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** Learning theories / styles of teaching… ** **How do they affect your instructional planning and implementation? How do you identify student needs within these theories and plans?**
Conducting an interest inventory, Gardner's Multiple Intelligence, & Bloom's Taxonomy. Looking at Jean Piaget's Theory of Pre-Operational, Operational, Concrete, & Abstract.

Gardner's Multiple Intelligences are used to differentiate prior to planning. It is based on student interest and learning styles. Curriculum lessons and units can be based on the results. Bloom's Taxonomy is used to create and differentiate learning experience for concrete and abstract objectives.

 constructivist vs. talk down

 the way you teach is going to affect the lesson

 understanding the students and their needs

 multiple ways of conceiving the instruction

 multiple learning styles

 socratic method of teach ing you need to have a full understanding of the different styles being able to organize the information before you even present it. multiple intelligences/UBD

how is this different than a discussion board? There is a lot more editing capabilities when using the computer You need to learn how to type/edit quickly Teaching the children how to write on the paper before you get them to use the technologies in order to have them learn how to organize their thinking. If we plan according to the different multiple intelligences, then we can differentiate learning experience for concrete and abstract objectives.

Bloom's taxonomy suggests that knowledge exists in a variety of forms. As long as we apply those formulas and ideas, then we can plan better lessons. It makes us vary the physical aspects of teaching Theory is derived from the empirical. Then we need to take that theory and use it in the classroom. Assessment informs the application of the theory It's important to make sure the students practice the theories that you're teaching and move around the room physically. We often have too much to teach in a small period of time that the students don't always synthesize the information if they don't have time to practice those skills

The practice comes naturally to some and makes sense, but in order to implement in practice is a much bigger challenge. Teachers need to remember, know, theorize, feel, but must also implement in an effective way.

The biggest idea that we've come away with is that students need some sort of movement, either orally, aurally, or physically