Describe Specific Examples Of Cognitive Development

Week 3: Cognitive development Describe specific examples of adaptation, assimilation and accommodation in your thinking over the past 6 – 12 months.
Cognitive development defined as the structure of thought processes, consist of remembering, problem-solving, and decision-making, from childhood through adolescence to adulthood (Wertsh, and Tulviste,1990). Theories Piaget terminology children coordinate what they learn and achieve are arrange as scheme’s (McDevitt and Ormrod,2004, p. 195). Hence, children familiarise to their environment using an adaptation of child through two corresponding process assimilation and accommodation (Woolfolk and Margetts, 2013, p. 82).

Overtime adaption to my employment last twelve months as an early childcare educator, professional support of naming and promoting emotional and wellbeing of children. Beforehand we never hand support of professional support on the floor to help us as educators or working with the children we support and care about the children. Therefore, over lengthy process our centre status became Echo centre define as Enhancing Children’s Outcomes ("Child Care Woongarrah | Good start", 2017). Therefore, visits from the speech therapist and family practitioner working in conduction with

Educational implications of Piaget’s, approach that all subjects, students perform to their maximum making discoveries, think about their learning and discussions (Woolfolk and Margetts, 2013, p. 91-92). Piaget emphasised as teachers we should be educating the students how to learn and education to develop not provide the intelligence of students (Woolfolk and Margetts, 2013, p. 91). Woolfolk and Margetts (2013) states that understanding Piaget theory it is vital we develop an understanding of the way students think, as teachers can develop teaching strategies to the children’s capabilities (p.