EDCI 320 Ch 3

Within chapter 3 the knowledge base of teachers has changed from the days when they were only required to have passed the grade they were teaching. TO the standards we have today of full college degrees and constant recertification. Chapter 3 goes on to cover the idea of what learning is. Our book defines learning as what happens when there is a relatively permanent change in an individual’s knowledge or behavior. The book continues to support this idea with a quick overview of different schools of psychology in regards to leaning.
Starting with Behavioralist explains how learning occurs as positive and negative reinforce to schema. If something works one out of ten times but one out of the ten time there will be a prize that is better than the nine punishments then there will be a reinforcement to the action. This idea is that learning is stimulated by outside forces based on the accumulations of the knowledge of value.
Cognitive psychologist- the book defines it as an internal mental process. A systematic compilation of associations built up by experience.
The last one they touch on is constructivism the authors idea of the blending of these two schools of thought. This is the most logical by all standards and most congruent when assessing the develompment of thought. There are also new ideas out there such as Gardeners multiple intelligences and connectivism and many others. All of these different isums hold different aspects of the militaries FM 22-100 leadership and its 47 ways to lead. But forty-seven is a lot for us to take in so, Gardner rains supreme with his seven ways to learn.
Understanding where we come from and how things have progressed from the 1800 is great to see. Understanding that for many schools around the world it wasn’t the same as it was in the colonies of America as states were forming. Europe’s school systems were established. They may have been segregated by class but established. Will we define the existence of our education system solely on the past 150-years of the United States western educational system? Will we limit our teaching methods to what is quickest and easiest or will we decided to provide the most beneficial education for our students?