Vocab
5 tiers of human needs, starting from physiological (water, food) to self-actualization.
What is Maslow's hierarchy of needs?
The theorist behind the 8 stages of psycho-social development.
Who is Erik Erikson?
Students are rewarded with candy bars for winning class games like jeopardy in order to get students to participate in future games.
What is operant conditioning?
The "bullseye" for the difficulty of content.
What is the zone of proximal development?
The first female doctor in Italy.
Marie Montessori
An experiment where pigeons received a positive stimulus after completing a certain task like pulling a lever or pecking a circle.
What is a Skinner box?
The theorist behind the 4 stages of cognitive development.
Who is Jean Piaget?
A teacher provides drinks and snacks to the students coming in for first period who may not have had breakfast that morning, so that they can perform better at their tasks.
What is tackling Maslow's hierarchy of needs from the bottom up?
Multiple ways of thinking and learning.
What are Gardner's multiple intelligences?
One of these schools are in Dubuque.
What is a Montessori school?
A school that values discovery, imagination, hand-on collaboartive play, and the freedom of choice. Teachers follow their students.
What is a Montessori school?
The theorist behind the "ethics of care."
Who is Carol Gilligan?
Providing "mild," "medium," and "spicy," versions of the same assessment, project, or worksheet.
What is Lev Vygotsky's zone of proximal development? OR What is scaffolding?
Ring the bell and the dogs come running (or salivating.)
What is Pavlov's classical conditioning with dogs?
This theorist also wrote about a very common philosophical and ethical belief called "social contract theory."
Who is John Locke?
Students construct their own knowledge by organizing and categorizing information using a coding system.
What is discovery learning OR the constructivist approach? (Jerome Bruner)
The theorist behind behaviorism and operant conditioning.
Who is B.F. Skinner?
An educator progesses from using action-based learning strategies to image-based in order to more effectively tackle new material.
What is Jerome Bruner's constructivist theory in action?
Discovery of the child
What is John Locke known for?
This theorist studied under Carl Jung
Jean Piaget
Evaluation, synthesis, analysis, application, comprehension, and knowledge.
Creating, evaluating, analyzing, applying, understanding, remembering.
What are the old and new verbs for Blooms taxonomy?
The theorist who believed in the right that every human being had a right to learn, and it was the duty of society to provide it.
Who is Johann Pestalozzi?
Before presenting new information to new students, they review the material they covered last session as well as polish any common misconceptions they may have.
What are the third and fourth steps of Robert Gagne's 9 steps of learning?
Get students "hooked" at the beginning of class.
What is the first of Robert Gagne's 9 steps of learning?
This theorist was a research director for the air force and consulted with the department of defense multiple times.
Who is Robert Gagne?