PLT - EARLY CHILDHOOD EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, 100% ACCURATE/[LATEST EXAM UPDATES]

PLT - EARLY CHILDHOOD EXAM REVIEW QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, 100% ACCURATE/ cooperative learning - -method of instruction that has students working together with a common goal direct instruction - -teacher based/centered; scripted lesson plans; students know goals; assessment and feedback is frequent; teach content and review learning discovery learning - -inquiry based instruction; constructivist learning; Piaget, Bruner, Papert; problem-solving situations interdisciplinary instruction - -cross-curricular unit concept mapping - -graphic organizer; diagram showing relationships among concepts; arrows to each concept inquiry method - -student-centered learning method of education focuses on asking questions; teachers should not give a direct answer but rather encourage further questioning theorists - -Albert Bandura, Jerome Bruner, John Dewey, Jean Piaget, Lve Vygotsky, Howard Gardner, Abraham Maslow, B.F. Skinner Albert Bandura - -social development; social learning theory (children learn new behaviors from observing other people); intrinsic reinforcements (pride, satisfaction, accomplishment) could also lead to learning Lev Vygotsky - -children learn actively through hands-on experiences; sociocultural theory (parents, caregivers, peers, and the culture at large were responsible for the development of higher order functions) B.F. Skinner - -behaviorism; operant conditioning theory (children's behavior can be increased based on the presentation of reinforcers and decreased through punishment); imitation of observational learning increases the chances that children will learn new behaviors (continuation of Bandura's social learning theory) Jean Piaget - -cognitive-developmental theory (stages of development); reasoning deepens in children as they grow; engagement in the physical and social world enhances development; conceptual change occurs through assimilation and accommodation Jerome Bruner - -believed that discovery learning will help students think for themselves and discover how knowledge is constructed John Dewey - -American educator who believed in "learning by doing" that education for life should be a primary goal Howard Gardner - -theory of multiple intelligences Abraham Maslow - -humanistic theorist most famous for the development of the hierarchies of needs constructivism - -learning theory; construct und