Middle Grades 4-8 Praxis Study Blogs

Some MORE important Terminologies that are related to the different Learning Theories we should know: Multiple intelligences  Based on Gardner's Theory there are eight different intelligences that function independent of each other linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, musical, bodily-kinesthetic, interpersonal and intrapersonal Self-efficacy: A student's belief that he or she can succeed in a particular task or goal. The student must know what actions to perform and how well these actions need to be performed. Relates to students' choices, effort, persistence and quality of problem solving on tasks Students with high self -efficacy tend to take more control over their learning, try to find better study habits and extend more effort (increases motivation and metacognition)  Constructivism: The idea that students are active knowledge producers and able to construct their own knowledge, ideas and concepts. Teachers are acting as facilitators and providing