Learning Theories

​Theories Supporting the Teaching of PE and Health for Elementary Grades

​Reasons for using learning theories:

1. Theories provide a foundation for understanding.

2. Theories include in-depth insights into learning.

3. Learning theories include structures.

4. These structures can be used by educators as learning designers.

​Cognitive Learning Theory

Concentrates on how a person's mind receives, organizes, saves, and retrieves information. The cognitive theory believes that the human mind functions like an information processor or computer. Therefore, the cognitivist approach looks beyond noticeable behavior, considering learning as an internal mental process.

Main, P (2022, December 09). Cognitivism Learning Theories: A teachers guide. Retrieved from https://www.structural-learning.com/post/cognitivism-learning-theories

Known Personalities under Cognitive Psychology

1. Plato

2. Descartes

3. Jean Piaget

Components of the Mental Process:

• Attention

• Observing

• Perceptions

• Interpreting

• Organizing

• Memory

• Categorizing

• Forming Generalization

​Benefits of PE and Health from Cognitive Learning Theory

Constructivism Learning Theory

​The Process of Assimilation and Accommodation

​Essential Components of Constructivist Teaching

​1. Elicit prior knowledge
2. Create cognitive dissonance
3. Apply knowledge with feedback
4. Reflect on learning