Understanding childrens worlds

What is the focus of your assignment?

• Sustained shared thinking

• Child centred learning

• Communication language and literacy

• Physical development

What theories are you using to help you understand the world of the child?

• Behaviourism

• Socio cultural theory

• Post structuralism

• Constructivism

What theorists are you using to help you understand the world of the child?

• Bronfenbrenner

  Piaget

  Vygotsky

• Bandura

  Piaget

  Thornton

• Williams

  Jones

  Hall

• Athey

  Donaldson

  Piaget

Athey developed Piagets ideas concerning schema, her research involved over 500 detailed observations and helps us think about......

• Schema as repeated behaviours

• a way to address behaviour management

• a way to look at behaviour that demonstrates a childs thinking

• a way to look at childrens thinking and interests by observing behaviour

Who critiqued Piagets ideas about egocentrism by suggesting children can decentre when things make human sense to them?

• Donaldson

• Athey

• Jones

• Vygotsky

What is the role of the adult in child centred learning?

• To tell the child what needs to be done

• To watch wait and wonder

• To carefully observe so you can think about the childs interests

• To use understanding gained through observation to enrich the learning environment

How would you describe accommodation?

• A way to explain the stages of learning put forward by Piaget

• How Piaget explained children adapt their existing understanding to take on new information

• A place to live

• How Piaget explained children are egocentric

Donaldson suggested the importance of....

• Context and relationships

• Embedded learning

• Testing children

• Behaviour management

Observations are important in supporting child centred learning because they...

• Help show your manager that you are a good practitioner

• Help you develop a supportive environment based on a childs interests

• Help you in understanding what a child may be thinking

• A quick and easy way to make links to the curriculum

I am doing well on this module because

• I have shared my observation with my tutor

• I am reading material from the reading list

• I am asking questions

• I am doing my module glossary