Unit 2-Focus On Laerner: Module Overview
Unit 2-Focus On Laerner: Module Overview
Unit 2-Focus On Laerner: Module Overview
Module No.2
MODULE OVERVIEW
Development is the series of age-related changes that happen throughout a life span.
Several famous psychologists, including Sigmund Freud, Erik Erikson, Jean Piaget, and Lawrence
Kohlberg, describe development as a series of stages. A Stage is a period in development in which
people exhibit typical behavior patterns and establish particular capacities. The various stage
theories share three assumptions:
People pass through stages in a specific order, with each stage building on capacities developed in
the previous stage. Stages are related to age. Development is discontinuous, with qualitatively
different capacities emerging in each stage.
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
LEARNING CONTENTS
Jean Piaget's theory of cognitive development suggests that children move through four
different stages of mental development. His theory focuses not only on understanding how children
acquire knowledge, but also on understanding the nature of intelligence.
Erik Erikson was an ego psychologist who developed one of the most popular and
influential theories of development. While his theory was impacted by psychoanalyst Sigmund
Freud's work, Erikson's theory centered on psychosocial development rather than psychosexual
development.
B. Student Diversity
The following 14 psychological principles pertain to the learner and the learning process.
3. Construction of Knowledge
> the successful learner can link new information with existing knowledge inmeaningful ways.
Knowledge widens and deepens as students continue to build links betweennew information and
experiences and their existing knowledge base.
4. Strategic Thinking
> the successful learner can create and use a repertoire of thinking and reasoningstrategies to
achieve complex learning goals. Successful learners use in their approach to learning
reasoning, problemsolving, and concept learning
6. Context of Learning
> Learning is influenced by environmental factors, including culture, technologyand instructional
practices.
> Effort is another major indicator of motivation to learn. The acquisition ofcomplex knowledge
and skills demands the investment of considerablelearner energy and strategic effort, along
with persistence over time.
learning process.
LEARNING POINTS
A learning continuity plan seeks to ensure that students’ learning progresses even amidst
disasters such as natural calamities, storms, fires, and pandemics. This plan overcomes obstacles
created by the disasters through innovative means of teaching and learning, keeping students on
track with their courses. With today’s COVID-19 pandemic, the main obstacle that has to be
overcome is the need for social distancing, making face-to-face interaction impossible. Therefore,
any learning continuity plan to be implemented today has to account for this limitation.
A widely applied approach to second or foreign language teaching and training that
addresses immediate and very specific needs of learners who need that language as a tool in their
education, training, or job. Needs analysis is the underlying "driver" for the development of LSP
programs. For example, English native speaking nurses who work in hospitals with a high
percentage of patients whose native language is Spanish might have to study Spanish for the very
specific purpose of communication between nurses and patients. Students are encouraged to take
active roles in their learning and question what they have been taught. This is likened to negotiated
syllabus about which Hyland (2009) writes, "A negotiated syllabus means that the content of a
particular course is a matter of discussion between teacher and students, according to the wishes
and needs of the learners in conjunction with the expertise, judgment, and advice of the teacher"
LEARNING ACTIVITIES
Review Exercises
Essay
1. Examine the meaning of learner and applied it to the Centered Psychological Principle?
REFERENCES
Maryellen Weimer
Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice
Dale H. Schunk
Learning Theories: An Educational Perspective