help needed with schema theory

[kelloggs13]

hiya, i have had to research piagets theory on schema which i have but now i have to outline how this affects current practice at a setting, help!

[Possum]

it's very useful to see why the EYFS works in practice. Schema, as you know, are children's patterns of learning, so we would use these to help a child 'move on' to their next step in learning, much as we do with the EYFS. Take for instance a child who is spending his time playing with the car garage, he's driving cars round and letting them come down the ramp, a rolling schema. We could help him make a larger ramp by providing materials for him, and talking to him and asking questions. Then we could use the ramp to look at other things that roll, balls perhaps, then things that don't roll, a block or something. The next step might be for him to make something that rolls with clay or dough, or possibly lego or dowelling and stiff card (age/ability dependent) which would involve comparisons for size, measuring, constructing etc.
I hope this helps

[kelloggs13]

hiya possum, thank you for your help, its very useful, but the theories about schema we have to write about are the ones with regards to childrens conclusions on things, such a child being givien a drink of milk from a blue beaker may come to the conclusion that every blue beaker contains milk, the Assimilation and accomodation one, and this is why its confusiong as there are two types of schema, ive got the research its just really hard to match this to my practice!

[Possum]

Ah, I'm with you! Well you may have to 'invent' something around your experiences. I'm racking my brains on your behalf here! er, oh - will the timetable/routine cover it, where a child learns that after circle time Mum comes? Hmm - I'll keep thinking!