Early History
In the beginning, in 1904, Alfred Binet, a French psychologist, researched and focused on the relationship between memory and oral or visual methods and developed the first intelligence test that produced interest in individual differences. The study of learning styles in 1907 was the next step when Dr. Maria Montessori invented the Montessori method of education that uses materials to enhance the learning styles of her students. It is because through their actions that Dr. Montessori believed that her students will demonstrate mastery of subjects, not through a multiple-choice answer sheet.
The 1950s to 1970s
Before re-emerging in the 1950s, the study of learning styles declined for approximately 50 years. The decline was due …show more content…
Daniel Kolb published his own learning-style model, where he determined that learning styles are closely related to cognitive skills in 1984. Emphasis was p laced on having teachers address learning styles in the classroom through adjustments in the curriculum that incorporate each style, giving an equal chance for students to learn in the ‘90s.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy classified learning styles into six distinct levels of cognitive thinking: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation that was developed in 1956. Its structure was designed like a pyramid with evaluation at the top and knowledge on the bottom to stand as the foundation. Bloom's Taxonomy is no foreign in our classrooms today.
Kolb Model
According to David Kolb, the learning cycle consists of four stages: experiencing, reflecting, thinking and acting. The learner experiences the material reflects on its outcome, think about or assimilates the information and finally acts on the information. Acting can lead to experiencing, which starts the cycle over. Kolb designated each level with a unique name: diverger, assimilator, converger, and …show more content…
To provide the necessary motivation and direction, effective guidance and control and to evaluate success in teaching, the teacher must know educational psychology.
"The field of educational psychology embraces two disciplines, psychology and education", (Kelly, 1965). Educational psychology is that aspect of applied psychology in which facts, theories, and the hypothesis of the science of psychology are presented with reference particularly to their application and implementation in the school situation. As stipulated by the definition, an educational psychologist should know psychology and should be able to apply its principles in the teaching-learning process in and out of the classroom. Aquino, Gaudencio and Razon, Perpetua(1993)
"The usual traditional teaching aids are blackboards, textbooks, charts, pictures, posters, maps, atlases, globes, flash cards, flip cards, worksheets, science lab apparatus and materials, models, crossword puzzles, quizzes, storytelling, dramatization, one act plays, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, learning toys and abacus. These teaching tools are very common in our classrooms. They are inexpensive but seem to be outdated and sometimes considered by parents to be obsolete teaching tools." Montealto
In the beginning, in 1904, Alfred Binet, a French psychologist, researched and focused on the relationship between memory and oral or visual methods and developed the first intelligence test that produced interest in individual differences. The study of learning styles in 1907 was the next step when Dr. Maria Montessori invented the Montessori method of education that uses materials to enhance the learning styles of her students. It is because through their actions that Dr. Montessori believed that her students will demonstrate mastery of subjects, not through a multiple-choice answer sheet.
The 1950s to 1970s
Before re-emerging in the 1950s, the study of learning styles declined for approximately 50 years. The decline was due …show more content…
Daniel Kolb published his own learning-style model, where he determined that learning styles are closely related to cognitive skills in 1984. Emphasis was p laced on having teachers address learning styles in the classroom through adjustments in the curriculum that incorporate each style, giving an equal chance for students to learn in the ‘90s.
Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy classified learning styles into six distinct levels of cognitive thinking: knowledge, comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation that was developed in 1956. Its structure was designed like a pyramid with evaluation at the top and knowledge on the bottom to stand as the foundation. Bloom's Taxonomy is no foreign in our classrooms today.
Kolb Model
According to David Kolb, the learning cycle consists of four stages: experiencing, reflecting, thinking and acting. The learner experiences the material reflects on its outcome, think about or assimilates the information and finally acts on the information. Acting can lead to experiencing, which starts the cycle over. Kolb designated each level with a unique name: diverger, assimilator, converger, and …show more content…
To provide the necessary motivation and direction, effective guidance and control and to evaluate success in teaching, the teacher must know educational psychology.
"The field of educational psychology embraces two disciplines, psychology and education", (Kelly, 1965). Educational psychology is that aspect of applied psychology in which facts, theories, and the hypothesis of the science of psychology are presented with reference particularly to their application and implementation in the school situation. As stipulated by the definition, an educational psychologist should know psychology and should be able to apply its principles in the teaching-learning process in and out of the classroom. Aquino, Gaudencio and Razon, Perpetua(1993)
"The usual traditional teaching aids are blackboards, textbooks, charts, pictures, posters, maps, atlases, globes, flash cards, flip cards, worksheets, science lab apparatus and materials, models, crossword puzzles, quizzes, storytelling, dramatization, one act plays, dictionaries, encyclopedias, reference books, learning toys and abacus. These teaching tools are very common in our classrooms. They are inexpensive but seem to be outdated and sometimes considered by parents to be obsolete teaching tools." Montealto