| Question | Answer | Concepts Taught |
| Jerome Bruner | Constructivism and Discovery Learning Theory | A theory that focuses on the students ability to construct new ideas based on previous knowledge. They can then use this knowledge to discover information. Spiraling education. |
| John Dewey | Learn through experience | The idea that students should be taught how to think and become active learners. This theory also believes that teachers and students need more academic autonomy in the classroom. |
| Erik Erikson | Eight Stages of Human Development (based on a conflict that must be resolved) | 1) Infancy/Trust
2) Toddler/Autonomy.doubt
3) Early Childhood/Initiative.guilt
4) Elementary/Competence
5) Adolescence/Identity
6) Young Adult/Intimacy
7) Middle Adult/Generativity
8) Late Adult/Integrity |
| Lawrence Kohlberg | Moral Development | Developed a theory that includes six stages of moral development including pre-conventional, conventional, and post-conventional |
| Abraham Maslow | Hierarchy of needs | 1) Physiological
2) Safety
3) Love
4) Esteem
5) Self-actualization |
| Maria Montessori | Follow the child | The Learning process involves three stages:
1) Learn about a concept
2) Process the concept through exploration and practice
3) Knowledge including ability to teach the concept. |
| Jean Piaget | Stages of Cognitive Development | 1) Sensorimotor
2) Pre-operational
3) Concrete operational
4) Formal Operational |
| B.F. Skinner | Operant Conditioning | Stimulus response |
| Lev Vygotsky | Zone of Proximal Development | Learning that takes place at or just higher (with help) than independence learning could. |
| Howard Gardner | Multiple Intelligences | Students have basic intelligences they use to learn including verbal, mathematical, visual, kenesthetic, musical, intrapersonal (inner-emotional), interpersonal (social), and natural. |
| Nitza Hidalgo | Levels of Culture | Concrete, Behavioral, Symbolic |
| Luis Mull | Funds of Knowledge | The unknown resources of knowledge within a community that the school/teacher may be unaware of. |
| Albert Bandura | Social Learning Theory | Theorist found that children learn by observing others through modeling or viewing others' experiences. |
