What do you understand from the reading? What are your thoughts?
The readings in TIP are very thought provoking for me. As an alternate route teacher, my BA is in Psychology. It is exhilarating for me to see all the psychologists and their theories that I have researched in depth explored in a different light. It is wonderful to see how the different theories go beyond the scope of just human behavior and enter the realm of teaching, specifically on reading.
Piaget is very much idolized when it comes to child psychology and it interests me to see his constructivist and developmental theories utilitized when discussing how a child learns to read. His cognitive development theories make sense when comparing the stages to the stages of reading. Especially the theory that after a child is older than 6 and has not learned language, they never will.
Reading this book is bringing me back to my undergrad Psychology days where you are presented with a tons of ideas and theories and asked to make sense of them and to adopt the ones you believe in. It is also great to see how this is applied to teaching and how we subconsiously adopt theories which drives the way we instruct our students. To be aware of these theories now is liberating. Personally I now understand the way I have taught in the past and with this newfound knowledge I can improve my teaching. I look foward to reading more of the book.
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It's amazing, isn't it, how all of the theories and ideas start to lead into each other after a certain point. I think that was one of my favorite things about graduate school -- seeing how all of these thoughts were interconnected.
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