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WorksheetsUnderstanding childrens worlds
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 6mins
What is the focus of your assignment?
Sustained shared thinking
Child centred learning
Communication language and literacy
Physical development
What theories are you using to help you understand the world of the child?
Behaviourism
Socio cultural theory
Post structuralism
Constructivism
What theorists are you using to help you understand the world of the child?
Bronfenbrenner
Piaget
Vygotsky
Bandura
Piaget
Thornton
Williams
Jones
Hall
Athey
Donaldson
Piaget
Athey developed Piagets ideas concerning schema, her research involved over 500 detailed observations and helps us think about......
Schema as repeated behaviours
a way to address behaviour management
a way to look at behaviour that demonstrates a childs thinking
a way to look at childrens thinking and interests by observing behaviour
Who critiqued Piagets ideas about egocentrism by suggesting children can decentre when things make human sense to them?
Donaldson
Athey
Jones
Vygotsky
What is the role of the adult in child centred learning?
To tell the child what needs to be done
To watch wait and wonder
To carefully observe so you can think about the childs interests
To use understanding gained through observation to enrich the learning environment
How would you describe accommodation?
A way to explain the stages of learning put forward by Piaget
How Piaget explained children adapt their existing understanding to take on new information
A place to live
How Piaget explained children are egocentric
Donaldson suggested the importance of....
Context and relationships
Embedded learning
Testing children
Behaviour management
Observations are important in supporting child centred learning because they...
Help show your manager that you are a good practitioner
Help you develop a supportive environment based on a childs interests
Help you in understanding what a child may be thinking
A quick and easy way to make links to the curriculum
I am doing well on this module because
I have shared my observation with my tutor
I am reading material from the reading list
I am asking questions
I am doing my module glossary
