This learning theory is about using rewards and consequences to encourage good behaviour and discourage unwanted behaviour.
What is behaviourism?
Learning on the land and connecting with the curriculum to local communities are examples of this…
What is place-based learning?
Students are engaged in observations and stories about the environment.
What is traditional ecological knowledge?
The feedback in which red Xs and Os fill your page. Hint this is not Tic-Tac-Toe.
What is negative feedback?
This theorist created the personality test based on 4 core personality preferences.
Who is Myers-Briggs?
This teacher provides experiences that match students developmental readiness and growth.
What is developmental Stage Theory?
Students can choose material Independently, move freely, and learn at their own pace.
What is Humanism?
Students build knowledge through their connections with the land, their community, and the world around them.
What are Indigenous Ways of Knowing?
Assessment through storytelling, dialogue, and relationship-building is commonly associated with this perspective.
What is Indigenous Ways of Knowing?
There are a number of schools in the city that are named after this theorist.
Who is Maria Montessori?
This learning theory states that behaviours followed by positive consequences are more likely to be repeated, emphasizing immediate positive feedback and successful learning experiences.
What is the Law of Effect?
This theory states the best way to modify behavior is to modify the environment, according to B.F. Skinner.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Students are viewed as naturally motivated toward growth and reaching their full potential.
What is self-actualization?
This type of assessment is a method for teachers, parents and students to be able to track their combined progress in their learning. This assessment is usually at the end of a unit.
What is summative assessment?
If I Could Build a Car is my favorite book. I read it over and over which is helping me to develop my literacy skills.
Who is Elizabeth Sulzby?
Under this theorist's framework, a teacher's role is to provide students opportunities to master each cognitive stage and practice skills for the next, with tasks differentiated by concrete/abstract thinking and logical reasoning.
Who is Jean Piaget?
Before students can reach their full potential, this psychologist argued that more basic needs, including safety and belonging, must be considered.
Who was Abraham Maslow?
Students are truly learning when they feel joy and engagement with the content.
What are the ideas of Judy Willis?
This type of assessment lets teachers check how students are doing along the way, give feedback, and help them improve before the final test or assignment.
What is formative assessment?
Storywork is the premise of this theorist's work. She thought that “Stories should be shared in context because they provide understanding of the land, the animals, seasons, science topic, social studies, math thinking, etc”.
Who is Jo-Ann Archibald?
The teacher considers the physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual aspects critical to this theory.
What is Indigenous pedagogy/theory?
In this approach, creating a classroom where students feel safe, accepted, and valued is important because learning involves more than just academic achievement.
What is Humanism?
During this stage, typically experienced around ages 5–12, students develop a sense of competence through schoolwork and other tasks—or may feel inadequate.
What is industry vs. inferiority? (fourth stage of Erikson’s psychological development theory)
This style of assessment is heavy on grading, and often is tied to formulating anxiety within students.
What is summative assessment?
Dr. Alfie Kohn described this theorist as “a man who did most of his research with rodents and pigeons and wrote most of his books about people.
Who is B.F. Skinner?