Session 5

• Mathematics
• Foundation Degree

Element 2 - Supporting Education 

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ZE30801 

T - Level in Education & Early Years 

Session 5 

Learning Objectives 

All learners will be able to:

1.  Recall independent learning task and engage in a pair & share activity.
2. Recap Piaget's cognitive development theory. 
3. Explain Piaget's schematic development (schema's).

But first...

POP QUIZ!!!!

Log onto Google Classroom. This should now be assigned as an assignment task. You have 30 mins to complete it. 

Summarise object permanence in your own words.

Starter Activity (connect)

As a table work together and share your research on Chris Athey's Schema's. 

Everyone will be provided a different coloured pen. 

Try not to duplicate your answers. 

Did you find a connection between Chris Athey & Jean Piaget?

In accordance to Piaget's cognitive development theory in what stage does conservation occur?

1. Sensorimotor stage (0-2yrs)
2. Pre operational stage (2 - 7 yrs)
3. Concrete Operational (7 - 11 yrs)
4. Formal operational (11 - 15 yrs)

Why is Piaget's theory relevant?

Piaget refined his theory to focus on how children construct knowledge about the environment around them. It is concerned with children, rather than all learners.

The goal of the theory is to explain the mechanisms and processes by which the infant, and then the child, develops into an individual who can reason and think.

To Piaget, cognitive development was about the development of mental processes.

Creating active learners who are developing in accordance to the type of experiences they are having.

Piaget's Schematic Development

Piaget came to the conclusion that all children will resemble some patterns in their behaviour and the way they 'think' & 'understand'. 

This helps them come to a reasoned conclusion about the world around them. 

For example: A child may develop a schema that all trousers are blue, simply because their trousers are blue. 

While schemas are a constant feature of each stage of cognitive development, they change in content and sophistication, just as the stages do.

Piaget's Moral Development

Summarise the term cognitive constructivism.

Creative Task!!

Choose one of the stages of cognitive development and create a visual representation of it. You could create a comic strip, a diagram, a flowchart or something completely different! 

Be sure to include key features of the stage and provide a brief explaination of your representation.