Teaching Practice Task 4: From Theory to Practice

Program link: This task is associated to the guidelines of the course EPR 3003 – Mathematics for the Primary
School Teacher Course learning outcomes 2 – Recognize the relationship between how children learn
mathematics with the theories of learning and their psychological impact on learning math.

Objective: You will identify teaching and learning activities that can be related to behaviorist and constructivist
theories. You will note at least ten activities (for English, Math or Science) that the teacher or you used. For each
activity noted, identify the theoretical perspective and evaluate the activity for engagement.

Activity observed in Theory Engagement

class

1. Vygotsky –
Math: Students Piaget This activity was very engagement for the students
must find different because they can move around and find the shapes,
3D shapes. This either they like it a lot.
activity was in
pairs. Because
when they will find
the shape like
cylinder, students
will discuss about
it

2. Piaget
Science: teacher Students were highly engagement. Because, this
put different activity has different things to do, like listing,
sounds of animals talking, drawing.
and they must Also the students understand what they will do
figure it as groups because its groups work.
and draw the
animal claws.

3. Science: this Piaget –

activity in groups Vygotsky I can tell that students were engaged because of
of 6 girls. Each their work you can see that they enjoyed doing this
group will have an activity.
animal. And they Its creativity, they will use their imagination.
will draw which
climate this animal
lives in.

4.

1
 Math: This activity This activity was at the beginning of lesson, some
called “add the students didn’t understand the activity although
numbers in ten’s teacher Najla explain it twice. They didn’t know the
and ones”. difference between the tens and ones.

5.
Arabic: This Each student has an iPad. They download the
activity was in ministry of education app. And click to Arabic so
apps called “lets they can choose the lesson for today and start the
learn the alphabet activity. This was little confusing for the students.
latter’s” Because I have some students they don’t know how
to read so they didn’t know what to do, they kept
annoying their peers to help them.
Some were enjoyed and some ware not.

6. Piaget
Math: Find the This lesson was to find the numbers by adding even
average by numbers, for example, “find two numbers you will
creating a balance add them it will give you (16)”
scale. By using So they will create a balance scale and will add 8
even numbers cubes in each if it was equal so the answer is
only. correct.
First student were engage when they create but
after they get bored because it was too easy for
them because they know if they used odd numbers
the answer will be wrong.