Miss Frizzle
This learning theorist developed four planes of development: academic, spiritual, moral and emotional.
Who is Maria Montessori?
This concept, introduced by Vygotsky, describes the gap between what learners can do alone and what they can achieve with guidance.
What is the Zone of Proximal Development?
The second largest neurodevelopmental shift happens between these grades.
What are grades 6-9?
You cannot do this wrong–you can only do this more right.
What is teaching Indigenous Ways of Knowing?
What kind of problem can be described as the symptom of other problems?
What are Wicked Problems?
Later in life, Maslow admitted that the hierarchy of needs should be thought of not in a triangle but in this shape.
What is a Circle?
B.F. Skinner’s theory of learning focuses on using reinforcements and punishments to shape behaviour.
What is Operant Conditioning?
Connectivism shares similarities with this element of Vygotsky’s theory.
What is Zone of Proximal Development?
Using ceremony as an intervention when a student has gone brain stem could fall under this learning theory.
What is the Indigenous Perspective on Education?
This theoretical framework is for understanding learning in the digital age.
What is Connectivism?
This theorist believes that learning is spiral, not linear.
Who is Reggio?
When Dr. Sheldon Cooper presents a chocolate to elicit silence, the chocolate represents this.
What is a response?
Wiring of the speech centers happens in this age range.
What is 0-2, the first two years?
This is the center of the tree.
What is The Medicine Wheel?
The ability to recognise, understand and manage our emotions and the emotions of others.
What is Emotional Intelligence?
This theorist lists authenticity, respect/trust, and empathy as the 3 key elements of effective facilitation.
Who is Rogers?
A type of fear that develops in students as a result of a past experience.
What is a phobia?
This theorist coined Flow State: when the right balance of challenge and skill are achieved.
Who is Csikszentmihaly?
This term describes the divide between narratives of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples, as illustrated by Donaldson's analogy of the fort, where stories were once intertwined but have become separate.
What is "insider/outsider" discourse?
This theory has used neuroscience and neuroimaging to explore how the brain reacts to learning in certain situations.
What is Willis' Joy and Learning?
This instructional method involves providing support and gradually reducing help as students gain independence.
What is Scaffolding?
Conditioning Schedule is a means of systematically doing this to scaffold toward a specific behaviour.
What is reinforcement and/or punishment?
Prolonged, chaotic, severe, and uncontrollable periods of stress leads to this.
What is learned helplessness?
This theorist associated "inflicting soul wound on Indigenous people" as one of the products of the colonial school system.
Who is Marie Battiste?
Typically, this person prefers depth vs breadth, forms ideas in order to talk, and likes to understand before experiencing.
What is an Introvert?