Cognitive Apprenticeship

Cognitive Apprenticeship: An Overview

by Victoria Vasquez

National UniversityDr. Cynthia Sistek-ChandlerJune 2007 EDX 1201Assignment #2 : Unit 2 Learning Theory

Definition : Cognitive Apprenticeship

• Learning within a relationship with a more expert practitioner of the skill to be learned.

• A strategy for teaching complex mental behaviors to increase the emphasis on thinking or inquiry skills.

RESOURCE: Grabe, Mark; Grabe, Cindy. 2007 Integrating

Technology for Meaningful Learning. 5th edition. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company

• Involve students in learning as apprentices: work alongside students and/or set up situations that will cause students to begin to work on problems even before fully understanding them.

• A key aspect of an "apprenticeship" approach to teaching involves breaking the problem into parts so that students are challenged to master as much of a task as they are ready to handle.

RESOURCE: http://mathforum.org/~sarah/Discussion.Sessions/Collins.html

How to Initiate Cognitive Apprenticeship

• Web Quests

• How-To Lessons

• Designing Q &A

• Student Created PSA

• Creating Multimedia projects

• Software Tutorial

Technology Integration Strategies