Bandura
"Social Learning Theory" - Behavior can be learned through the observations of others. theorist
Bruner
Discovery learning and constructivism. theorist
Dewey
Learning Through Experience and father of progressive education. theorist
Piaget
4 Stages of Cognitive Development.

theorist

vygotsky
Zone of Proximal Development "social development theory of learning" theorist
Kohlberg
Theory of moral development (pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional). theorist
Bloom
Taxonomy of Educational Objectives (cognitive, performance, and affective domains) theorist
Thorndike
Learning theorist. Law of Effect. theorist
Watson
Founder of behaviorism.

theorist.

Skinner
pioneer of Operant conditioning - believed everything we do is determined by our past history of reinforcements and punishments. theorist
Erikson
8 stages of human development. theorist.

Metacognition
thinking about how you think
Schema
an organized cluster of knowledge about a particular object or event abstracted from previous experience with the object or event.
Transfer
The ability to apply a lesson learned in one situation to a new situation.
Self-efficacy
A belief that one is capable.
Self-Regulation
the ability to control one's learning or behavior
zone of proximal development
a range of tasks too difficult for the child to do alone but possible with the help of adults and more skilled peers.

Operant conditioning
A method of influencing behavior by rewarding desired behaviors and punishing undesired ones
Classical Conditioning
A type of learning in which a neutral stimulus acquires the ability to evoke a response that was originally evoked by another stimulus.
Cognitive thinking
How we encode, process, store, and retrieve information.THINKING, PROBLEM SOLVING, PERSONAL INTERPRETATION OF ONE'S WORLD.
Americans with disabilities act
passed by congress in 1990 to give protection to people with disabilities.
Cognitive development
the development of thinking, problem solving, and memory.
information processing
the methods by which we take in, analyze, store, and retrieve material
cycle maps
Used when a teacher wants students to understand the cyclical nature of a text.

cause and effect maps
type of graphic organizer: helps students identify causes and effects in narrative or expository texts.
modeling
Process of observing and imitating a specific behavior
Standards-Based Instruction
Use backwards design to planning for standards-based instruction. Ask yourself three questions:1. What do students need to know and be able to do?2. How will you assess what students know and are able to do?3.

What goes into planning the lesson?

reciprocal determinism
the effect environment has on behavior and cognition(thoughts) created by Bandura
Cognitivism Theor
concepts include schema, information processing, and mapping.
Social Learning Theory
modeling, reciprocal determinism, and vicarious learning.
Constructivism
problem based learning, scaffolding, verbalization, increasing complexity, discovery learning, and zone of proximal development
Behaviorism
conditioning, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards, reinforcement, and punishment.
Scope and sequence
blank is what you are covering and blank is when you are covering it.
Critical thinking
rationally deciding what to believe or what to do.
creative thinking
thinking "outside the box", innovating
Inductive and deductive reasoning
blank process of examining a series of know occurrences and drawing a general conclusion.

blank- deriving of a conclusion by reasoning.

Scaffolding
process in which a more skilled learner gives help to a less skilled learner, reducing the amount of help as the less skilled learner becomes more capable
Homogeneous grouping
An educational practice in which students of similar abilities are placed within the same instructional groups.
Heterogeneous grouping
A strategy that groups students of varied ability instead of by grade/age level.
Cooperative learning
small groups of classmates work toward common goals
Collaborative learning
Students working in groups to solve problems together.
criterion-referenced scoring
an individuals performance on an assessment is compared to a predetermined, external standard, rather than to the performance of others
norm-referenced scoring
Compares a student's score to a group of other students who have taken the test
Maslow
humanistic, hierarchy of needs