Piagets Cognitive Stages Patsy Hamby Jean Piaget 1896

Piaget’s Cognitive Stages Patsy Hamby

Jean Piaget • 1896 -1980 • Belief: – “Only education is capable of saving our societies from possible collapse, whether violent, or gradual. ” • Model of intellectual development – Cognitive Stages of Development – Affects elementary classroom instruction • Epistemology – The study of knowledge or theories about how we acquire knowledge

Stage 1: Sensorimotor • Birth to about age 2 • Leans about the environment through motor and reflex action • Thought derives from sensation and movement

Sensorimotor (cont’d) • Learns he is separate from the environment – Items continue to exist outside his reach • How to teach: – Gear toward the sensorimotor system • Frowning, stern voice, soothing voice • http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=VHFj. Fr 0 hk 2 g

Take 3 • Discuss with a classmate your experience with children at the sensorimotor stage of development.

Stage 2: Preoperational • From time child starts to talk to about age 7 • Child learns to use symbols to represent objects – Personifies objects • Able to think about items and events that are not immediately present • Assumes others see things from his viewpoint

Preoperational (cont’d) • Takes in information and changes his mind • Difficulty conceptualizing time • Best way to teach: – Take into account the child’s fantasies – Remember undeveloped sense of time – Provide tangibles – http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=GLj 0 IZFLKvg

Take 3 • Discuss with a classmate your experience with a child at the preoperational stage of development.

Stage 3: Concrete • About 1 st grade to early adolescence • Beginning of abstract thinking • Logic begins to take precedence over perception – Makes rational judgments about observable phenomena

Concrete (cont’d) • Best way to teach: – Provide opportunities for child to ask questions – Ask child to explain back to you to allow him to mentally manipulate information – http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=al. ZXo. ALQJr 4

Take 3 • Discuss with a classmate your experience with a child at the concrete stage of development.

Formal Operations • Adolescence • No longer requires concrete objects to make rational judgments • Capable of hypothetical and deductive reasoning • Best way to teach: – Provide different perspectives http: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=zj. Jdc. XA 1 KH 8

Take 3 • Discuss with a classmate which of the following types of reasoning you prefer: – Deductive: Teacher provides examples and leads students to naming the exact term. – Inductive: Teacher provides definition; students provide examples.

References • “Jean Piaget. ” Wikipedia. Retrieved Jan. 8, 2012 from wikipedia. com • “Piaget’s Cognitive Stages. ” Springhouse, 1990. Retrieved Jan 8, 2012 from honolulu. hawaii. edu