What does it take to be an effective teacher in the year

2010 and beyond.Blah blah blah

Understanding Development

• Cognitive development• Behaviourism • Cognitive Learning Theory  and Social Cognitive Theory• Constructivism

Cognitive Development

Piaget’s Theory - The Four Stages of Development

Vygotsky’s Theory

-      A sociocultural view

-     Zone of Proximal

Development

-       Scaffolding

Behaviourism

Cognitive Learning

• Cognitive Learning Theory

• Social Cognitive Learning

Constructivism

• Cognitive Students construct their own

knowledge

• Social Students construct knowledge through social interaction then internalise it individually (Eggen & Kauchak, 2010)

WHO ARE YOU?What is the nature of the 21st century learner?

Collaborative

Adaptive

Creative

Information, media and technology savvy

Communicator

Require instant gratification

Multi-tasker. .

DIGITAL NATIVES

• Our students have changed radically. Today’s students are no longer the people our educational system was designed to teach.

HOW DO WE TEACH YOU?

Learner Diversity Culture & Language

Culture & ethnicity influence learning

through the attitudes, values, patterns of

interaction that students bring to school, which are

characteristic of their culture.