D094
Educational Psychology and Development of Children and Adolescents
Task 1
A1: STUDENT POPULATION: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
I will be observing the video Observing and Measuring the Weather video #53. This
second-grade class is made up of 20 students ranging in age from 7 to 8. The students come from
diverse ethnic backgrounds. “Their first languages include English, Mende, Spanish, and Urdu”
(ATLAS, n.d.). Those students who do not use English as their first language receive specific
language instruction from English Second Language (ESL) specialist. A few of her students have
special needs, one of the students has a hearing impairment, one student is diagnosed with
ADHD, and two others struggle with staying focus.
A2: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The developmental stage the students in the video are in is Piaget’s concrete operational
stage. Children in this stage are elementary age students that need to work with a hands-on
approach to learning. In the video, this is evident because the teacher has created a science
experiment that puts her entire class into groups. Each group of students is given a measurement
tool which could have been a thermometer, windsock, anemometer, or a ruler. Every student
began each day with their own measurement tool to measure temperature, wind direction, wind
, speed, or precipitation accumulation. For several days, this hands-on approach allowed the
teacher to engage the students in observing the changes in their weather. This allowed them all
the opportunity to use every measurement tool and create data that they were able to analyze.
Which in turn allowed them to understand the changes in their weather through a hands-on
approach.
A3: LEARNING THEORY AND ASSESSMENT: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The learning theory that is evident in the video is cooperative theory learning.
Cooperative theory learning believes that, “The focus is on the product more than the process,
students of mixed abilities are grouped together, students work in groups on a structured activity,
and instruction is teacher-led” (Acrobatiq, n.d.). The teacher’s strategy is aligned with
cooperative theory learning because in the video, she is using this strategy to lead the science
activity by placing students into mix groups to help them actively participate together. Allowing
them to have individual accountability with their separate measurement tools, and then having
them combine their information into one graph for the group. All of this supports the cooperative
theory learning.
The assessment strategy the teacher is using in the video is formative. Formative
assessment is when the focus is on learning, occurs during instruction, and provides feedback to
determine student learning. The assessment is done by giving the group of students a packet of
activity follow-up questions to assess the student’s observation of weather over a couple of days.
The teacher was using this assessment to fairly measure the abilities of her students and to
determine progress towards meeting the objectives throughout the assignment. This assessment
Educational Psychology and Development of Children and Adolescents
Task 1
A1: STUDENT POPULATION: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
I will be observing the video Observing and Measuring the Weather video #53. This
second-grade class is made up of 20 students ranging in age from 7 to 8. The students come from
diverse ethnic backgrounds. “Their first languages include English, Mende, Spanish, and Urdu”
(ATLAS, n.d.). Those students who do not use English as their first language receive specific
language instruction from English Second Language (ESL) specialist. A few of her students have
special needs, one of the students has a hearing impairment, one student is diagnosed with
ADHD, and two others struggle with staying focus.
A2: DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The developmental stage the students in the video are in is Piaget’s concrete operational
stage. Children in this stage are elementary age students that need to work with a hands-on
approach to learning. In the video, this is evident because the teacher has created a science
experiment that puts her entire class into groups. Each group of students is given a measurement
tool which could have been a thermometer, windsock, anemometer, or a ruler. Every student
began each day with their own measurement tool to measure temperature, wind direction, wind
, speed, or precipitation accumulation. For several days, this hands-on approach allowed the
teacher to engage the students in observing the changes in their weather. This allowed them all
the opportunity to use every measurement tool and create data that they were able to analyze.
Which in turn allowed them to understand the changes in their weather through a hands-on
approach.
A3: LEARNING THEORY AND ASSESSMENT: ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
The learning theory that is evident in the video is cooperative theory learning.
Cooperative theory learning believes that, “The focus is on the product more than the process,
students of mixed abilities are grouped together, students work in groups on a structured activity,
and instruction is teacher-led” (Acrobatiq, n.d.). The teacher’s strategy is aligned with
cooperative theory learning because in the video, she is using this strategy to lead the science
activity by placing students into mix groups to help them actively participate together. Allowing
them to have individual accountability with their separate measurement tools, and then having
them combine their information into one graph for the group. All of this supports the cooperative
theory learning.
The assessment strategy the teacher is using in the video is formative. Formative
assessment is when the focus is on learning, occurs during instruction, and provides feedback to
determine student learning. The assessment is done by giving the group of students a packet of
activity follow-up questions to assess the student’s observation of weather over a couple of days.
The teacher was using this assessment to fairly measure the abilities of her students and to
determine progress towards meeting the objectives throughout the assignment. This assessment
