Application Of Learning Theories

Running head: APPLICATION OF LEARNING THEORIES
APPLICATION OF LEARNING THEORIES
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Introduction:
The teaching practices of the teachers and the educators have been successful through the
ages because they have been applying certain theories to their modes of learning and professional
teaching. The learning theories have been the source of knowledge, and also the assumptions that
can help the teachers to explain and analyze the learning and teaching. Out of the most important
strategies, the behaviorist theory and the humanist theory are the fundamental ones with the help
of which the teacher can understand the students and their needs. In this essay the two most
important learning modes that will be discusses are the Behaviorurism and Humanism and they
would be linked to the behaviorist theories and the theory of humanism. In context of this, the
essay would also discuss the theoretical, the social as well as the educational context of teaching
in the classrooms.
Discussion:
The practice of teaching
The teaching practice is the process through which a teacher communicates with his or
her student and in turn imparts knowledge to them. through the process of teaching, a teacher
spend a quite amount of his time in the schools or in the educational institutions, because the
most important purpose of teaching is to apply their own skills to provide the students with the
opportunity to showcase their own (Gilbert & Tillman, 2017). The students can make use of their
pedagogical knowledge when they remain under the teachers’ training practice. A good teacher’s
practice is said to be done, if the teacher encourages the communication between themselves and
the students and cooperates them, encouraging them to learn new aspects everyday.

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Behaviorist theory
As per the discussion of Sidney (2015), the behaviorism is a key concept that deals with
the psychology of the people and specially the student in the teaching and learning process. This
kind of behaviorist theory is associated with the stimulus responses and actions of the students.
This also implies that all the behavior are actually learned through the interactive processes with
the environment. Also according to Scheele & Papazu (2015), the components of the behaviorist
theory uses measurements and also the different variables that can be obtained by intense
observation. This theory can also be explained as not only dealing with the external actions and
behaviors but also the internal thinking ability, the cognitive as well as the emotional existence
of the students. The teachers have a major role in this as this theory helps to motivate the
students, so that they can take participation in various other activities apart from the academics.
The behaviorist theory can study the characteristics of the student and the way they receive the
positive reinforcement through the activities.
The behavioral theory has a very traditional educational paradigm that brings in the
learning process of having a conditioned behavior. The learning or the educational paradigm here
involves the behavioral science that helps to study the science behind the behavior of the
students. This can be understood with the help of an example of a student, who struggles to
perform better in the academics but fails to do so. These students who cannot achieve success
tends to be anxious and also often faces challenges throughout his journey. They often can start
misbehaving in the classroom along with poor concentration in their studies. This kind of
behavior in the learning process can be explained with the behaviorist learning theory. This
according to the theorists Sidney( 2015), the behaviorist learning processes have both advantages
and disadvantages. The greatest strength of this learning mode is that it focuses on what has been