information in small bites ("Frames")
- (2) it is self-paced by the learner
- (3) it provides immediate feedback, both positive and negative,
to the learner
- Uses a mechanical device
- students were rewarded immediately &
individually for correct answers
- Two Models
- LINEAR MODEL
- Student who makes a correct response proceeds to the
next frame.
- All students work through the same sequence of
question
- BRANCHED MODEL
- If a student responds incorrectly, s/he will either be
returned to the original frame, or routed through a
subprogram designed to remedy the deficiency indicated
by the wrong choice
- this process is repeated at each step
- branching one allows for the assessing of understanding
of the student and allows for the additional learning as
needed
- Strengths
- Helps to break down large amount of info into smaller, more
manageable pieces for students to comprehend
- Focuses on the topic at hand and attempts to remove other
distracters and/or the reinforcement of negative behaviors
- May alleviate issues of student frustration with a fast or slow
paced instruction
- Provides reinforcement for all students
- Research has shown that it is often as successful (or more
than) as traditional teacher-based learning (Bower, 1981)
- Weaknesses
- Not all subjects can be broken down into small bits of info or
taught effectively in this manner
- Does not account for social process of education and mostly
eliminates the student-teacher interaction
- Process can be ‘robotic’ and not interesting or
motivating
- May focus on clear-cut questions rather than abstract
ones
- Does not account for cognitive processes
- May be inclined for lower-level subjects and/or students
- Once extrinsic reward is removed, may lose effect
- BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION
TECHNIQUES
- Desists
- Timeout
- Detention
- Response costs
- Reprimands
- Contingency Contract Programs
- Token reinforcement system
- Weaknesses
- Theory itself fails to accept cognitive influences of
learning and social learning
- What may work as an effective reward or punishment
for one student may not for another
- Negative consequences may lead to more negative attitudes
(and behavior) to authority figures and school overall
- Punishment by itself does not improve behavior
as it does not show an appropriate alternative
- Strengths
- Brings unwanted behavior to the attention
of the student(s) and teacher
- Hopefully stop the behavior or prevent in the 1st place Points out to others
what is acceptable (NOT social learning)
- Can be effective when applied properly, sincerely, &
fairly
- effective
- Classical Conditioning (CC)
- Key Terms
- Stimulus
- Any change in environment that an
organism registers.
- Response
- Any behaviour that the organism emits as a consequence
of a stimulus.
- Reflex
- A consistent connection between a stimulus
and a response.
- Pavlov's experiment
on dogs
- Before
Conditioning
- BELL: Neutral
Stimulus (NS)
- does not elicit
response
- FOOD: Unconditioned
Stimulus (UCS)
- automatic
response
- SALIVATION: Unconditioned Response (UCR)
- automatic
- During Conditioning
- Pair bell with the present of food
- After Conditioning
- BELL: Conditional Stimulus (CS)
- cause response
- SALIVATION: Conditional Resonse
- due to bell
- Example
- Little Albert
- Operant Conditioning (OC)
- Definition
- A learning process by which the likelihood of a
particular behaviour occurring is determined by the
consequences of that behavior.
- Key Terms
- Reinforcement
- Anything which has the effect of increasing the likelihood of
the behaviour being repeated
- Positive Reinforcement
- using consequences that are pleasant when they happen
- Negative Reinforcement
- using consequences that are pleasant when they stop
- Punishment
- Anything which has the effect of decreasing the likelihood of
the behaviour being repeated by using consequences that
are unpleasant when happen
- Experiment
- Skinner's box
- Schedules of Reinforcement
- Fixed ratio schedules
- Variable-ratio schedules
- Fixed-interval schedules
- Variable-interval schedules
- Application Example
- Nicolas was warned that he will be dropped out from
school if he fights with other students again, so he will
be less likely to fight in the future.
- Cognitive Perspective
- piaget
- Stage 1- Sensorimotor- (birth to 2)
- Stage 2- Preoperational (2-7)
- tage 3- Concrete Operational (7-11)
- Stage 4- Formal Operational (11+)
- Bruner’s (1960)
- Discovery Learning
- students play an active role in
organizing content &
information themselves
- Ausubel’s Subsumption Theory
(1960)
- Expository
teaching
- teacher gives the learners all the
info they need in its final form
(reception learning takes place)
- Vygotsky’s ZPD
- Zone of Proximal Development
- ‘Range’ of tasks & abilities that a child cannot yet
perform independently, but can complete when
given appropriate help and support
- Vygotsky’s
Scaffolding
- Scaffolding
- : Assistance by a more competent person that helps the child
complete the ZPD task that they wouldn’t be able to complete alone
- Strengths
- it takes mental processes into account of how we play an active role in receiving,
organizing, and retaining information
- Has consistently been researched & supported for C&I purposes Research on the cognitive
approach has been tested in all formats (lab, field, natural), helping to provide a scientific basis
(similar to behaviorism)
- Has been reinforced through emerging learning styles and research into
how learning takes place
- Encourages the social process & interaction of learning through culture and
language
- useful applications to education
- Weaknesses
- To fully implement suggestions, it may require more class time, planning, and
resources than what is available
- It may not show immediate results of learning taking place
- It doesn’t account for rewards & punishments that may encourage students
- Behaviorists critique the theory and assert that it cannot be measured
objectively because it focuses on unobservable thought processes
- May not be feasible to implement in many classes (due to class size, testing distractions, allotted time, etc.)
- Overstresses the self-motivation of students
- The approach is reductionist as it focuses largely on the cognitive aspects of development,
and ignores the impact that biological factors may have on development