Below an overview of my report over the curriculum provided by the Choose Love Movement will be shared.
For this research, I used the first grade social and emotional learning curriculum, and picked the first unit of the curriculum to research.
To accurately convey the curriculum I chose, and to accurately add on my own modifications, I first conducted an analysis, to summarize the instructional unit I chose. Then I identified primary learning theories, using peer-reviewed articles to connect how the cognitive learning theory influenced the unit of instruction. Next, I identified truly the organizations stance of the key elements that made up their curriculum, and their approaches. To tie it all together, I then proposed some modifications I would like to add to improve student learning that correlates with the cognitive learning theory.
Modifications are proposed as I zoom out on the research I have done, and looking back to the proposed modifications I created in step one of my research.
I have found that my potential modifications are slightly different from what I first proposed as they correlate more directly to the Cognitive Learning Theory
Cognitive Learning theory is a psychological framework that focuses on how people acquire, process, and use knowledge. Cognitive learning theory suggest that learning involves active engagement with information, organization, and interpretation of the information learned.
Information Processing
Constructivism
Schema Theory
Metacognition
Social Leanring
Schema Theory: suggests that individuals organize and interpret information based on existing knowledge structures or schemas (background information).
Metacognition: refers to the awareness and control of ones own thinking processes.
Constructivism: suggest that learning is an active process of constructing meaning through personal experiences and interactions with the environment.
Information Processing Model: posits that learning involves the processing of sensory input, encoding of information into memory, and retrieval of stored knowledge when needed.