Week 3 T2P

Today was so full of assignments. The entire class was very engaged all day when it came to learning the different theorist. I really enjoyed today's activity. We all came in with research done on a particular theorist and worked together to share and improve our knowledge. We coincidentally in my group were working on Vygostsky who believed very highly and his theory was based on the believe that higher learning takes place when in the presents of those that have more knowledge. An example, is us working in our groups today for this assignment.
We were asked to complete the questions about the theorist which gave a more concrete way of looking at the theorist. This activity allowed us to fully understand the entire process from teacher to learner, to environment. We continued on to meet in groups to discuss the different theorist and teach others about what we learned ourselves. This is an extremely important task which allows us to not only save time by not having to read and research all theorist ourselves, but it allows us to teach each other. Most students will understand the information that is being addressed more in depth when they have to vocally explain the situation to other peers. Sometimes a peer will have useful suggestions on ways to remember or make sense of the topic.
I thought the activity was fun when we repeated these steps in different groups and researched different theorists. This time we had to research Maslow. Maslow believed in his hierarchy of needs and was based more on individual success. It was a great assignment and full of activities to keep all students involved and engaged. It also has a higher level of success in the fact that others can use the works that are created to learn about other theorist as well. These works hit the highlights of the theorist that are discussed.
All in all the day was very productive. I feel like there was way too much pushed into one day and there was a lot of work which needed to still be completed at home by midnight. Those were difficult demands to keep up with.

T2P-
If a teacher pairs a more advanced student with a student who is having difficulties, or by playing a game with teams then students will work together collaboratively as a team during the group assignments and learning will occur because it will lead to more knowledge being developed and discussed.