Establishing a New Communityby Luis E. Troncoso

Deconstructing a Learning Activity

My Audience

• 3RD Grade Students

• Class includes ten girls and ten boys

• Their intellectual abilities are tested in various methods

Instructional GoalExpand Students’ Understanding of Communities by…

1. Identify Community Needs

2. Select community leaders

3. Establish community rules

Meeting Activity Objectives

CommunicateConfidence

Responsible

Enhancing Social Skills

Participate

ShareIdeas

Build Background Knowledge

• Teacher lesson on communities

• Whole group discussions of our local community

• Assign tasks

• “Community at Work”

• “What is a Community?”

• “City, Suburb, and Rural Communities”

• Presentation by Police officer

• Presentation from our school principal

• Presentation by a store manager

stores schoolspolice

city mayor

parks

Establishing Community NeedsActivity 1

What do we need and why?

Theoretical BasisActivity 1

Albert Bandura’s Social Learning Theory and Vicarious Reinforcement

• Students’ personal experience

• Observation and Response

• Observational Learning Model

Selecting Community LeadersActivity 2

Students vote to select a group leader

Group and whole class leaders are elected

Task

Theoretical BasisActivity 2

Erikson’s…

• Industry vs. Inferiority

• Sense of Independence

• Sense of Connectedness

Selecting Community RulesActivity 3

1.Thieves will go to jail

2. Bike riding rules

3. Everyone must obey street signs

• Teacher guided discussion on Rules

• Groups select Rules to follow

• Each group creates a list

• A final list of rules will be establish

ExamplesTasks

Theoretical BasisActivity 2

If someone steals… they go to jail

Vygotsky’s Cognitive Tools

Flavell’s Metacognition

work of art

language

forms of numeration

and counting

symbolic playing or acting

writing

Human Development and Learning

• How do my students learn from this experience?Students learn from society

• How does this experience improve the conduct, or behavior, of one homo sapiens to another by participating in these activities?

Students are socializing

• How are the goals and values of your society passed on by this experience?

Society’s commitment for continued Education

Cooper, Sunny. (2009). Theories of learning in educational psychology John Flavell: Metacognition. Retrieved from http://www.lifecircles-inc.com/Learningtheories/constructivism/flavell.html

Gajdamaschko, N. (2006). Theoretical concerns: Vygotsky on imagination development. Educational Perspectives, 39(2), Retrieved from http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ877685.pdf

References

Watson, M. (Presenter). (2002) Social Sciences: Theories of Human Development [DVD] United States: Davidson Films, Inc.

Stonebarger, T., (Producer), Dunton, T., (Director). (2002) Theories of Human Development [Motion Picture] United States: Davidson Films, Inc.

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