Explain Your Theory
Choose and Expalin Your Theory and Theorist 1
Choose and Explain Your Theory and Theorist
Lien Dominic
Rasmussen College
Author Note This paper is being submitted on September 1, 2013, for Dr. Melissa Shamblott
EC100 Section 04 Foundations of Child Development - 2013 Early Fall Quarter
Choose and Explain Your Theory and Theorist 2
After searching through all the different theorists and their theories, the two theorists I identify with the most are Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori. Montessori and Piaget both believed that children learn best through self guided learning and exploration of their environments (Marotz & Allen, 2007). According to the Growth, Development, and Brain Leture, “Development is the increase in the complex nature of a child's skills, growth, and behavior. Development will fall along a continuum and progress in a fairly predictable order. The one aspect that varies is the child's individual timing rather than the order of growth and development. The variations occur due to genetics, environment, cultural choices, and physical maturity. Children learn increasingly complex skills and experience physical changes in the predictable order even though they may achieve these skills and changes at different rates of speed. The steps or points of accomplishment children go through are called developmental milestones. Typical developing children will achieve these milestones in an orderly way and will show them at predictable ages. When children do not achieve these milestones in a reasonable time, they can be considered as developing atypically and should be observed to provide the optimum environment for their individual growth.”
They both believed that not all children are going to learn best by sitting down and reading from a textbook, and that very child has a unique learning
Choose and Explain Your Theory and Theorist
Lien Dominic
Rasmussen College
Author Note This paper is being submitted on September 1, 2013, for Dr. Melissa Shamblott
EC100 Section 04 Foundations of Child Development - 2013 Early Fall Quarter
Choose and Explain Your Theory and Theorist 2
After searching through all the different theorists and their theories, the two theorists I identify with the most are Jean Piaget and Maria Montessori. Montessori and Piaget both believed that children learn best through self guided learning and exploration of their environments (Marotz & Allen, 2007). According to the Growth, Development, and Brain Leture, “Development is the increase in the complex nature of a child's skills, growth, and behavior. Development will fall along a continuum and progress in a fairly predictable order. The one aspect that varies is the child's individual timing rather than the order of growth and development. The variations occur due to genetics, environment, cultural choices, and physical maturity. Children learn increasingly complex skills and experience physical changes in the predictable order even though they may achieve these skills and changes at different rates of speed. The steps or points of accomplishment children go through are called developmental milestones. Typical developing children will achieve these milestones in an orderly way and will show them at predictable ages. When children do not achieve these milestones in a reasonable time, they can be considered as developing atypically and should be observed to provide the optimum environment for their individual growth.”
They both believed that not all children are going to learn best by sitting down and reading from a textbook, and that very child has a unique learning