Sunday, July 20, 2014

The role learning theories in education

The highschool students nowadays should be sensitive enough to the needs of other people so what I want to impart to them is the critical thinking skill and being a responsible student by participating and getting involved with organizations dedicated in providing welfare to those who are in utmost need.

For me to mold their critical thinking skills, I have to give them them a case situation in which they have to talk with themselves and deal with it. The theory of behaviorism will come out if I continue to give them this and impost a higher grade as incentive to do a narrative reporting based from what they have learned and let them formulate ways on how they are going to solve the problem. Each student must able to present in front and after that another set of reporting comes for the next week. That should be a routine but of course, I will still be facilitating the class and clarifying things that need to be cleared for the student’s benefit. The observable behavior there is their improved ability to deal with complicated things not just by themselves but also considering the opinions and stand from other people as well.

As for cognitivism theory is concerned, my follow-up questions will stimulate the ability of these students to use their reasoning by asking mostly the WHY and HOW questions. Because of this, encouraging them also to participate in organizations and joining movements for a cause will lead to social involvement particularly responding to other’s needs and engage in leadership status because of his or her prowess to initiate certain steps towards the betterment of a certain cause he or she is in favor of.

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