–What has created the lesson plan and presentation for The Island Foundation taught you about the way children learn best?

#Praise students for jobs well done, as doing so improves academic and behavioural performance, according to a recent research review and study.

#Through helping peers, students will strengthen the knowledge they have as well as explain the concept to their peers in a comprehensible manner.

#Be patient with children, if there’s any problem, you need to talk or explain to them carefully.

#A segment of the whole lesson shouldn’t be more than 30 minutes, or you will lose their attention.

–What connections can you draw between Piaget’s theory of cognitive development and/or Vygotsky’s social learning theory and the way you have constructed your lesson?

#Piaget thinks that children think differently, but Vygotsky thinks that biological factors and culture determines the type of memory. In Piaget’s theory, if you cover a toy which is put in front of a child with a cardboard, the child will be interested in a toy that suddenly ‘disappears’, but they don’t think that the toy is behind the cardboard, even if they see you covering it up.

#About Vygotsky’s social learning theory, he thinks if the culture People’s ideas advance with the progress of the society. For example, in China, people used to make a fist, and put their thumb and little finger up, then put their hands beside their ear, which is the gesture of making a phone call. However, in today’s China, children hold their fingers together as a gesture of phone. Why is there such a difference? Because the appearance of the previous phone and the present phone has changed, so the gestures people use to indicate the phone have also changed over time. This is Vygotsky’s social learning theory.

–Why is this approach to learning important for meeting Indonesia’s development needs?

#Education system of Indonesia is large and complex, and it is extremely broad and including multilateral institutions, thus, the way we teaching need to be suitable for the rapid development of Indonesia, for example, we should add some knowledge about the 3c’s, communication, collaboration and critical thinking. To make the students understand better, we need to do some research about how children thinking, so our lesson should be meaningful and useful for children’s future but need to be attractive for them as well. The approach is useful because it helps us attract our students easier and more suitable for Indonesia education system.