Schema: concept map to organize information
Assimilation: new information that fits into our already structured schema
Accommodation: new information that does not fit into our schema (rearrangement is needed)
Piaget's Stages
- Sensorimotor (babies-two years)- motor skills- hunger, emotion
- Preoperational (two-seven years)- beginning of language use- understands the world- egocentrism ("I")
- Concrete Operational (seven-eleven years)- reasoning through problems- mental operations that are reversible
- Formal Operational (eleven-fifteen years, through Adulthood)- abstract reasoning- hypothetical deductive reasoning, problem solving- new forms of egocentrism, adolescent egocentrism
- some children develop these stages slower or faster
- stages aren't necessarily so distinct - there is blending between stages that can occur
- training and cultural experiences can impact cognitive development
We have to take these concerns into consideration when dealing with children of all ages. Everyone develops and ages differently and we have to be respectful of their individuality. As a teacher you must be aware of where the children are, in terms of their development, and react in ways that will help them grow and continue to develop at a steady rate.
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