Name That Theorist!
This theorist developed the framework for considering human requirements that are important for an individual to achieve complete development and self-actualization.
Who is Maslow?
Self-directed learning that is innovative and creative in the creation of new Knowledge, Educator is a mentor/facilitator of the process, Learning is an active, social process that involves sharing and collaborating.
What is Constructivism?
This English theorist argues that secondary English students should be exposed to specific literary frameworks of interpretation such as postcolonial lenses, feminist theory, reader response, and deconstruction to aid in their ability to analyze works of literature.
Who is Deborah Appleman?
Emphasizes the importance of incorporating students' cultural backgrounds into the learning process to improve educational outcomes. Teachers & students engage in storytelling & personal narratives. Teacher sets clear, high expectations, and uses various brain-based strategies to reach all students.
Who is Zaretta Hammond? (Culturally Responsive Teaching & the Brain)
This theorist created a framework for evaluating educational goals that includes these six major categories: remember, understand, apply, analyze, evaluate, and create.
Who is Bloom?
Encouraging students to challenge long-held assumptions. Considering multiple ways of knowing. Considering student backgrounds when deciding how to deliver lessons/content.
What is Critical Pedagogy?
This theorist developed the Notice and Note Framework for Close Reading (Contrast and Contradictions, Aha Moment, Tough Questions, Words of the Wiser, Again and Again, Memory Moment)
Who is Robert Probst OR Kylene Beers?
This theorist argues argues that literature is not simply a surface-level story, but rather a rich tapestry of symbols, patterns, and references that connect to broader cultural and literary traditions, allowing readers to discover deeper meanings by recognizing these recurring motifs and archetypes within a text; essentially, he encourages readers to "read between the lines" and actively engage with the text to uncover its deeper layers of meaning.
Who is Thomas C. Foster? (How to Read Literature Like a Professor)
This theorist advocated for thinking by learning and doing, frequently called inquiry or Project Based Learning.
Who is Dewey?
The belief that your talents and abilities can be developed and improved through effort and practice.
What is a growth mindset?
A proponent of reader-response theory, arguing that meaning is not inherent in a text but is constructed by the reader based on their own interpretive framework.
Who is Stanley Fish?
This theorist focuses on Academic Conversations and identifies five core communications skills needed to help students hold productive academic conversation across content areas: Elaborating and Clarifying Supporting Ideas with Evidence Building On and/or Challenging Ideas Paraphrasing Synthesizing
Who is Jeff Zwiers? (Academic Conversations: Classroom Talk that Fosters Critical Thinking and Content Understanding)
This theorist argued that a student’s stage of development impacts their learning including development, self-initiated activities, discovery learning, hands-on play, classification, and discussion.
Who is Piaget?
Students’ resilience, determination, and perseverance when faced with difficult tasks.
What is grit?
Known for his "Pedagogy of the Oppressed," emphasizing critical literacy and empowering students to analyze power dynamics within texts.
Who is Paulo Freire?
This theorist argues that English teachers must “treat all students as intellectuals, instead of intellectually challenged” through embedding writing in curriculum that matters, in discussion about big ideas, and in literature rich with the full range of human experience.
Who is Linda Christensen? (Teaching for Joy and Justice: Re-Imagining the Language Arts Classroom)
This theorist coined the term "Zone of Proximal Development" meaning the range of skills that a learner can perform with guidance but can't yet do on their own.
Responsibility of learning falls on the learners. Students must do more than just listen, they must be actively engaged in the process. Students engage in higher-order thinking tasks such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation.
What is Active Learning?
Developed the concept of the "implied reader," suggesting that a text creates a space for the reader to participate and fill in gaps in meaning.
Who is Wolfgang Iser?
This theorist created a framework called Historically Responsive Literacy, derived from the study of literacy development within 19th-century Black literacy societies. The framework includes:
Who is Dr. Gholdy E. Muhammad? (Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy)