Reflection Journal EDAT 6115

Chapter Five Reflection Description      This week's reading and discussion was from Chapter Five. The focus for this week's reading was on Behavioral and Social Theories of Learning. Learning depends on experience and feedback from the environment. Productive teachers will adapt these theories in their classroom to produce adequate learners. Analysis      "Learning is usually defined as a change in an individual caused by experience"(Slavin, 2015 p.100). Learning can be intentional or acquired through experience. It is a process that occurs daily and in many ways.      In the late 19th century, researchers began studying how people and animals learn. One of those researchers was a Russian scientist named Ivan Pavlov. Through the study of the digestive process in dogs, Pavlov developed the theory of classical conditioning. This theory discovered unconditioned stimulus where a response occurred automatically witho...

Chapter Two Reflection Description This chapter focused on Cognitive development as researched and described by Piaget, Vygotscky and Bronfenbrenner. These discoveries have been used to understand and reform developmentally, appropriate instruction. Analysis Understanding how a child develops is critical to understanding how a child learns. "Two central issues have been debated for decades among developmental psychologists: the degree to which deve lopment is a ffected by experience and whether development proceeds in stages "  (Slavin, 2015, p.29). P sychologist Piaget explored mental abilities and how they changed over time. His beliefs were that children's knowledge progressed in four different stages but that their knowledge was developed through action. "Piaget believed that all children are born with an innate tendency to interact with and make sense of their environments. Young children demonstrate patterns of behavior or thinking, called schemes...