Module 1 Activity 8 Piaget_Influence

Piaget Influence
This activity has reminded me of the need for teachers to be refreshed about the reasons why students learn the way that they do and made me think about what can be done to make them learn even more. It reminded me as a teacher that though students might appear to be similar in the stages of development, they learn differently at different pace, and this must be catered for in the classroom. No longer can a teacher go into a classroom and post tasks on the chalkboard expecting all students to handle all of them the same way.  No longer should the one test/exam at the end of a term decide a child's future. A good reminder for me is that all children go through these stages of cognitive development and we should not expect them to skip a stage. This means that we have to make the students naturally develop and provide the necessary experiences for this development to take place. We cannot and should not force children to develop before they are ready for that stage.