Discuss your personal beliefs about how students learn. 1. Discuss how your beliefs align with elements of each of the following learning theories: • cognitivism • behaviorism • constructivism
B. Using the “WGU Lesson Plan Template,” provide a lesson plan or instructional plan from a level that is not aligned with your current instructional setting (e.g., if you teach in a grades K-6 instructional setting, provide a grades 5-12 lesson plan: if you teach in an entry-level instructional setting, provide a mid- or expert-level lesson plan) and includes the following: • general information (i.e., lesson title and subject, topic, grade level, instructional setting) • complete written state core curriculum or student achievement standards or organizational goals or standards • measurable lesson or training objectives • detailed instructional methods and strategies, including activities, student practice, and differentiation • description of the assessment • alignment of the setting, objectives, instructional plan, and assessment Discuss one curriculum content or instructional strategy modification to the plan from part B by doing the following: 1. Propose one modification that incorporates one of the following learning theories: • cognitivism • behaviorism in academics • constructivism 2. Discuss how the modification connects to a principle of the chosen learning theory. 3. Justify the appropriateness of the modification for the instructional setting. Activate Windows
D. Analyze how changing the level of the instructional setting of the lesson or instructional plan from part B would affect the way you incorporate the chosen learning theory from part Cl.
E. Acknowledge sources, using in-text citations and references, for content that is quoted, paraphrased, or summarized.
