Ril, Rochelle R.

Facilitating Learning
1. Search for the key concepts associated with paigets?
JEAN PIAGET -Cognitive Developmental Theory
-Cognitive development involves changes in cognitive process and abilities.
In Piaget's view, early cognitive development involves processes based upon
actions and later progresses into changes in mental operations.
KEY CONCEPTS
Schemas - describes both the mental and physical actions involved in
understanding and knowing. Schemas are categories of knowledge that help us to
interpret and understand the world. It includes both a category of knowledge and
the process of obtaining that knowledge. As experiences happen, this new
information is used to modify, add to, or change previously existing schemas.
Example: A child may have a schema about a type of animal, such as a dog. If the
child's sole experience has been with small dogs, a child might believe that all
dogs are small, furry, and have four legs. Suppose then that the child encounters a
very large dog. The child will take in this new information, modifying the previously
existing schema to include this new information.
Assimilation - The process of taking in new information into our previously
existing schema's is known as assimilation. The process is somewhat subjective,
because we tend to modify experience or information somewhat to fit in with our
preexisting beliefs. In the example above, seeing a dog and labeling it "dog" is an
example of assimilating the animal into the child's dog schema.
Example: Imagine a young boy raised in a home that presents a stereotyped
schema about another social group. When the young man moves away to college,
he suddenly finds himself surrounded by people from this group. Through
experience and real interactions with members of this group, he realizes that his
existing knowledge is completely wrong. This leads to a dramatic change, or
accommodation, in his beliefs about members of this social group.
Accommodation does not just take place in children; adults also experience
this as well. When experiences introduce new information or information that
conflicts with existing schemas, you must accommodate this new learning in order
to ensure that what's inside your head conforms to what's outside in the real world.

Equilibration - Piaget believed that all children try to strike a balance

between assimilation and accommodation, which is achieved through a
mechanism Piaget called equilibration. As children progress through the stages of
cognitive development, it is important to maintain a balance between applying
previous knowledge (assimilation) and changing behavior to account for new
knowledge (accommodation). Equilibration helps explain how children are able to
move from one stage of thought into the next.
2. How will the various theorist or learning help the teacher facilitate the learning
process among the students?
Through this Piaget theory the teacher can adapt what the theories said. The
teacher will understand the process of Cognitive Developmental of one person. Therefore
she can easily apply it in their teaching. The teacher teach how much the capacity or
ability of the students to perform activities or task, by giving some activities it will retain
to the students what they learn from their teacher.