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MAIN EDUCATIONAL LEARNING THEORIES - Coggle Diagram
MAIN EDUCATIONAL LEARNING THEORIES
Cognitive Learning Theory
looks at the way people think.
Examples of cognitive learning stratergies :
Asking students to reflect on their experience.
Helping students find new solutions to problems
Encouraging discussions about what is being taught.
Helping students explore and understand how ideas are connected
Asking students to justify and explain their thinking.
how we process information when we learn.
This type of teaching and learning, where the learner is mostly passive, sitting down and listening, while the active participant – the teacher – imparts their knowledge is linked to the Behaviorist Learning Theory.
Behaviorism Learning Theory
the idea that how a student behaves is based on their interaction with their environment. It suggests that behaviors are influenced and learned from external forces rather than internal forces.
Teachers in a classroom can utilize positive reinforcement to help students better learn a concept.
Students who receive positive reinforcement are more likely to retain information moving forward, a direct result of the behaviorism theory.
Constructivism Learning Theory
based on the idea that students actually create their own learning based on their previous experiences. Students take what they’re being taught and add it to their previous knowledge and experiences, creating a reality that’s unique to them.
This learning theory focuses on learning as an active process, which is personal and individual for each student.
Teachers in constructivist classrooms act as more of a guide to helping students create their own learning and understanding.
They help them create their own process and reality based on their own past.
This is crucial to helping many kinds of students take their own experiences and include them in their learning.
Humanism Learning Theory
is very closely related to constructivism.
directly focuses on the idea of self-actualization.
Self-actualization is at the top of the hierarchy of needs—it’s the brief moments where a person feels all of their needs are met and that they’re the best possible version of themselves. Everyone is striving for this, and learning environments can either move toward meeting needs or away from meeting needs.
Teachers can create classroom environments that help students get closer to their self-actualization.
Educators can help fulfill students’ emotional and physical needs, giving them a safe and comfortable place to learn, plenty of food, and the support they need to succeed.