Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching:
Grades 7-12 PLT Questions With Complete
Solutions
Bandura Theorist - "Social Learning Theory" Children learn by observing others. Model
behaviors and skills. Cognitive and Behavioral.
1. attention
2. retention
3. motor reproduction
4. motivation
Bruner Theorist - Cognition - "Constructivist Theory." Discovery learning and
scaffolding. Learning is an active process, learners construct ideas based on knowledge or past
experiences. Instruction should allow students to discover information by themselves (dialog).
(1) predisposition towards learning, (2) the ways in which a body of knowledge can be structured
so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner, (3) the most effective sequences in which to
present material, and (4) the nature and pacing of rewards and punishments
, Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching:
Grades 7-12 PLT Questions With Complete
Solutions
Dewey Learning Through Experience and father of progressive education. Project-based
learning, cooperative learning. Learning is a process of living. Teach children to be problem
solvers. "Just Dew it"
Piaget Theorist (Biology and Philosophy) - "Genetic Epistemology." - wanted to know
how knowledge developed in human organisms 4 Stages of Cognitive Development.
sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, and formal operations.
sensorimotor (Piaget) (0-2 years), intelligence takes the form of motor actions.
preoperations (Piaget) (3-7 years) Intelligence is intuitive in nature.
concrete operations (Piaget) (8-11 years) Intelligence is logical but depends upon concrete
referents.
formal operations (Piaget) (12-15 years), thinking involves abstractions.
, Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching:
Grades 7-12 PLT Questions With Complete
Solutions
Assimilation involves the interpretation of events in terms of existing cognitive structure
accommodation refers to changing the cognitive structure to make sense of the
environment
Vygotsky Theorist - The major theme of Vygotsky's theoretical framework is that social
interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition. cognitive development
depends on Zone of Proximal Development (what the student can do with help). "social
development theory of learning." Cognitive.
Kohlberg Theory of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, and post-
conventional). theorist
Bloom His taxonomy of learning domains - impact the way educators writer learning
objectives, plan learning activities, and assess student performance.
Thorndike Connectionism. Learning theorist. (cat in box experiment)
Grades 7-12 PLT Questions With Complete
Solutions
Bandura Theorist - "Social Learning Theory" Children learn by observing others. Model
behaviors and skills. Cognitive and Behavioral.
1. attention
2. retention
3. motor reproduction
4. motivation
Bruner Theorist - Cognition - "Constructivist Theory." Discovery learning and
scaffolding. Learning is an active process, learners construct ideas based on knowledge or past
experiences. Instruction should allow students to discover information by themselves (dialog).
(1) predisposition towards learning, (2) the ways in which a body of knowledge can be structured
so that it can be most readily grasped by the learner, (3) the most effective sequences in which to
present material, and (4) the nature and pacing of rewards and punishments
, Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching:
Grades 7-12 PLT Questions With Complete
Solutions
Dewey Learning Through Experience and father of progressive education. Project-based
learning, cooperative learning. Learning is a process of living. Teach children to be problem
solvers. "Just Dew it"
Piaget Theorist (Biology and Philosophy) - "Genetic Epistemology." - wanted to know
how knowledge developed in human organisms 4 Stages of Cognitive Development.
sensorimotor, preoperations, concrete operations, and formal operations.
sensorimotor (Piaget) (0-2 years), intelligence takes the form of motor actions.
preoperations (Piaget) (3-7 years) Intelligence is intuitive in nature.
concrete operations (Piaget) (8-11 years) Intelligence is logical but depends upon concrete
referents.
formal operations (Piaget) (12-15 years), thinking involves abstractions.
, Praxis Principles of Learning and Teaching:
Grades 7-12 PLT Questions With Complete
Solutions
Assimilation involves the interpretation of events in terms of existing cognitive structure
accommodation refers to changing the cognitive structure to make sense of the
environment
Vygotsky Theorist - The major theme of Vygotsky's theoretical framework is that social
interaction plays a fundamental role in the development of cognition. cognitive development
depends on Zone of Proximal Development (what the student can do with help). "social
development theory of learning." Cognitive.
Kohlberg Theory of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, and post-
conventional). theorist
Bloom His taxonomy of learning domains - impact the way educators writer learning
objectives, plan learning activities, and assess student performance.
Thorndike Connectionism. Learning theorist. (cat in box experiment)
