User:Vroni

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Contents 1 About Me 2 Contacts 3 KWL Chart 4 Links

[edit] About Me

Hey,

My name is Veronika Pfaller, I am 21 years old and I come from Bavaria, Germany. I live in Eichstaett and study there in order to become a primary school teacher, as well as a school psychologist.

When I'm not at university, I spend much of my time working in a media agency.

In my spare time I love hanging around with my friends, going to clubs, go shopping, reading books, spending time with kids and cooking vegetarian food. I'm really interested in foreign cultures and countries and therefore I love travelling around. The places I like best so far are Sicily and especially Barcelona in Spain. I really love this city and I really love speaking spanish :)

¡ a quien no sueña con volar no le crecen alas !

Now I'm looking forward to working on the projects of our "Internet and Project Competence"-course, because I want to learn more about primary school education in other countries like the USA or Bulgaria.

The topic I've chosen to work on is called "types of instruction and learning theories". If you are also interested in this topic, you find a link to the discussion forum down below on my wiki-page!

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...in WIKIVERSITY
E I C H S T A E T T	S O F I A	C H A R L O T T E
Klaudia Schultheis Michael Kratky Verena Kröger Daniela Schweigl Kathrin Bogenrieder Katharina Band Elisabeth Altmann Desislava Maneva Daniela Widdmann Kathrin Lehnert	[[1]]	Leigh Ausband Sherry L. Ott Taylor K. Capps Jennifer S. Hinson Ashton B. Ryan Amie J. Travis Danielle R. Reynolds Valerie Reyes

[edit] KWL Chart

types of instruction and learning theories
WHAT I KNOW	WHAT I WANT TO KNOW	WHAT I LEARNED
The main theories in Germany are (like in the U.S.) behaviorism, information processing and constructivism. In Germany is not really a law, which tells us what theory we have to use. So everyone is relatively free to choose the one he or she likes best. In former times, behaviorism was most popular, but now the focus is on constructivism. In Germany there is not just one theory, but a mixture of all those outlined above.	I would like to know what the main learning theories are called in the U.S. and which theories are encouraged I would like to know how these theories are taught to teacher education students in the U.S. I would like to know which type of learning theories & instruction are most widely used in the U.S. I would like to know if teachers are expected to teach their classes based on a specific learning theory. For example: do they have to teach in the theory that the school believs or are they allowed some flexibilty. Over generations, did the learning theories taught change or have teachers always been encrouaged to teach a certain method?	I learned that Germany and the United States have the same learning theories, including behaviorism, information processing, and constructivism Both Germany and the United States traditinally focused on behavorism but now highly encourage constructivis

[edit] Links

• IPC

• my group (types of instruction and learning theories)

• forum to my project: types of instruction and learning theories

• my version of our presentation