Classroom Plan
Bernadette Petty
ECE 332: Child Development
Instructor: Melanie Rodriguez
Date: July 23, 2016
Classroom Plan
For my classroom plan, I chose to discuss a preschool room. I will talk about what I think Piaget’s stage theory is in my words. I will also identify and describe the development characteristics of preschool children. I will create a layout of a preschool classroom, and I will create an activity that goes with each development.
Piaget’s stage theory is that children learn in stages (Lefrancois, 2012). Piaget states that children’s learning and growth are gradual. In the pre-school age children have moved pasted the infancy stage and are in beginning the middle part of the preoperational stage (Lefrancois,
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The third stage is the concrete operations stage from ages 7-11. In this stage children have learned to consider others thoughts and feelings as well as their own and are now able to process more complex thinking (Lefrancois, 2012). Piaget also felt that direct teaching instead of using an example, was better for children to learn because children learn from their experiences (Lefrancois, 2012). According to Piaget a child’s knowledge grows from using concrete objects, objects of different sizes, shapes, colors, and the child learns to sort, classify, compare, and sequence, they make discoveries, they experiment, and they modify their way of thinking (Lefrancois, 2012). Children should have a variety of toys and materials to experiment with and teachers should let the children in the preschool age explore, play make believe, and involve themselves with the children so that they are able to learn on their own with guidance.
Developmental characteristics for the pre-school age group are language development, cognitive, physical, social and emotional. Language development at this time should include using short sentences at the beginning of preschool, at least three to five words (Building,) Children are able to make comments and request, like saying something is pretty or asking for a snack. During language development children
The third stage is the Concrete Operational Stage, which occurs around age seven to age eleven. This stage marks the beginning of logical or operational thoughts for the child. Their thinking becomes less egocentric, and the child can now understand that although the appearance of something changes, the “thing” itself does not. For example, if a child decided to spread out a pile of blocks, they know there are still as many blocks as there were before, even though it looks different.
The teacher could place two cups that have the same amount of liquid in the cups but because one of the cups is taller than the other the child is going to think the taller glass has more liquid in it. The third stage is the concrete operational stage which occurs during ages seven to eleven. The term concrete operational means the child can reason only about tangible objects presents. So the child can conserve and think logically but only with practical aids. Thinking becomes less egocentric with increased awareness of external events. The fourth and final stage is the formal operational stage which occurs during ages eleven to fifteen. This stage focuses on hypothetical thinking and scientific reasoning. Piaget believed that only children can learn when they are ‘ready’ to learn. He also believed that development couldn 't be ‘sped up.’ Piaget believed that children learned through the resolution of disequilibrium (self discovery, active participation). He believed that teachers should ‘bend’ to children’s needs, provide an appropriate environment, promote self discovery, exploratory learning, self-motivated learning, and set challenges to existing schemes.
Piaget’s theory was introduced by Jean Piaget who established four periods of cognitive development. The four stages are; Sensorimotor, Preoperational, Concrete Operational, and Formal operational. The sensorimotor is the first stage and begins when the child is born and proceeds until the age of two years. The second stage is the preoperational stage and begins with the child is two years old and continues until the child reaches six years of age. The concrete stage is the third stage and begins when the child is six years old and proceeds until the age of 11 years old. The formal operational stage is the fourth stage and
Jean Piaget created a framework of cognitive development in a series of four stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. According to Piaget, the outcome of learning depends on what cognitive developmental stage the learner is in. For example, you would not give a calculus problem to a two to seven year old child because they have not yet entered the stage of formal operation, or abstract, logical thinking. A child must be presented with an environment that suits their thought.
Piaget’s developmental stages are ways of normal intellectual development. There are four different stages. The stages start at infant age and work all the way up to adulthood. The stages include things like judgment, thought, and knowledge of infants, children, teens, and adults. These four stages were names after Jean Piaget a developmental biologist and psychologist. Piaget recorded intellectual abilities and developments of infants, children, and teens. The four different stages of Piaget’s developmental stages are sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational. Sensorimotor is from birth up to twenty- four months of age. Preoperational which is toddlerhood includes from eighteen months old all the
Piaget developed the theory of stage development; he had based his theories on his children by carrying out detailed observations where he came up with four stages in each process. But he believed a child had to be at a certain age to learn something or they simply couldn’t learn it or know it. I believe he underestimated children’s abilities and knowledge. The first stage was called sensorimotor stage- in this stage children learnt through using their 5 senses, touch, taste, smell, seeing and hearing. He believe they understood that the
The Piaget's stage theory of cognitive development is also known as the stage theory. It introduces that, in the expansion of our thinking, we act through an organized and certain sequence of steps. However, the theory focuses not only on compassionate how the children obtain knowledge, but likewise on the discernment of the substance of intelligence. According to the Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, there are two stages in the thinking pattern of a 3-year old preschooler and 9-year-old student. They are the preoperational stage for the 2 to 7 year old and the concrete operations stage for the 9 year old. The preoperational stage (three years old preschooler), this is where a new child can intellectually perform and signify to the objects and issues with the quarrel or the images, and they can act. The concrete operations (nine year old student), where a child is at the stage and deliver the ability to maintain, reserve their thinking, and analyze the objects in conditions of their many parts. However, they can also assume logically and understand comparison, but only about the concrete events.
At the centre of Piaget's theory is the principle that cognitive development occurs in a series of four distinct, universal stages, each characterized by increasingly sophisticated and
Piaget believed everyone had to go through each stage of development. Although some kids may show characteristics of more than one stage at a time, he was certain that cognitive development always followed the sequence of the stages, stages cannot be skipped, and each stage is marked by new intellectual abilities and more complex understandings of the world. With this experiment I will prove how each toy can improve, or dismantle each stage for children. While in the toy store I watched how kids were interacting with one another, and how they handled some of the toys. Having, a niece, nephew, and Godson who are infants it was easier to find
This stage is distinguished by applying their knowledge directly to actual object and real situations (McLeod 2010). Having an understanding of Piaget’s stages of cognitive development, I will know how my students think and comprehend. By this, I can create lessons that incorporate proper materials needed for my students to understand and complete the lesson. I will encourage my students to participate in group activities within the class and also encourage them to explain how they solve given problems (Handoo 2011). Piaget’s cognitive development theory gives me insight to my students’ way of thinking which will positively impact me as a
He told adults that they needed to work alongside their children and children can work alongside each other developing each other potential. He knew that direct teaching was important but it was just as important for children to work together and them being active in their learning.
In this essay, I will be designing an ideal preschool environment for ages three to five based on the theories of Jean Piaget, Lev Vygotsky, Mildred Parten, and other notable
Piaget’s Stage Theory in my eyes was four key stages of development marked by shifts in how they understand the world. To me Piaget’s theories had a major impact on the theory and practice of education.
One can see here that Piaget’s theory on the preoperational stage is factual since the girls imagination began to fly and learn independently by creating their own world. As children play, the “sociodramatic play allows children to… explore and rehearse the social roles around them, test their ability to explain and to convince playmates of their ideas, practice regulating emotions by pretending to be afraid, angry, brave and so on… (Berger, 2009, p. 287).” Through pretend play, children are able to think for themselves and discover new ideas that will help them be independent. They can learn to solve problems, build social skills, and negotiate with classmates. Thus, Piaget stated that during preoperational stage children use symbols through objects to represent something else. For example, “pretend play leads to the use of symbols, the recombining of ideas, and the manipulation of object representations, which are part of transformation ability and insight ability, both creative skills (Hoffman et al, 2011, p. 175).” During pretend play, children are given the gift to create their own environment by using symbols as well as their imagination. Children learn the most when they enjoy what they are doing. Above all, Piaget’s cognitive stage clarifies that children stretch their minds when they use their imaginations to create a different world.
Psychologist Jean Piaget developed a stage theory of intellectual development that included four distinct stages: the