Comparing 3 Educational Components to Teaching & Learning Theory
the requirements
Describe in detail the particular educational program you
are going to analyze.
Explain the 3- 5 specific program components that you will
address. (for example, program components might be presentation of content such
as lecture, cooperative groups, hybrid, online; assignments such as team
projects, scholarly papers, discussion groups; grading procedures, quizzes,
rubrics, etc.)
Introduce the developmental and learning theories that you
will be using to analyze the program components.
Apply a developmental and a learning theory to the
educational program and specific program components. How can the theories
support or inform practice?
Provide specific examples of the program components and how
they demonstrate or do not demonstrate the theories.
Evaluate the theory or theories by explaining how specific
program components are informed (or not informed) by those theories.
If you discover and determine that the program components
are not supported by theories, then provide recommendations to the educational
program.
Defend or refute the strength of the one theory over
another.





