Jean Piaget Analysis

It is crucial for us to understand the fundamentals of the development of a child as there are countless ways to conduct a lessons and to understand why children would react differently at this timing to another timing when they are completing a certain task. Furthermore, children develop uniquely and their development milestones differs from one another. Thus, a teacher must be cognizant of each child’s progression before conducting the class. This will help the teacher to plan and organize the lesson materials and the lesson time appropriately.

Piaget’s stages of cognitive development suggests that children has four different stages of mental developments. His theory allows us to learnt about how children obtain knowledge within one self

This approach emphasizes on how children’s ability can make sense of their immediate everyday surroundings. Piaget also proposed that children perceived to four stages based on maturation and experiences. Piaget’s theory was guided by assumptions of how a learner interacts with their own environment and how they integrate new knowledge and information into existing knowledge. Briefly, he proposed that children are active learners who construct knowledge from their own environment. They learn through assimilation and accommodation in complex cognitive development. Furthermore, interaction with physical and social environments is the key and development occurs in stages. An example of Jean Piaget theory carried out in the classroom is that giving children a great deal of hands-on practice, by using concrete props and visual aids. Taking into consideration and being sensitive to the possibility that students may have different meanings for the same word, or different words for the same meaning where students may expect everyone to understand the words they have

In the first stage, children will undergo the process of assimilation where they will be using their existing schema to handle a new situation or something new when felt. In the second stage, they will go through the accommodation process in which if their existing schema does not work, it will be
‘upgraded’ or changed with newly acquired knowledge. During the third stage of adaptation process, they will go through the stage of equilibration when external pressure from knowledge acquire is being used to modify prior knowledge. This only happens when children are able to allow their existing schemas to handle new information through the first process, assimilation.
The last of Piaget’s theory is the stages of development. We will look at the

first two stages which are the sensorimotor and preoperational stages. During the

stage of sensorimotor which happens during the first two years from birth, they will

undergo a key feature of knowing and having object permanence that also means

that if a particular object was hidden or covered by a cloth, he or she will be able to

actively search for it. The preoperational stage takes place from two years of age till

they are of seven years old. During this stage, children will be building up