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Application of Learning Theories Learning Activities
Application of Learning Theories Learning Activities
Individual work:
These learning activities have been designed to guide you in exploring different learning
materials that have been proposed for this unit. You will also draw on the other literature on
learning theories and the courses in trimester one.
1. There are some variations between behaviourism, cognitivism of Piaget and the sociocultural
theory of Vygotsky. Using the table below, compare these theoretical perspectives by selecting a
corresponding option number (e.g. 1, 2, 3, etc.) and align it in an appropriate column depending
on the aspect it describes.
Learning 4 1 3
Teaching 1 2 3
Role of Teacher 3 1 2
Role of Peers 2
3
Role of Student 1 3 2
2. Teaching and learning situations are described to illustrate applications of different theories
of learning and teaching. Read them carefully. For each situation or scenario identify the theory
involved.
A) In her lesson, the teacher asks students questions about what they are ready to learn,
giving them opportunities to guess correct answers which engage them to prepare for new
learning experiences
_______constractivism______________________________________________
B) In her language teaching, teacher presents a set of related pictures that tells a story. In
group of 5, the learners are given a task to construct a story by describing what they see in the
pictures. __________________________________________________________
C) The teacher of History organizes a field trip. He takes his students to a museum and
exposes them to a real-world context of what they have been learning in class. After the field
trip, the learners share their experiences on their findings during the field trip in classroom.
______________Expriental learning____________________________
D) The teacher gives students an instructional video and asks them to watch it carefully
for 30 minutes. In the next part of the lesson they act roles to imitate what they have watched in
the video _________________behaviorism__________________________________
E) In a math lesson, teacher gives a sticker to the best performing students as recognition of
their performance. _________Behaviorism______________________________________