Theorists
Theorist who focused on the importance of the first 5 years and promoted the id, ego, and superego.
Who is Sigmond Freud?
Learning through built knowledge through exploration with hands-on activities was developed by this theorist.
Who is Jean Piaget?
A parent who believes his child will be born "good" and can only be influenced to behave badly if they let society affect the child is the idea of this theorist.
Who is Jean Rousseau?
The foundation and lowest level in Bloom's Taxonomy.
What is Knowledge?
Factors like hair color, skin color, and gender.
What are heredity factors?
Theorist whose 8 stages included a social conflict or crises that must be resolved.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Behavior modification using positive and negative reinforcement.
What is operant conditioning?
Mr. Hanson, a pre-K teacher, believes that his students will learn best from self-exploration as they move through various cognitive stages following this theorist.
Who is Jean Piaget?
The highest level of thinking in Bloom's Taxonomy.
What is evaluate?
Factors like relationships with friends, physical strength, and religious involvement.
What are environmental factors?
Theorist who believed that corporal punishment and rote memorization has no place in the instructional process.
Who is Pestalozzi?
A child's development is shaped by five interconnected environmental systems, from immediate surroundings (microsystem) to broader cultural influences (macrosystem) and historical context (chronosystem), highlighting that development is a complex interaction between people and their environment.
What is Ecological Systems Theory?
Shelly, a daycare director, encourages the children to work out problems on their own and gain skills to make them independent is influenced by this theorist.
Who is Maria Montessori?
Multiple intelligence category that fits a student who clearly visualizes when thinking, easily reads maps, charts, and diagrams and daydreams.
What is spatial?
Principle or idea that is proposed, researched, and generally accepted as an explanation of human behavior.
What is theory?
Theorist who believed intelligence is the result in complex interactions between children's culture and experiences.
Who is Lev Vygotsky?
Theory that suggests observation and modeling play a primary role in how and why people learn. Developed by Robert Bandura.
What is Social Learning Theory?
Anthony, an elementary principal, began a new program giving students points for reading books. They received a reward for a certain number of points. If students do not read, they have a negative consequence which follows this theorist.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
Multiple intelligence category that fits a student who socializes a great deal, has a lot of friends, gets involved in after school activities, and has empathy for others' feelings.
What is interpersonal?
Term used for teachers planning and executing different ways to teach content, process, and product so that all learners can succeed.
What is differentiated instruction?
Theorist who believes that intelligence can't be measured in just one way; we all have various intelligences that help us learn.
Who is Howard Gardner?
Identified eight intelligences, including linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalistic.
What is Multiple Intelligence Theory?
Johnny, a third grade student, is faced with a situation where he saw another student drop a ten dollar bill and knows the right thing to do is return the money to the student. Johnny is impacted by this theorist.
Multiple intelligence category that fits a student who is competitive, needs to touch people when they talk, and often move, twitch, tap or fidget when sitting in a chair.
What is kinesthetic?
Opened the first English-language Kindergarten in the United States. Advocating for child development through play-based, organic growth rather than rote instruction base off of Froebel.
Who is Elizabeth Peabody?