Procedural knowledge

All children have an inbuilt mathematical knowledge of some sorts in which it is possible for them to build on. Emergent mathematics is how we use to describe how children construct their maths knowledge. The principle of emergent mathematics is that children should be exposed to maths from the day they are born despite their age. Children are taught to use their previous knowledge to solve a maths problem. This helps children to understand how the problem has been solved and not given the…

During my semester I was given a focus child. Throughout this whole semester I observe and documented my focus child learning development and assess to see if she is developing correctly. She is two and half years old and she lives at home with her mother and father. As I observe my focus child I noticed her temperaments. She is very active and after sometime of seeing you she warms up to you, but at first she could be standoffish. She’s still a young toddler so her attention span is short, but…

subject knowledge is seen to be essential for effective teaching, Schulman, (1986,1987) Eraut,(1994), Turner-Bisset (2001).Throughout the processes of planning, assessment, differentiation or feedback, proficient subject knowledge is deemed vital. With the new National Curriculum, DfE.(2013) focusing strongly on the acquisition of knowledge, the need for teachers to sustain high levels of subject knowledge across the curriculum has never been more crucial. Demands on a teachers’ subject…

students. If too much scaffolding takes place by the teacher, the students are not able to make their own connections or form their own interpretations regarding the knowledge that is being presented (Frey & Fisher, 2010). This dependency on the teacher results in the student not drawing on their own experiences and prior knowledge to grow cognitively; they come to expect new concepts to be fed to them (Kirschner, Sweller, Clark,…

Interest calculation. I did this on purpose thus that they had time at the house to check and study the topic, and as a result they have few foundational understanding and knowledge of Compound Interest. I had couple of minute for chatting will whole class about this topic so that leaners could divulge their pre – existing knowledge on this topic. At the end of the session, I provided them learners could take and inquire their own learning in the course of the unit that students wanted. I…

Knowledge Is Power “READ! READ! READ!” It was at the top of almost all of my English teachers syllabi throughout high school. I enjoyed reading but I didn’t ever have much time to do so. I don’t think I understood the true importance of reading until now. Growing up I’ve always heard “the more you read, the more you know.” I found that rather cliché but I have come to find that it is the truth. In the essay “The Freedom Education Brings,” by Timmika Ross and the article “Reading Remains The…

Introduction Bloom’s taxonomy is a classification of knowledge a person acquires in a learning process. This article presents a design experience and developing educational tools under the pedagogical framework described by Bloom. Taxonomies are tools used by curriculum designers for presenting information and promoting students learning. Through specific taxonomies, learners should develop comprehension of the material for enhancing knowledge levels. Taxonomies act as guides for instructional…

that more and more knowledge comes to be accumulated. These knowledge get classified under different umbrella terms according to the elements of our world that they primarily deal with. Depending on which element of Academia they belong to, they naturally involve different manners of approach, understanding and outcomes. It is therefore inadvertent that different areas of knowledge (AOKs) will come to face distinctions between them so as to provide convenient glosses. Knowledge helps us gain…

confidence in their face when they explain a concept that is truly relevant to their understanding of the world around them? Inquiry-based teaching allows the student to ask questions relevant to their interest and helps fuel their desire to gain knowledge to answer those questions. According to Sweetland and Towns (2008), “When teachers choose to use an inquiry-based approach, they commit to provide rich experiences that provoke students’ thinking and curiosity; to plan carefully-constructed…

Having Jack as the narrator in the novel Room brings a juvenile point of view to the text that is avant-garde. Meaning that his point of view is innovative. It can be seen as controversial, where he is restricted as an observer, because his mind is not fully developed yet, and he is still learning. One might confuse this as unreliable. But the fact that Jack is an inexperienced individual in his setting, it is the tension in this that makes both him as the narrator and the story more compelling.…