Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved. 5.1 Chapter 5: Exploring Your Role in Fostering

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e

Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.1

Chapter 5: Exploring Your Role in Fostering Children’s Learning

Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.2

Learning Experiences

• What was your least satisfying learning experience in school?

• What was your most successful learning experience in school?

• Compare and contrast the two

• List the common features of the group’s successful learning experiences


5.3

Features of Authentic Learning Experiences

1. Use children’s prior knowledge to spark their interest in meaningful, purposeful activities

2. Promote strategic thinking

3. Foster learning through social interactions

4. Are based on each child’s ways of learning and displaying their knowledge

5. Help children apply their learning to other situations


5.4

Facilitator Principles

• Teachers’ beliefs about learning affect children and their families

• Teachers create opportunities for co-learning

• Social interactions and shared experiences increase learning

• Teachers model and teach lifelong learning skills


5.5

Learner-Centered Experiences

• Meet the needs of diverse learners

• Based on brain research

• Focus on lifelong learning

• Enhance social and emotional competence as well as intellectual learning

• Are child-initiated and child directed


5.6

Characteristics of Play

• Symbolic

• Meaningful

• Pleasurable

• Voluntary & Intrinsically Motivating

• Rule-Governed

• Episodic


5.7

Major Learning Theories

• Maturation

• Behavioral

• Social Learning

• Constructivist

• Multiple Intelligences

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