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What is the timeline of Pavlov, Watson, Thorndike, and Skinner. What is Pavlov's dogs experiment. What is Pavlov flow chat. Examples of unconditioned stimulus, unconditioned response, neutral stimulus, no conditioned response, conditioned stimulus, and conditioned response. What is Watson's Little Albert experiment. Who is the founder of behaviourism. What is Thorndike's Puzzle Box experiment. What is the law of effect. What is the law of exercise. What is Skinner's Box. What is operant cond...

Who is Burner. What are the types of effective scaffolding. What are the modes of representations. What is spiral curriculum. What is accelerated learning. What is problem-based learning (PBL), what are the strengths and weaknesses. What is the theory of instruction. What is the role of language, what are the strengths and weaknesses. What are the implications on learning and teaching. What are the similarities and differences between Bruner and Piaget. What are the similarities and differences ...

Who is Vygotsky. What is the timeline of Vygotsky and Piaget. What is the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD). What is a Much Knowledgeable Other (MKO). What is Scaffolding, how does it link to the ZPD. What is peer collaboration, how can this be used in relation to ZPD and MKO. What is language/speech development and internalisation. What are Vygotsky's 2 different stages of speech development. What are the supporting and contrasting theories. What is Piaget's egocentric speech. What is Vygot...

How to apply Piaget's theory to education. Evaluate Piaget's theory, identifying strengths and weaknesses. What is the developmental stage theory. What is Piaget's theory of cognitive development. What is stage 1 - sensorimotor stage. What is stage 2 - pre-operational stage. What is stage 3 - concrete operational stage. What is stage 4 - formal operational stage. What is the nature of Piaget's stages. What are the critiques of Piaget's tasks. What are the key concepts of Piaget's theory. W...

What is CPD. Why is CPD important. Diagram of formal, incidental, informal, and planned communication. What are the disciplines of a learning organisation (SENGE).What is staff supervision. What are the types of staff supervision. What are the functions of staff supervision. What are the approaches to staff supervision. What is the difference between supervision and coaching. What is mentoring. What is coaching. How does 21st century technology improve communication in education. How has technol...

What is complex trauma. What are the conceptual diagnosis difficulties of trauma. What are the key principles of TIP. What is TIP. How many people have access needed. How do disability and trauma informed overlap. TIP background. What is the ACE study, what did they find, how does ACE impact children. What is trauma. What is susceptibility. What is generation. What is thinning. What is maltreatment as a form of trauma response. How does trauma disrupt learning. What is the polyvagal theory. Wha...

What to look out for in observations. What is ethos. what are the 5 elements of ethos. What is ethos as integration-in-action. What types of school culture are there and how can they be achieved. Why is ethos important in education. How can leadership shape culture. What are the 4 main elements leadership impacts. What are mission statements. What are vision statements. What is educational leadership. Dinham (2007) diagram of leadership. What are the 2 main models of leadership. What is educatio...

What are the 3 main elements of philosophy. What is ontology, epistemology, axiology. What are the 4 main elements of ontology. What is realism, relativism, nominalism, internal realism. What are the 5 main elements of epistemology. What is positivism, critical theory, post-positivism, interpretivism, pragmatism. What is methodology. What is qualitative and quantitative methodology. Flow chart of ontology, epistemology, and methodology. What are questionnaires, what is the process behind them, w...

Definition of SEN, what are the areas of need. True or false questionnaire. What is the Matthew effect. What is the utilitarian approach. What is integration. What is inclusion. What is diversity. What does inclusion of groups refers to. What is EAL. How is EAL different to SEN. What is bilingualism. What is language acquisition. Placement information.

What mades a professional, conceptually and practically. What makes a profession. What are the notions of profession/professionalism. How has the nature of teaching changed overtime. What are the critiques of professionalism. What are the benefits and consequences of professionalism.