Cognitive Learning

According to the cognitive theory an
effective teacher should follow six
basic principles to achieve cognitive
learning:

• Learning should depend on learner's experience,which means that the teacher should provide students with the experience needed to meet the specified objectives.
• Learning construct understanding in an effort to make sense of experiences. It's not enough to only provide students with experiences, but also to allow them to construct a meaningful ideas about the real world application.
• constructing understanding depends on what learners already know. Students are not white sheets and we have to fill them. Students arrive with different backgrounds and experiences. The teacher should be able to connect the new information to what they already know or believe.
• Constructing Understanding is facilitated by social interaction. Social interaction allows teacher to get into the student's head to know what they are thinking. Also it allow students to be introduced to others experiences and perspectives.
• Learning requires practice. As a teacher, we shouldn't only introduce the idea, but we should give them appropriate exercises to solidify and connect ideas with each other.
• optimal learning is achieved with concrete and real world experiences. This is the basic building block of cognitive learning. The role of teacher is to covert an abstract topic to more concrete one by linking it to the real life. This would make information meaningful for students regardless of their age or subject taught.