Hi everyone. It’s me again. It has been quite long for me to
come back here because of some personal and technical problems. Thousands of
apologize for that. Well, let’s start with the topic of the 2nd week
that I have learnt in my Pedagogy in Education class. From the title above
itself you would get the hint. Yes, it is all about the Cognitive school of
thought. Many of you might be thinking what is this cognitive school of
thought? Let me tell you. The cognitive school of thought is a branch of
psychology that studies about our mental processes, which means the focus is
more on how people obtain, process and store information. Cognitive school of
thought involves human intelligence, language, thinking and problem solving,
memory, attention and perception. When comes to Cognitive school of thought, we
must remember of Jean Piaget, the psychologist who came up with the theory of
cognitive development.
Information processing and meaningful learning
are the main two things that I have learnt in the previous class.
Information processing theory focus on internal mental process
which leads to the external behavior. This theory seeks to understand how
people acquire new information, how they store information and recall it from
the short-term memory, and the way what they already know (long-term memory)
guides them, as well as how they will learn.
Long-term memory
Short-term memory
Meaningful learning is the idea how a person can construct their
own understanding out of the world’s understanding. It is often collaborative
because we naturally work in learning and gain knowledge by communication, manipulating
each other’s skills and adopting each other’s knowledge.
There are also four main teaching approaches in cognitive
school of thought:
1.
Authentic learning- learning about real life.
2.
Scaffolding- learn through guidance and support.
3.
Reciprocal teaching (Ret)- learn through communication.
4.
Problem solving- learn through giving ideas to
solve the problem.
Hi, miss Durasheeny. I really found your post was useful for my upcoming teaching career. Can you give one activity as an example for scaffolding? Thank you.
ReplyDeleteHi, Anonymous. Thank you for the comment. Well basically scaffolding is all about guidance and support. So, whenever the teacher giving the students a work to do in the class, automatically there will a part where the teacher will guide the students on how to do the work. Not only that, in certain activities where one student could not answer a question, the teacher will ask their friend to help the student. Hope that i have answered your question. Thank you. Have a nice day.
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