Kahoot Assessments

Jean Piaget sought to understand and explain to others how the brain changes from birth until the mid-teens. There are so many huge developments during those years and Piaget got them down to four stages. The four stages in Piaget’s Theory of Cognitive Development are the sensorimotor stage, preoperational stage, concrete operational stage, and formal operational stage. These stages cover things such as reflexes to adolescent egocentrism. (Santrock)

Children are very complex, unique and varied individuals whose genetics, connections and backgrounds all perform significant roles in their emotional development (Wilson, 2003). The genetic blueprint a child inherits from its parents may plot a course for development but the environment and the influences within can affect how the child is shaped, how they connect with and are perceived by others and how their emotions are or are not expressed. Wilson (2003) points out emotions as an experience that is linked to cognitive interpretation, context, subjective feeling, physical reaction and behavioural expression. Campos, Campos, and Barrett (1989) suggest emotions are processes of establishing, maintaining, or disrupting the relations between the person and the internal or external environment, when such relations are significant to the individual.

In the article, Rae Ann Hirsh, analyses children that are identified for school failure and explores contemporary neuroscience and learning theory to identify curricular strategies for helping these children and making them successful in their academic future. The neuroscience has remarkable effects in the classrooms of young children and learning theory. The learning is a change in the brain when the child is learning and there is social contact with other people. This would lead to emotional signals that lead to symbols, language, abstract thinking, and social skills. If the emotional context of culture is not changing, then the symbolic thinking will not reach a cognitive milestone in child development. Emotions are the primary contemporary function of the neurons. These are associated with learning and are the foundation to begin the learning process in young children. Along with the chemical structure, emotions play additional roles in the brain growth in the first two years.

Pierce County has performed 4 MAPP assessments to determine how residents can achieve optimal health. Together, the 4 MAPP assessments will help the Pierce County health system devise a plan where residents can safely play, work and live together. Pierce County’s multitude of parks and recreation, and built environment is a noted asset in the CHSA and CTSA that are unfortunately underutilized by community residents. The Community Health Status Assessment (CHSA) confirms that there is a worsening trend in adult obesity and physical inactivity (countyhealthrankings.org, 2016). The Forces of Change Assessment (FOCA) and CHSA note that poverty plays a role in the health

Very young children’s emotions are mainly made up of physical reactions (heart racing, butterflies in stomach) and behaviours. As they grow, children

The question of assessment in the "school system, individual schools, and teachers has evoked strong and sometimes violent emotions from the educational community, the general public and their legislative representatives"(Brown & Knight, 1994). Assessment based on standardized tests has been looked at very closely over the recent years, and some people have even mentioned that they be eliminated completely. Those who feel traditional methods should be replaced by alternative methods. These people feel that demonstration, exhibition, investigation, oral response, portfolio, and written response's are all examples of

Uniquely cognition and emotional development appear to be connected by jointly working together. Furthermore, cognitive processes, such as decision making, are affected by emotion (Barrett and others 2007). Brain structures involved in the neural circuitry of cognition influence emotion and vice versa (Barrett and others 2007). Emotions and social behaviors affect the young child’s ability to persist in goal-oriented activity, to seek help when it is needed, and to

Piaget’s theory of cognitive development is the theory I will be using to analyse my first significant experience. According to Piaget’s theory of cognitive development, during childhood and adolescence, a child constructs an understanding of their environment by organising information into schemas, a schema is basically a group of ideas about an object or an experience. If the individual comes across an inconsistency, or an object or an experience that is unfamiliar, their cognitive balance is upset and they begin to seek cognitive balance, this process of seeking balance is called equilibration. They achieve this equilibration through Adaptation, by either

Supposedly, a time- and effort-saving device for teachers because then the materials and guidelines for teaching practice is readily available. But what about student’s learning potentials? If the teachers are teaching only for the test, there is an apparent neglect for the student’s creativity and opportunity for higher order of critical thinking. There will only be rote memorization making their learning experiences rather boring.

Unfortunately, a tense schooling environment and tightened curriculum expectations have led to Michael’s idea being turned away from regular classroom implementation. Michael has, however, received an invitation for his team’s game to be introduced and used in higher end pre-ap courses. On the advice of multiple teachers and administrators, Michael has decided to re-work the product and test it through pre-ap courses before trying to reapply it for regular classrooms.

Children’s mental health is a very important part of learning because children need to be able to control their emotions and behaviors in order to function in developmentally appropriate ways. Mental health refers to children’s abilities to understand and manage their emotions and behaviors, to function positively with others in age appropriate and developmentally appropriate ways, and to form meaningful relationships (Amador, Daeschel, and Sorte, Pg. 416). Children are emotional rollercoasters and each one learn from adults on how to handle certain things as they grow up from the time they are

Just as brain-based early learning programs develop and strengthen neurological progress, inadequate and incompetently structured curriculum can interfere with brain functions, delaying learning and social-emotional development (Rushton, Rushton, and Larkin). Early childhood education involves activities and experiences that are planned to influence developmental changes in children preceding their entry into elementary school, although not “all programs in early childhood education are equally effective in promoting the learning and development of young children” (Swartout-Corbeil). The neurological link between emotions and learning is the foundation for attracting and sustaining students’ attention (Rushton, Rushton, and Larkin). Positive and negative emotions can trigger the release of hormones and neurotransmitters that can either stimulate the prefrontal lobe and enhance attention and learning, or inhibit the prefrontal lobe from relating and restrict attention and learning. The expansion of new technologies creates accountability for the classroom teacher

expression of thoughts and feelings, and physical demands. It all interacts with in there dynamic process. Children learn about

By age 11, I had increased thinking abilities that were due to Piaget’s last stage of cognitive development, formal operational. By this age I had the ability to think abstractly with hypothetico-deductive reasoning, I could problem solve based on certain hypothesis and I started to master deductive reasoning based on logical conclusions. I also developed propositional thought, a way of evaluating the logic of propositions without using real world situations. I definitely remember a gain in my information processing; increased attention, inhibition, strategies and knowledge that led me to come to conclusions based on logic. Psychologist David Elkind, expanded on Piaget’s cognitive-developmental theory. Elkind describes how young adolescents are preoccupied because they are going through major psychological changes within their body. Elkind noticed adolescents were self-conscious during this time of change. I can remember that I started to get embarrassed about the changes associated with my body. During this time period egocentrism is reappearing in our life, I became self-focused and self-absorbed, I was definitely a unique person in the world and I wanted everyone to know it. I can remember that I made rash decisions partly due to my frontal lobe not being fully developed. Looking back I probably drove too fast as a teenager and made some decisions I look back on now. Some of these consequences of the formal operational stage, recognized by Elkind, could create distortions in ones thinking during this time

A great outcome of the app revolution is the transformative learning that apps can help foster. There are thousands of education apps in the Windows marketplace, Apple store and Google play store. From early learning “games” to study aids and even apps that will help you manage the classroom, with more being published every day.