Hailey Mendez Roster #11

Student Lesson Plan

Edu 201
Objective: To introduce students to Jean Piaget and cognitive development. Students will be able to
understand what a schema is, what the accommodation process is, and the four stages of cognitive
development developed by Jean Piaget.

Materials: PowerPoint, Video “Infant Failing Object Permanence” (integrated with PowerPoint), Google
Form quiz (integrated with PowerPoint).

Instruction:

Introduction

• Bring up prior knowledge: Show a picture of Piaget (visual learners).

• Explain difference between physical development and cognitive development.
• Give students a reason to learn: As future teachers we must understand these theories to
develop effective lesson plans. Will provide a guideline for “What to teach and how to teach.”

Learning Activity

• PowerPoint
❖ Slide 1: To be shown during introduction, Introduce cognitive development
❖ Slide 2: A brief description of Jean Piaget.
❖ Slide 3: Why his theory stands out among other theories, the goal of the theory.
❖ Slide 4: A preview of the components of Paige's theory.
❖ Slide 5: Understanding a schema and why they are important.
❖ Slide 6: Understanding the adaptation process.
❖ Slide 7: A preview of the stages of cognitive development and the basic rules that apply
to these stages.
❖ Slide 8: Unpacking stage one (The Sensorimotor Stage). Ask the students watch what the
child does when the giraffe is hidden > Watch the video provided in the PowerPoint >
ask students what they think a major achievement in this stage is. Describe object
permanence.
❖ Slide 9: Unpacking stage two (The Preoperational Stage).
❖ Slide 10: Unpacking stage three (The Concrete Operational Stage)
❖ Slide: 11: Unpacking stage four (The Formal Operational Stage). Important last notes.
❖ Slide 12: Works Cited

Assessment

• Students are to take the google forms test provided on the slide 11.
Break down of lesson plan

Slide 1:

• brief overview of who he is.

• He was born in Switzerland on August 9, 1896
• After graduating high school, he obtained a Ph.D. in natural sciences.
• He was hired to create intelligence tests that sparked his curiosity in understanding when
concepts of time, justice, and quantity emerges at what age.

Slide 2:

• Piaget studied his own children. He watched them as they grew and concluded some
general statements.
• His theory focuses on one question: How does knowledge grow?
• His stages are specific as opposed to a gradual transformation that many theorists believe in.
• Piaget's works to understand how an infant develops to a child to an individual who can think
critically and hypothesize.

Slide 3:

• Three basic components to his theory: schemas, accommodation and assimilation, and the
stages at which we learn.
• These stages are Sensorimotor, Preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational...I
like to remember them as SuperPower CauliFlower.

Slide 4:

• Schema: a cohesive, repeatable action sequence possessing component actions that are
tightly interconnected and governed by a core meaning.
• Schemata are the building blocks of knowledge and intelligence and they are the way that
we organize information.
• From a teacher perspective, they can be thought of units that we teach.
• When a person has increased the number AND complexity of the schemata to the point
that they can explain what is happening around them and to them...then they have
reached a state of equilibrium.
• Schemas can also be described as a “script” that allows us to function in the world which
we live.
• - Think: What would happen if you didn’t have this script
• For children, schemata are much less complex than this.
Slide 5:

• Piaget believes that children learn through two processes. These are assimilation and
accommodation. This means that intellectual growth is constantly adjusting and reshaping as
the world adjust.
• Example of the adaptation process.
Slide 6:

• Piaget created four stages of cognitive development. There are four basic rules that apply to
these stages...
1. Stages occur in order.
2. Children did not skip stages but pass through each one.
3. There are visible changes from one stage to the next.
4. The stages occur as building blocks, each one using pieces from the last stage.
• There are four stages in cognitive development...
1. Sensorimotor
2. Preoperational
3. Concrete operational
4. Formal Operational

Stage 7:

• Sensorimotor: Birth to age 2 at this stage children absorb information through their
senses. They are fixated on putting things in their mouths to understand what something
is.
- Watch video on PowerPoint and see what happens when the giraffe is place out of sight.
What do you think the big achievement is during this stage?
• When they create a mental schema (representation) of the object, this is known as object
permanence...knowing that an object still exists even when it is out of sight.
• Before this stage, babies have an out of sight out of mind mentality.
Slide 8:
• Preoperational: At this stage children fully develop object permanence
• In this stage there are two substages...symbolic function and intuitive thought.
• During the stage of symbolic function there is an emergence of language that show how
children are representing concepts in their mind.
• Egocentrism means that children cannot see past their own perspective and they only
understand the world through one point of view...their own.
• Language at this stage is egocentric
• Due to egocentrism, in this stage you may also see children in parallel play.
• Intuitive thinking means the children are thinking less symbolically and more logically.
• They are also very curious at this point and are trying to understand more and more.
• They also will begin to organize objects, though because they can only focus on one thing
called centration and at a time, these categories that they create are inconsistent.
• Children want to pretend play as they begin to construct schemas of scenarios, people,
and animals.
Slide 9: Concrete
• Operational: This is a major turning point in cognitive development for during this,
children can be able to think more logically and hence the word “concrete”
 • They are becoming more flexible in their thoughts and ideas.
• They are also learning reversibility
• In this stage children also begin to learn decentering.
• Another major achievement in this stage is conservation.
Slide 10:

• Formal Operational: this is a stage that not everybody achieves in their lifetime. It can be
achieved as early as eleven-years old, but it is a stage that has no deadline like the others.
• This is when students can begin to think hypothetically
• They can manipulate problems in their heads and solve math equations using variables
that hold more than one meaning.
• These are the basics of each stage but there are many critics that go against some of the
key points that Piaget makes.
• There are a few more things to know (provided on PowerPoint)
• Short 12-point quiz provided when link is clicked.