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The Following Video shows two educational theories at work. Theory one relates to Social Cognitive Theory by having students learn by watching others. In this case students are watching the movements of the teacher and other students in the class as how to perform certain motor responses. Theory two, Piaget theory of cognitive development. In which students are constantly experimenting with their bodies in relation to movements and working toward a common goal which in this case happens to be a dance sequence. 

 Educational Theories at work

Rocky C. Burns

The University of South Carolina

Abstract

     Within the physical education setting various theories can be seen at work. They include, Social Cognitive Theory and Piaget's theory of Cognitive development. Within the P.E setting children are constently manuiplating their body, equiptment and actions with one another to elilcite certain motor responses and accomplish basic task such as kicking a soccer ball between two cones, or finding various bases of wide and narrow support in a gymnastics lesson. Children are motivated and more active learners when they can continually move their body, manipulate objects, and encounter different environments in a school setting. Within a classroom setting demonstrations can prove critical by helping students learn quickly. For example, you can tell students how to find their partner, pick up two cones, set them against the wall and start. But will the student know or remember how to do the task? By observing the behaviors of others in relation to setting up equiptment, or executing a movement students can learn from two sources of information and increase a certain outcome.

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Educational Theories: At work in the Physical Education Field

          "Many teachers have wanted to draw relationships between movement abilites and intelligence of the learner "(Rink, 2006). In the physical education setting various theories can be link to demonstrations of task given to students along with application task better know as self testing situations. These two theories include, Piaget's theory of cognitive development under the basic assumption that children are active and motivated learners. And theory two, Social cognitive theory under the basic assumption that students can learn by observing others. These two assumptions of each theory can be seen in any physical education setting throughout any lesson.

     Piaget basic assumption that children are active and motivated learners states that, " Children continually experiment with the objects they encounter, manipulating them and observing the effects of their actions" (Ormrod, 2006). In the physical education setting children are continually observing the effects of their actions in relation to certain task that are given to them with a clear goal in mind. "When children are ready to test the effectiveness of their performance, a task with an application provides a clear goal, putting the focus on product of the performance" (Rink, 2006). Meaning that if a child is given a task that involves them thinking of ways to come up with various bases of support such as wide and narrow. They will manipulate, and experiment with their body in such a way that will provide them with multiple ideas of what worked for one base of support might not work for the other. The overall idea hear is that children are constantly encountering different objects, and environments in a physical education setting. In these settings children are asked to experiment, and manipulate certain objects or bodies parts in such a way that they can observe the effects of their actions and why it happened.

     Socal cognitive theorist believe that people or children can learn by observing others. "They can acquire many new responses simply by observing the behaviors of other individuals" (Ormrod, 2006). Within a physical educational setting demonstration of task play a critical role in learning or explain a new task. "The clarity of a task is enhanced by demonstration" (Rink, 2006). Demonstrations can provide students with two ways of getting information, verbal and visual. If you explain task verbally to students some might not have trouble following the directions. Other students will benefit from seeing the behavior that may involve getting equiptment, setting it up, and performing the task that was given. Overall, the theory directly relates to the physical education setting because the educational implication is that, "children acquire new behaviors quickly by demonstrating those behaviors yourself" (Ormrod, 2006). 

     Within the physical education setting various theories can be seen at work. They include, Social Cognitive Theory and Piaget's theory of Cognitive development. Within the P.E setting children are constently manuiplating their body, equiptment and actions with one another to elilcite certain motor responses and accomplish basic task such as kicking a soccer ball between two cones, or finding various bases of wide and narrow support in a gymnastics lesson. Children are motivated and more active learners when they can continually move their body, manipulate objects, and encouner different environments in a school setting. Within a classroom setting demonstrations can prove critical by helping students learn quickly. For example, you can tell students how to find their partner, pick up two cones, set them against the wall and start. But will the student know or remember how to do the task? By observing the behaviors of others in relation to setting up equiptment, or executing a movement students can learn from two sources of information and increase a certain outcome.

References

Rink, J. (2006). Teaching Physical Education for Learning. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

Ormrod, J. E. (2006). Educational Psychology: Developing Learners. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson      Prentice Hall.