How children learn

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How children learn

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• Child Development
• LA Mission College

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Children learn from involvement

• 10 of what they read
• 20 of what they hear
• 30 of what they see
• 50 of what they see hear
• 70 of what they say
• 90 of what they do

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Children learn through

• play
• interacting with others within the environment
• manipulating things within the environment
• exploring cause and effect
• discovering what the world consists of
• using all of their senses

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Cognitive Styles

• Field-sensitive
• learns best with human, social interaction
• does well on verbal tasks
• is affected by others opinions
• Field-independent
• learns material that is inanimate impersonal
  more easily
• does well on analytic tasks
• performance not greatly affected by opinions of
  others

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Learning preferences - determined by the dominant
side of the brain


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Left-brained thinkers - have greater ability in
language, reading and phonics
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Right-brained thinkers

• have greater ability to communicate using body
  language
• have greater ability dealing with shapes and
  patterns, colors and hues
• are good at creative activities

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Teaching Methods/styles

• using cooperative activities
• working together to achieve a common goal
• using independent or individual activities
• expected to complete a task without assistance

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Teaching Methods/styles (cont)

• offering large group activities
• under the direction of the teacher
• offering exploratory activities
• teacher sets up environment ahead of time
• teacher supervises

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Teaching Methods/styles (cont)

• offering one-to-one teacher-child interaction
  activities
• offering integrative activities
• when two or more disciplines are incorporated
  into an activity

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Teachers must vary their teaching styles

• their interactions must be individually
  appropriate
• their interactions must be developmentally
  appropriate

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Take a moment to write in your own words how
children learn.