Introduction When starting out as a teacher, enrollment in teacher education courses provided frameworks of different theoretical perspectives to one day use in our own classrooms. It may not have been such a big deal when sitting in those undergrad classes, yet as my education continues and being a classroom teacher, theoretical perspectives are the backbone of teaching and learning. Being a science teacher brings another element, which is the adoption and integration of STEM disciplines to create a new level of learning experiences. In order to analyze a variety of theoretical perspectives, I will use the physics topic of kinematics because it includes all the disciplines of STEM. Kinematics is science of describing the motion of all objects in a variety of ways. The subtopics within
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I will examine and analyze the five theoretical perspectives, including pedagogy, andragogy, multiple intelligences theory, social learning theory, and exchange theory in relation to kinematics.
Theoretical Perspectives Each theory has its own perspective of how others learn or should be taught, yet some have similar attributes. Using kinematics as a topic, the five different theoretical perspectives will be analyzed. Pedagogy is the learning theory for teaching children by having a teacher-centered learning community where the teacher assumes all responsibility of determining when, how, and what will be taught inside the classroom (Feighny, 2017). For a kinematics topic, this would be a teacher following a sequence of material they believe is the best format, with activities, lessons, and applications set up when they think the students need to learn it. The teacher is the center of the discussion and learning, telling students what they need to know. Andragogy is a learning theory geared towards adult learning, yet can also be a practice for teaching adolescents. Andragogy is based off of five assumptions for learners, which include
I will examine and analyze the five theoretical perspectives, including pedagogy, andragogy, multiple intelligences theory, social learning theory, and exchange theory in relation to kinematics.
Theoretical Perspectives Each theory has its own perspective of how others learn or should be taught, yet some have similar attributes. Using kinematics as a topic, the five different theoretical perspectives will be analyzed. Pedagogy is the learning theory for teaching children by having a teacher-centered learning community where the teacher assumes all responsibility of determining when, how, and what will be taught inside the classroom (Feighny, 2017). For a kinematics topic, this would be a teacher following a sequence of material they believe is the best format, with activities, lessons, and applications set up when they think the students need to learn it. The teacher is the center of the discussion and learning, telling students what they need to know. Andragogy is a learning theory geared towards adult learning, yet can also be a practice for teaching adolescents. Andragogy is based off of five assumptions for learners, which include