Teaching and Learning: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship, Exercises of English

Download Teaching and Learning: A Mutually Beneficial Relationship and more Exercises English in PDF only on Docsity! MODULE 3 Activity: Elaborate on the quotation found below. “Teaching is not about filling up the pail; it is about lighting a fire” Everyone in the learning community is a learner, not just the student. To teach allows you to learn and that when you learned well, you can teach well. There is mutuality in learning. Students learn from teachers. Students learn from another. And more important for you to remember, teachers learn from the student. Being a teacher is not an easy job. A teacher takes great patience strength, courage, a great deal of self sacrifice compassion, intelligence, humour, kindness, generosity and most of all a caring heart. Discuss the following: 1. Defend or challenge criticisms of Piaget’s theory. - A major criticism stems from the very nature of a stage theory. The stages may be inaccurate or just plain wrong. Weiten (1992) points out that Piaget development of young children. Others point out that preoperational children may be less egocentric than Piaget believed. 2. Compare the concepts of Vygotsky and Chomsky on Language development. - Chomsky’s theory states that children have the innate biological ability to learn language; however this theory has not been supported by genetic or neurological studies. Vygotsky’s theory of language development focused on social learning and the zone of proximal development.