Exploring Teaching, Learning and Schooling

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Exploring Teaching, Learning and Schooling

• Created and presented by
• Desiree Solso

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What is Teaching, Learning and Schooling?

• The responsibility of the teacher is to
• provide the materials, the environment,
• and the guidance needed to assist
• students in constructing their own
• concepts
• (Cavallo, A. Marek, E.)

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Learning is

• Learning is
• intrinsic knowledge
• (Plato, 1995, trans)
• A child learns from
• their environment
• (Skinner, 1971/2002 Singer Revenson, 1996
  Rousseau,
• 1968/2006 Wertsch, 1995)
• Behavior and
• experience in our
• environment
• Influences how a child
• learns

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Learning is

• Learning happens
• in stages
• Piaget-a child
• processes through
• stages in a
• sequential manner
• Vygotsky- Zone of proximal
• development, the stage at
• which where the person is
• at and their potential to
• develop

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Learning is

• Learning is
• connections in the brain
• that occurs across the
• synaptic gap in the
• growing and pruning of
• new dendrite structures
• Learning takes place when
• connections are made
• between the areas of the
• brain
• The brain is constantly
• changing

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Teaching is

• Understanding Diversity
• The question is not
• necessarily how to create the
• perfectly culturally matched
• learning situation for each
• ethnic group, but how to
• recognize where there is a
• problem for that particular
• child and how to see it cause
• (Delpit, 2006, p. 167)
• Identifying areas of privilege
• (Johnson, 2006)
• Misconceptions occur between the student and
  teacher
• (Alexie, 2007 Delpit, 2006 Lew, 2006 West,
  2001)

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Teaching is

• Interaction between
• the child and the
• environment
• (Skinner, 1971/2002 Wertsch, 1995)
• The child is their
• own teacher
• (Skinnger Revenson, 1996)

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Teaching is

• Understanding
• brain development
• Differences between
• the male and
• female brain
• Teaching styles need to
• be adjusted to meet the
• needs of all students
• (Gurian, 2005)

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Schooling is

• An institution of
• learning
• Can be either in a
• traditional school
• or their
• environment
• Influential system
• for students in a
• positive or negative
• way

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Schooling is

• An institution
• where change can
• happen
• against oppression
• against discrimination
• Embracing
• diversity and
• understanding
• differences

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