5.1 Chapter 5: Exploring Your Role in Fostering Children’s Learning Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

What was your least satisfying learning experience in school? 5.2 Learning Experiences What was your least satisfying learning experience in school? What was your most successful learning experience in school? Compare and contrast the two List the common features of the group’s successful learning experiences Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.3 Features of Authentic Learning Experiences Use children’s prior knowledge to spark their interest in meaningful, purposeful activities Promote strategic thinking Foster learning through social interactions Are based on each child’s ways of learning and displaying their knowledge Help children apply their learning to other situations Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.4 Facilitator Principles Teachers’ beliefs about learning affect children and their families Teachers create opportunities for co-learning Social interactions and shared experiences increase learning Teachers model and teach lifelong learning skills Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.5 Learner-Centered Experiences Meet the needs of diverse learners Based on brain research Focus on lifelong learning Enhance social and emotional competence as well as intellectual learning Are child-initiated and child directed Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.6 Characteristics of Play Symbolic Meaningful Pleasurable Voluntary & Intrinsically Motivating Rule-Governed Episodic Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.

5.7 Major Learning Theories Maturation Behavioral Social Learning Constructivist Multiple Intelligences Jalongo & Isenberg, Exploring Your Role, 3e Copyright © 2008 by Pearson Education, Inc. All rights reserved.