Supporting Children's Learning A Guide for Teaching Assistants [Paperback]

Supporting Children's Learning: A Guide for Teaching Assistants explains all the key ideas on how children learn and how best to support children in that learning. Covering all major themes, this book offers an introduction to main theories of learning and development from birth to primary including brain and emotional and social development; an introduction to what motivates learners to learn, and how much learners understand about how learning takes place; a glossary of terms; and case studies, research summaries and tasks for reflection.Supporting Children's Learning: A Guide for Teaching Assistants explains all the key ideas on how children learn and how best to support children in that learning. Covering all major themes, this book offers an introduction to main theories of learning and development from birth to primary including brain and emotional and social development; an introduction to what motivates learners to learn, and how much learners understand about how learning takes place; a glossary of terms; and case studies, research summaries and tasks for reflection.How to Use This Book
1 - LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT
Theory, What's That?
The Big Themes
f003 Values and Beliefs
<i>Nativism Versus Empiricism?
Continuous or Discontinuous?
Stability or Change?
How is Theory Developed?
How is Theory Used?
Summary
Further Reading
2 - THE BRAIN AND LEARNING
What Is The Brain?
What Does The Brain Do?
Learning and the Brain
Brain Connections, Birth to One Year
Does The Brain Learn Some Things More Easily At Some Points?</i>
<i>Does The Brain Development Need A Rich And Varied Setting?
Summary
Further Reading
3 - THE SENSES AND LEARNING