As a future teacher, how will you apply your knowledge about the process of equilibration?

As future facilitators of learning, it is vital in teaching that we have to apply the process of equilibration
to provide successful learning progress to our students. With the process of equilibration, we could
balance the background knowledge that our learners have with the new information that they will gain.
For instance, learners know about basic formulas in math. However, by the time that the teacher is
introducing a new topic which is the Pythagorean Theorem. All of them are confused because their
mental schemata are not enough for the lesson. So, as future educators, it is our responsibility to explain
and elaborate to them what was the topic all about and utilize their existing schemata to the new
information for them to understand and grasp the lesson. Also, through this, we help our students
accommodate new information wherein they can adapt it to their thinking and create new learning that
is beneficial to them.

How are you going to apply Piaget stages of development in your classroom?

As future educators, we could apply the Piaget stages of development in our classroom by aligning our
teaching practices and activities to the needs of our learners. We all know that Piaget's stages of
development show the different capabilities and incapability of our learners. For instance, if we are
teaching preschoolers ages 3-5 years old, we need to use appropriate objects for our learners to develop
their preoperational ability. Such as sticks, apples, mangoes, and oranges in representing numbers. We
do not give them problems that involve abstract thinking because we know that their capabilities are
not suited for such a case. So as educators, we aim to provide a rich and stimulating environment with
appropriate methods and strategies to help our learners grow and develop.

How does this knowledge influence your selection of what to teach?

This knowledge influences my selection of what to teach to my future learners since I have to take into
consideration their cognitive capacity. As future educators, we have to align our lessons to the thinking
means of our students. For instance, a preschooler cannot be taught lessons like freedom, social
injustices, and democracy. Since they cannot grasp this kind of topic as they are only learning things like
correctly naming colors, understanding the idea of sizes and shapes. We all know that preschooler’s
ability is only on physical manipulations and not about logical reasoning. So, as future facilitators of
learning, we need to build a good foundation in teaching our learners. And it is only possible if we utilize
our knowledge about Piaget's stages of development theory.

How does this knowledge influence your selection of how to teach?

This knowledge influences my selection of how to teach my lessons since I have to consider the
capabilities and incapabilities of my future learners. In order to reach their full learning potential, we as
teachers have to align our way of teaching, approaches, strategies, and instructions to the abilities of
our learners. Because if the facilitators fail to align how they teach to the students, it might result in an
unpleasant outcome. If teachers do not have enough knowledge about the cognitive abilities of their
learners, they might use teaching strategies that are not appropriate to the development of the learning
progress of the students. For instance, a preschool teacher gives a lecture about simple addition by
showing solutions on the board, which is not suitable for the learner. A preschooler cannot relate to this
kind of teaching since they only learn through physical manipulations and cannot perform abstract
thinking. So, as teachers, we have to use objects that will help our preschoolers to understand the
concept of addition. Thus, knowing Piaget's stages of development is essential as it guides us, teachers,
to have relevant teaching styles and approaches that are not only beneficial to us but as well as to our
learner's success.