1. 5.1 Chapter 5: Exploring Your Role in Fostering Children’s Learning
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2. What was your least satisfying learning experience in school?
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
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3. 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
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4. 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
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5. 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
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6. 5.6 Characteristics of Play
Symbolic
Meaningful
Pleasurable
Voluntary & Intrinsically Motivating
Rule-Governed
Episodic
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7. 5.7 Major Learning Theories
Maturation
Behavioral
Social Learning
Constructivist
Multiple Intelligences
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