The document discusses the developmental perspective on education and teaching. The developmental perspective focuses on helping learners construct their own understanding by building on their existing knowledge and ways of thinking. Effective teaching from this perspective means planning lessons from the learner's point of view, using challenging questions to move students from simple to complex thinking, and adapting instruction to learners' levels of understanding. The teacher's role is to facilitate learning without undermining students' independent development of knowledge and use expertise to guide students as active participants in the learning process.

1. Content
Motivational beliefs
Instruction
Developmental
Perspective
The primary goal of education or training is to develop increasingly
complex and sophisticated ways of reasoning and problem solving within
a content area or field of practice.(Pratt, D. D. 2002)
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2. Content
•The assumption behind this strategy is that learning brings about one of two kinds of
change inside the brain:
•First, when a new experience fits with what someone already knows, it builds a stronger
and more elaborate pathway to that knowledge (Pratt, D. D. 2002).
•Second, if a new experience or new content doesn’t fit the learner’s current way of
knowing, s/he must either change the old way of knowing or reject the new knowledge or
experience (Pratt, D. D. 2002).
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3. Instruction
To be effective teaching in this perspective it is important to plan
and conduct material from the learners point of view.
Engaging students requires the use of challenging questions to
help learners move from simple to complex forms of thinking.
Provide meaningful examples.
Developmental teachers adapt their knowledge to learners 'ways of
understanding (Pratt, D. D. 2002)
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4. Motivational Beliefs
1) Make sure to focus on the development of the individual.
2) Show students that you take an interest in them.
3) Try to encourage the development of self-confidence, and
self-direction in students who need these qualities.
4) Teachers must use their knowledge and expertise in ways
that do not undermine the goal of helping learners construct
their own forms of understanding (Pratt, D. D. 2002).
5) Teachers view students as active participants in the
process of acquiring knowledge.
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Examples of Developmental Perspectives
Choosing good questions
and providing adequate
time for learners to answer
them themselves;
Creating
assessments that measure
complex reasoning
Teacher's Perspective
and Style (choices)
defines the learner's
experience (Mahan, J.
2012)

6. Mahon, J. D. (2012) Understanding How Your Teaching Perspective Influences Your
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