Piaget's Stage Theory Analysis

The affects that a teacher has on his or her students are clear and unparalleled. Any teacher would benefit from bringing the works of Piaget, Vygotsky and other sociocultural theorists into the classroom. After graduating from concurrent education, I hope to become a teacher for primary-junior classrooms, specifically between junior kindergarten and grade three. As I hope to be teaching children between the ages of five and ten, I will need to be especially articulated on the topics of the development of learning skills in children. My students will not be fully cognitively developed, so it will be my job to further assist in their acquisition of skills and growth as learners, conversationalists and social beings. By utilizing Piaget’s …show more content…
As I hope to be teaching children between the ages of seven and nine, my focus is on the concrete operational stage of the stage theory. Because at this stage the children are unable to think systematically or abstractly, the teachers must be very understanding and come up with a number of ways to explain specific information to ensure that each student can grasp every concept easily.
In addition to understanding what was successful about Piaget’s theories, it is important for teachers to appreciate the criticisms related to Piaget as well. Piaget’s theories consider children as consistent thinkers, however in real life this is not always the case. Because Piaget’s theory is lacking this reliable information, it would be more difficult to accommodate for every child because it is unclear how consistently children think. Often children do not think as reliably as suggested, and it is extremely important for teachers to be considerate of …show more content…
Vygotsky’s internalization-of-thought process, he postulated that thought is just a version of internalized speech, which begins as being controlled by other people, and then develops to be controlled by their own private speech, where a child is beginning to use his or her own abilities by telling themselves what to do, to the final step where they think exclusively internally is not a useful tool for the classroom. This process, taking place between the ages of four and six, would be very disruptive in a classroom full of children, and would not help me as a future educator to control and help my class. This can, however, help adults to identify the step that a child’s thought process is at and use this to help the individual