1. Cognitive Learning
Theory
Allyson W.

2. Menu
What is cognitivism?
Who is Jean Piaget and Lev
Vygotsky?
How cognitive learning is used in
classrooms.
In my classroom how cognitive
learning will be used.
The end

3. What?
 Cognitivism: is the theory that humans
generate knowledge and meaning
through sequential development of an
individual’s cognitive abilities.
 What else?

4. What Else?
 Cognitive abilities: refers to the mental
process that includes:
attention, remembering, producing and
understanding language, solving problems,
and making decisions.
 Who studied this?

5. Who?
 Jean Piaget : a French-speaking Swiss
developmental psychologist and
philosopher known for his studies with
children.
 According to Piaget, the ability to learn a
concept is related to a child’s stage of
intellectual development.
 Who else thought this?

6. Who Else?
 Lev Vygotsky: was a pioneering
psychologist, who investigated child
development.
 He observed how higher mental functions
developed through social interactions.
 How is this done in a classroom?

7. How?
 Inthe classroom we can use cognitive
learning by :
 Role playing
 Math equations
 Experiments
 Puzzles
 How else?

8. How?
 Zone of proximal development : the
range of tasks that a child can complete
independently and those completed with
the guidance and assistance of adults or
more-skilled children.
 The guidance of a more skilled individual
promotes cognitive development.
 How I can use this in my classroom?

9. In my classroom we will have:
 Scavenger hunts on the internet: students
search for their answers and locate them
on their own.
 Mentor program: incorporate the ZPD
What else in my classroom?

10. In my classroom we will have
• Word Puzzles: to challenge their minds.
• Experiments: to make them think outside
of what they may already know.
• Games with memory: help them build
their memorizations skills.
• The End!

11. The End
Thank you...
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