Teachers of young children have nothing in common with teachers of elementary and high school ...

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False

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• Theories serve as a guide for assessing the developmental levels of children.


• Theory provides direction for program structure.


• Theories can serve as a bridge between different cultural views of education.

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Four conditions for learning and supporting descriptions are:
a.
Learning must be real: Teach about bodies, families, and neighborhoods. Use concrete materials instead of pictures, for example.
b.
Learning must be rewarding: Include time to try, make mistakes, improve, and encourage improvement by providing atmosphere of acceptance and of giving feedback.
c.
Learning must build on childrens lives: Connect the program to the home. Involve families and the childrens individual cultures in the school setting, help the family be welcome, understand, and support the school.
d.
Learning needs a good stage: Care for childrens health, emotional and mental, as well as physical; arrange the environment carefully; plan a sequential schedule with flexibility; interact with children and adults respectfully and clearly.

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ANSWER:
Three structures of the Freudian personality are:

id: instinctive part that drives a person to seek satisfaction

ego: rational structure that forms a persons sense of self

superego: moral side that informs the person of right and wrong

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ANSWER:
Piagets theory is both maturational and environmental:

maturational: sequence of cognitive stages governed by heredity

environmental: the experiences a child has directly influences development
Examples of each side of nature/nurture controversy:

nature/maturational: any innate, genetic, or biologic factors, such as eye color, etc.

nurture/environmental: any learned experience such as home/family, school, media, peers, toys, etc.


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Behaviorists and their contributions are:

Watson: ideas of conditioning into human terms, process of classical conditioning, scientific validation for setting conditions of learning and rewarding the proper responses

Thorndike: godfather of standardized testing, scales to measure student achievement, stimulus-response technique for establishing behavior and habits

Bloom: educational objectives, classification scheme (taxonomy) to describe pupil behaviors and educational outcomes in cognitive domains

Skinner: radical behaviorist, doctrine of person as empty organism (vessel) to be filled with carefully designed experiences

Bandura: social learning theory, idea of learning by watching (observing) and imitating (modeling) others both in real life and media

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