Pgce Foundations of Teaching and Learning
Foundations of teaching and learning
“Teaching is a bit like giving learners a toolkit of skills” (Geoff Petty 2009)
I am going to deliver a lesson to my students, which will include the three main schools of learning, Behaviourism, Cognitivism and Humanism. I will incorporate these ways of learning into my lesson plans to ensure my students are offered a range of learning strategies.
“The behaviourist learning theory suggests that we learn by receiving a stimulus that provokes a response. So long as the response is reinforced in some way that response will be repeated.”
(Reece and Walker 2007)
I think behaviourism is important within the classroom as it is controlled Education, where the teacher takes control of the class and the environment that the students are in. Behaviourism is the educational theory that is based on the underlying ideology that the environment has direct influence on behaviour.
Aims and objectives must be shown at the beginning of the class, to ensure the students are aware of what is expected of them. Reinforcement should be used to strengthen behaviour that you want to encourage. Students should be rewarded immediately so it gives the student motivation and confidence to move on to the next stage. Rewards can be offered in a variety of ways e.g. praise, letting them take part in something they enjoy doing, and should be used often when starting a new subject. To ensure students are kept motivated.
Behaviourists look for rewards from others such as teachers, family and peers etc.…
Some behaviour is inappropriate so a punishment is given to stop that particular behaviour occurring again.
People learn by copying from others, for example, performing a demonstration (you are the model) students will learn behaviours from the model.
Within my lesson plan I have covered behaviourism with discussing previous background
“Teaching is a bit like giving learners a toolkit of skills” (Geoff Petty 2009)
I am going to deliver a lesson to my students, which will include the three main schools of learning, Behaviourism, Cognitivism and Humanism. I will incorporate these ways of learning into my lesson plans to ensure my students are offered a range of learning strategies.
“The behaviourist learning theory suggests that we learn by receiving a stimulus that provokes a response. So long as the response is reinforced in some way that response will be repeated.”
(Reece and Walker 2007)
I think behaviourism is important within the classroom as it is controlled Education, where the teacher takes control of the class and the environment that the students are in. Behaviourism is the educational theory that is based on the underlying ideology that the environment has direct influence on behaviour.
Aims and objectives must be shown at the beginning of the class, to ensure the students are aware of what is expected of them. Reinforcement should be used to strengthen behaviour that you want to encourage. Students should be rewarded immediately so it gives the student motivation and confidence to move on to the next stage. Rewards can be offered in a variety of ways e.g. praise, letting them take part in something they enjoy doing, and should be used often when starting a new subject. To ensure students are kept motivated.
Behaviourists look for rewards from others such as teachers, family and peers etc.…
Some behaviour is inappropriate so a punishment is given to stop that particular behaviour occurring again.
People learn by copying from others, for example, performing a demonstration (you are the model) students will learn behaviours from the model.
Within my lesson plan I have covered behaviourism with discussing previous background