UNIVERSITY OF SAINT LOUIS

Tuguegarao City

SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTANCY, BUSINESS and HOSPITALITY

Second Semester A.Y. 2022-2023

COURSE LEARNING MODULE

PMTA 1013 – Principles and Methods of Teaching Accounting

Lesson 2: Learning Theories

Topic: Learning Theories

1. Learning Theories according to various authors.
2. Principles of teaching based from the principles of learning

Learning Outcomes:  Explain the basics of teaching principles.

 Identify and discuss the different principles underlying teaching and learning.

LEARNING CONTENT

After browsing over what the Teaching Profession is, the fundamental principles in teaching, and the elements
of teaching and learning, we also look into the principles of teaching as postulated by various authors.

Teaching Principles

 Guides to make teaching and learning effective, wholesome and meaningful

 Areas of teaching principles
1. Respect for the individual
- Create a friendly, cooperative and sympathetic learner-teacher relationship
2. Democracy as a way of life
- Help the learners solve problems meaningful to them.
3. Providing suitable condition for development and maintenance of a sound personality
4. Improving group living in the classroom
- Create techniques for group leadership
5. Improving the classroom environment
- Provide a maximum degree of best condition conducive to learning.

LEARNING – active process of modifying behavior through experience or practice.

 Learning processes
- Classical conditioning
- Operant conditioning
- Social learning
- Cognitive learning

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  Learning involves individual variations in experiences, attitudes, abilities and goals. Motives and drives
spring up goals.
 Learning takes the form of abstract or concrete level.
 Learning curves involves various dimensions of psychological and mental activities. Motivation and
learning ability are factors.

LEARNING THEORIES in EDUCATION

https://teacherofsci.com/learning-theories-in-education/

Theory Proponent
Behaviorism John Watson and BF Skinner.
Salivating Dog Pavlov
Operant Conditioning Thorndike
Assertive Discipline Lee Canter
Assertive Teacher Model Bill Rogers
Classroom Management Rudolph Dreikur
Cognitivism
Development not Learning Jean Piaget
Social Learning Lev Vygotsky
Bloom’s Taxonomy Benjamin Bloom
Conditions of Learning Robert Mills Gagne
Gestalt Psychology Wolfgang Kohler

Constructivism
Spiral Curriculum Jerome Bruner
Hierarchy of Needs Maslow
Multiple Intelligences Howard Gardner
8 Stages of Psychological Development Erik Erickson
Experiential Learning Theory David Kolb
Peter Principle Lawrence Peter
Sensory Theory Dugan Laird

Humanism Carl Rogers, Erasmus

Essentialism William Bagley
Progressivism John Dewey
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 Perennialism Robert Hutchkins
Existentialism Jean Paul Sartre
Naturalism JJ Rousseau
Idealism Socrates, Plato
Realism Aristotle
Pragmatism Charles Sander Pierce
Nationalism Jonathan Herbart
Reconstructivism Theodore Brameld

Utilitarianism
Rationalism
Empiricism
Experimentalism
Hedonism
Epicurilism

Supplemental Reading:
1. https://teacherofsci.com/learning-theories-in-education/
2. https://web.augsburg.edu/~erickson/edc490/downloads/comparison_edu_philo.pdf

Have a fruitful learning.

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REFERENCES

Textbooks

1. Bilbao, P., Corpuz, B., Llagas, A., Salandanan, G. (2015). The Teaching Profession. Lorimar
Publishing Inc.
2. Corpuz, B., Salandanan, G. (2015). Principles of Teaching. Lorimar Publishing Inc.
3. Gagalang, J., Lumaria, F., Orante, M. 2014). Principles of Teaching 1. Jimczyville Publications.
4. Lim, L., Caubic, R., Casihan, L. (2014). The Teaching Profession. Adriana publishing Co. Inc

Online Reference

1. https://teacherofsci.com/learning-theories-in-education/
2. https://web.augsburg.edu/~erickson/edc490/downloads/comparison_edu_philo.pdf

Assessment

1. Create a matrix showing the interrelationships among the various learning

theories.
2. Submit a concept map that articulates the various Teaching Principles.

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