Here are some assumptions about young learners to help you plan and implement instructional methods. Children are curious . Their need to explore and manipulate should be fulfilled through handling real things that involve more than one sense. The more all the senses are involved , the more effective the learning experience.
Most human activity is a purposeful search for pattern.
This includes organizing new information and relating it to previously developed concepts. Incongruity between old patterns and new experiences stimulates questioning, observation, manipulation, and application in a variety of new situations. Maintaining the right balance between novel and familiar experiences in learning situations is one of the most vital tasks in the art of teaching. Learning experiences gain power if they are part of organized and meaningful wholes. Children find self-fulfillment in successful learning and are not motivated merely by external rewards and approval.