Piaget Activities In The Classroom. A focus on the process of thinking and learning not just its final products. Plan a variety of classroom activities that accommodate different learning styles such as visual or auditory.
To apply jean piaget s theories in the classroom the university of arkansas suggests these six steps to structure preoperational development. The following sections summarize how piaget s theory of cognitive development can be applied to your classroom while. For example the notion of discovery learning stemmed from piaget s theory wherein children learn best through learning that allows active exploration.
Piaget encouraged independent hands on learning and opportunities for discovery.
However they do so at different rates because of this teachers should put more effort to arrange classroom activities for groups of children and individuals rather than for the whole class group. Rather than pressuring every child to adapt to one learning style pay attention to each child s developmental stages and adapt the lessons accordingly. Make instructions relatively short using actions as well as words. When they can achieve what piaget called equilibrium they can then move forward to again advance their knowledge.