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
Some important Terminologies that are related to the different Learning Theories: Assimilation: (Piaget) incorporation of incoming information; the process of a student taking some experience or piece of information and finding a home for it in the student's existing knowledge structure Accommodation: (Piaget) changing existing existing mental mental structures and concepts to incorporate incoming information experience; students reconstructing information knowledge so that it can be assimilated Students seek mental stability-"equilibrium" A balance between assimilation and accommodation that will eventually help student move onto higher level thinking and further analysis Adaptation: (Sternberg) Students practicing effective behaviors within a particular social system Sternberg mentions adaptation when he talks about his Theory of Successful Intelligence Highlights the importance of the correlation between individuals and their environment Students