Theories of Human Development
Curriculum and Human Development
Learning Theories
Learning Styles
Peter's Long Career in Education
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Proponents of these maintain that developmental stages have a fixed order and that each person passes through these states in that order.
What are Theories of Human Development?
100
According to the James Comer, these criteria should be an overarching consideration in curriculum, but often are not.
What are the stages of human development?
100
According to most theorists, this is manifested by a change in an individual’s knowledge or behavior that results from experience.
What is learning?
100
The media utilized and the settings and circumstances under which an individual best processes and retains information.
What is an individual’s learning style.
100
This world renowned and iconic teacher was Peter’s undergraduate Methods instructor at the University of Athens.
Who is Socrates?
200
The stages of this model of human development are the sensorimotor intelligence stage, the preoperational thought stage, the concrete operations stage and formal operational stage.
What is Jean Piaget’s Model of Cognitive Development?
200
The five aspects of human development that should be a guide to curriculum development and planning for instruction.
What are 1) the biological basis for individual differences 2) physical maturation 3) intellectual development and achievement 4) emotional growth and development 5) cultural and social development?
200
These are generally acknowledged as the two families of learning theories.
What are behavioral and cognitive?
200
Proponents of this theory maintain there are at least eight intellectual competencies---logical-mathematical, linguistic, musical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, that of the naturalist, interpersonal and intrapersonal and that curriculum should address should promote the development of all these abilities.
What is the theory of multiple intelligences?
200
“The Abacus: Our students know how to use one, so we should, too.”
What is the title of the first professional math ed in-service Peter ever attended?
300
This model encompasses eight stages of human development from infancy to old age, each of which is characterized by a “crises” that must be met and overcome for the individual’s psychological and social growth.
What is Erik Erikson’s Model of Psychosocial Development?
300
This psychiatrist advocated the teaching of life sciences curriculum, life skills training and social support as a means of promoting the social and moral development of adolescence.
Who David A. Hamburg?
300
John B. Watson and B.F. Skinner are the principal originators of this theory of learning which emphasizes change in behavior in response to a given stimulus.
What is behaviorism?
300
According to neuroscientists Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and António Damásio, this aspect the human psychological makeup plays a crucial role in learning, attention, memory, decision making and social functioning.
What is emotion?
300
The invention of this revolutionized the dissemination of information and is the most important educational technological advance in Peter’s career.
What is the printing press?
400
Building upon the work of Jean Piaget and John Dewey, this model of human development and growth encompasses ethical behaviors as well as physical and cognitive growth.
What is Lawrence Kohlberg’s Model for Moral Development?
400
The research of behavioral scientists Lisa Flook and Andrew Fuligni supports an inextricable relationship exists for students between these two domains.
What are school and home?
400
This learning theory contrasts with behaviorism in that learning can take place by individual thinking, making connections and generalizations independent of specific stimuli.
What is cognitive learning?
400
According the University of Washington professor of urban schooling, this aspect of a student’s makeup is often overlooked in curriculum development and planning.
What is the student’s cultural background?
400
“Zero and the Hindu-Arabic Place Value Number System: The Future of Computation.”
What is the title of Peter’s undergraduate thesis?
500
This psychologist, a one-time colleague of Lawrence Kohlberg, maintains the male perspective on morality is based upon rights and rules while the female perspective is based upon responsibilities and relationships.
Who is Carol Gilligan?
500
According School Administrator Tom Burton, educators often overlook this critical component of their students’ lives in curriculum development.
What is wellness or the physical and psychological benefits of unstructured social exercise and play?
500
These learning theories, widely endorsed by sociologists, anthropologists and social psychologists, blend aspects of both behavioral and cognitive learning theories maintaining humans learn on an ongoing basis by a process of constant influx of stimuli from the social environment.
What are social learning theories?
500
The age at which significant differences in social behaviors have been discovered to first occur between males and females.
What is four days? (Females make eye contact for twice as long at that age as do boys.)
500
“Shoot! If I would have known I was going to live this long, I would have gone for this Master’s degree a long time ago.”
What does Peter think to himself every time he pulls into the NTC parking lot?
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