Apply Learning Theories Into Activities

Learning is an important process in our whole life. Starting from kindergarten, children need to acquire more new knowledge and skills from different domains. These knowledge is important for children to be adapted to the environment which change every. An appropriate teaching plan can really facilitate children to learn more effectively. As being a professional teacher, it is not enough to only know what the children have learnt but ignoring the process of learning. So in this essay, an activity is designed for students and there are two learning theories that are used to apply into the activity. Those theories are the social learning theory and the operant conditioning. Examples would be used from the activity to explain how the theories fit into the design and process of facilitating children’s learning.
In order to make clear application of the theories, the activity is need to be introduced in detail. The designed activity is focus on the music domain. This activity is designed for K2 students who are speaking Cantonese as their mother language. The activity is mainly aims to teach children to learn about the concept of rhythm and beat through games and practical practice. There are several learning objects for children to achieve by the activity. Firstly, students can basically differentiate different rhythm according to their speed. Secondly, students can clap out different set of diverse rhythm of one beat and half beat according to the prompted fruit pictures. Last but not least, students can apply the knowledge to clap out the rhythm of a song which make up by one beat and half beat, and then learn to sing the song.
At the beginning of the activity, teacher will clap out different set of steady beat and ask student to listen carefully. Also, teacher is going to discuss with the students whether the rhythm is fast or slow. Teacher changed to use the piano or other music instrument to play different set of steady beat afterwards. At the same time, to