Stuff I read in the Textbook
This view of learning is a cause and effect approach, in which external factors lead to a response.
What is behaviourism
In Pavlov's study, this served as a conditioned stimulus.
What is the tuning fork (or bell, to us common folk).
This is the first level of Maslow's hierarchy, which is often unmet in adolescence due to changes in sleep and eating patterns.
What is physiological needs?
Helping adolescents learn to take collective responsibility for harm that was done and seek ways to repair together is an example of this approach.
What is restorative justice?
Jethro is back to heckling the teacher. She has her back turned to the class and is visibly shaking, but Jethro just keeps going. What are the important next steps for the teacher?
What are regulate, relate, reason?
What is the information-processing model?
What is psychological constructivism?
This is a major factor in an adolescent's readiness to learn.
What is belonging?
What is safety?
Debbie has her PPT slideshow and her box of chocolates ready for ATAR Modern History; she'll give a pop quiz every seven slides and the reward will be a chocolate. The first seven slides have so much information on them that one student stress spews in the bin, followed by three who put their heads down. No chocolates are worth this kind of insanity. What should Debbie do?
What is lean into her constructivist and humanist approaches to re-establish safety in learning?
These two processes help us to retain information.
What are rehearsal and chunking?
The gap between what we can learn alone and what is possible with the collaboration of a more knowledgeable peer or teacher facilitator.
What is Zone of Proximal Development
Regulate, relate, reason are all aspects of this model.
What is The Nuerosequential Model?
This is used to describe situations where student and/or teacher stress levels rise, creating a situation where the classroom environment quickly unravels and becomes unsafe.
What is dysregulation?
Shamika's uncle owns an IGA where eggs are $2 a dozen this week. Her year 9 practice NAPLAN asks her how many eggs she can buy at Woolies @$6 per dozen with $24. Shamika responds by indicating she would never get her eggs at Woolies when her uncle is selling them for $2 and she can buy 12 dozen eggs instead of 4 dozen at Woolies. What should the teacher do?
What is the teacher should mark the answer correct, as Shamika can clearly do the calculations at a level beyond what the question is asking?
What is excessive cognitive load?
This theorist believed language played an integral role as a cultural tool in learning.
Who is Vygotsky
This is a significant player in adolescence, often impacting the prefrontal cortex.
What is stress?
This can impact our abilities to regulate under normal circumstances and navigate everyday stressors.
What is trauma?
Ivan approaches his class by valuing each student's needs and wishes every day of the year. He checks in with all of his students, stopping by their desks to ask them questions about their emotional and physiological states, ensuring that he is creating a safe classroom. The problem is, while he is chatting with each student, the other 35 in the class are all over the place, hanging out of their desks, on their phones, and cracking jokes. Sometimes, Ivan can't even get to the lesson because they are so off the rails by the end of his check in. What should he do?
What is consider the potential harm a solely humanist approach to teaching may be doing? Or consider how his pedagogical approaches could weave into connecting with students through their engagement with the curriculum?
This higher order thinking skill involves knowledge of and control over our own cognitive processes.
What is metacognition?
independent exploration and discovery are key aspects of this approach to constructivism.
What is psychological constructivism?
Integrating well-being and academic achievement are key characteristics of this approach to adolescent learning and development.
These are everyday aspects of classrooms that support adolescent development and wellbeing.
What are predictable routines?
You've decided you are an experiential teacher who relies on a constructivist approach. You take your students out on the local lake in the boats they constructed from cardboard in your class. When you return, there is an irate principal waiting for you. What happened?
What is you did not complete a risk assessment or inform anyone of your plans. You cannot take students off campus without following procedures.