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Week 6 Blog

1. Choose one of the learning theories and find an example. Explain the details of the 
example and use additional resources.

There are so many learning theories and some of them are very similar which can cause confusion.  I have chosen to write about the “Montessori” learning theory for a couple of reasons.  One, I know very little about this theory and wanted to learn about it and two, I all my nieces and nephews attended a Montessori school and because I’m originally from another country, I never did understand how they were learning.  The Montessori theory emphasizes independent and individual learning.  It views education as a cooperative and harmonic development, basing the learning in each student’s individual learning pace.  This theory was developed by Italian teacher and physician, Maria Montessori. 

In this theory, children explore learning freely and use a hands-on approach to learning.  The learning environment is very important in this theory and only the material the teacher wants the children to learn is made available in the learning environment.  The learning material should have characteristics that are of interests to different age children.  In this learning environment, the teacher prepares the learning environment and the children are given choices.  Children learn in multi-age groups and are able to help one another in learning.  There are four planes throughout the children development progress.  The first plane is infancy (birth-6 years), the second is childhood (6-12 years), the third is adolescence (12-18 years) and the fourth one is transition to adulthood (18-24 years).  The biggest difference between this learning theory and others is that the teacher less prominent and she/he is there to aid the child in their independent learning. 


2. Complete a blog entry about what you have learned in Week 4 & 5. 

In week 4 and 5, we have focused mainly on creating a needs analysis for our client.  We split the work and we were all responsible for different areas of the document.  We each agreed to take on what we felt comfortable doing.  Although this worked very well for us, we have decided that for our next group projects, we will work on areas that we are less knowledgeable about so that we become better-rounded. 

In week 5, I started playing around with Canvas and so far I’m very happy with the LMS.  The only issue I have encountered is how links to websites do not work properly but other than that, everything has been going smoothly.  I am excited to get going developing the course and seeing the final product.  I know my group will work very hard at providing our client with a good final product. 

References

Montessori Method (Montessori). (2017, February 04). Retrieved February 20, 2017

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