Bruner’s 3 Steps of Learning in a Spiral Curriculum

In the 1980s, the Singaporean government decided to stop importing foreign textbooks and, instead, build the world's best math curriculum from scratch. Since that time, Singaporeans study fewer concepts with greater detail, following Bruner's guideline.
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Jerome Bruner
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Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)
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I couldn't agree more, helpful indeed!

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Thanks for that. I'm busy designing a podcast episode about constructivism and needed a quick revision of Bruner's role in it. This video delivered beyond expectation!

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Your sound and way of making videos are simply awesome... All topics that you have covered had helped me lot in my studies....thanks a lot😍

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A special thanks for Bruner and for others for giving us many Ideas and Advices

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your 4 minutes explanation makes me understand the theory super easily - thank you

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What a great video, it shed light on many concepts I've run into over my years of teaching.

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I have 2 type amnesia cause of a traumatic brain injury in 2018 and I have overcome my retrograde amnesia(thank god), since 2018/2019 Ive been searching for an effective way to learn stuff because I also have anterograde amnesia(I have trouble retaining recent and future memories). And I wish this video was recommended to me by the alogrithm earlier. Thank you for educating me today and thank you for making this. You helped me immensely 🙋🏻‍♀😘 Be safe and healthy! Thank you

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[@SiMeGamer]

Definitely one of the best methods of learning. Falls completely in line with proper epistemological body of knowledge building as established by Ayn Rand ({sense perception -> percepts (concretes) -> concepts (abstractions) -> more concepts (more abstract abstractions) -> etc etc ... } = body of knowledge). It's really sad that because of current ways of government forced education rather than it being up the market, students are almost never able to get this type of learning because of how costly it is when scaled (and thus fits better under smaller private education models). This is similar to what Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy, says "teach for mastery". He has a fantastic Ted Talk on the subject. Really like this artstyle you had in this video. Really easy on the eyes and pretty to boot :]

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Thanks SiMe for all the good references! And very happy to hear that you liked the style!

[@warlockpaladin2261]

Bruner is probably where she got it from, although Rand always took everything and made it needlessly more complicated than it ought to been.

[@TheGreenProspective]

Talk about conflating ideas. Ayn Rand was not a critical thinker. It's easy to identify with a certain attitude but that does not make it knowledge or constructive. Never associate what Rand stood for, which is ultimately destructive, with a pedagogical approach which is what Bruner was studying and constructing. Again, attitude does not mean knowledge. You can apply knowledge in constructive ways. Attitude helps you feel better about what you believe in but it's not nearly enough; definitely, not the destructive messages Rand stands for. That won't help you learn anything.

[@SiMeGamer]

@@TheGreenProspective have you ever read her non-fiction? Specifically on epistemology. Because I'm referring to her epistemology. If you hate Rand's morality or her politics, it has nothing to do with her epistemology.

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Brilliant explanation. Now my concept is crystal clear.

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excellent work by Sprouts... well done

[@magalyriverarojas3597]

This theory can be applied to teach Phrasal verbs: depart from the previous knowledge the SS have about some verbs and prepositions , show pictures or images about these phrasal verbs, completation exercises, and creation of paragraph using them.

[@shamyugtamegala8300]

Physics can be made to learn like this

[@montessorihour3398]

I would love to use these videos as a reference for discussions with my students. thank you

[@charlietrumpet96]

You’ve just saved me a lot of time reading some heavy material for my PGCE that now I’ll understand much quicker

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Yours 5 min clip is more beneficial than the 1 hr lecture on same topic

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Blessings from Taiwan 🇹🇼😇🥰 Thank you for your video so I can teach my students BETTER than yesterday ! 🤗 I'm a subscriber now ! 🤓

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I like his philosophy about learning, cannot be more agree with

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Hey, I'm a Singaporean haha, great to hear about what has been done.

[@vernnys1325]

Buen aporte sobre el pensamiento Bruner, me gusta que lo actualizaron con Singapur, indicando que tiene resultados exitosos.

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How you create this video? Its a good editing. I would like to know what application do you use. Thank you

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Pls ,make a video about "productivity".

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Excellent presentation........understandable..... with interested

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Wow, this is a great video.

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Keep it up Sir

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Incredibly informative.

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Glad it was helpful! Keep learning :)

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A video on Edward De Bono's 'Six thinking hats' technique will be highly appreciated

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this is great...

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I would like to know if it is applicable to other kind of learnings. And also, could it be possible with a big amount of students in a poor classroom? I really want to know how to help teachers to give it a try in day to day classes and I see the difficult to have big amount of students, with no many teaching materials and a very short time time of classes for intervention.

[@warlockpaladin2261]

Would I be wrong in my analysis of this video's thesis if I were to say that Bruner's model follows as "pathos, logos, then ethos" as a means of assimilation?

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Nice !

[@mikeel4]

Yep, you have to circle back. You also have to comfort the children to let them know they are going to forget it, but on re-exposure they will learn it back faster, deeper and it will last longer - they haven't really forgotten it. As for you can teach them anything - nah - I used to think that too: so long as you can break it down into small enough parts they can understand, you can build the concept. It doesn't work. They are only capable of certain concepts at a time when their brain is sufficiently developed to handle it. Having said that, I think we can drag a lot of the Yr7-8 curriculum for Mathematics down into elementary. Their brains can certainly handle it. Imagine all the extra time you would have to build and background calculus and show the interconnectedness of mathematical ideas in middle and high school. You could really flesh it out rather than cram it in.

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Great comment!

[@lovemorenkomo732]

Students are not empty vessels in which those regarded as informative pour knowledge in thembut they must take part in active development of their cognitive skills

[@naincyjyoti9137]

I think india should follow this kind of curriculum for just nt making peolpe literate but actually educated

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It is how i learn things

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Finally, after a whole 1+ month a new video.😳

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Agreed

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Hi, can you please create a video explaining the TPACK framework? It will be of great help if you can provide one 🥺

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[@zeyadfathy7153]

It's a pretty creative method I wish they do that in my country

[@atashsharma3828]

This theory is far better than the Freid and Watson's entire career

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I didn’t know he was born blind. This video gives great details.😊THNX

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[@kkn_d7194]

Even though i am not pro... I really want to excel at math and physics, it's not that i hate, instead i want to put effort but eventually end up impossible. So what is the best form of study techniques for this kinda subject.

[@chandrikashanmugam4333]

My personal suggestion if you don't mind - • be clear with concepts / theory of a particular topic, understand thoroughly by your own or with some help( teachers, friends, articles, YT videos etc). • solve as many numericals as you can in that particular topics ( which strengthens the concept of the topic also show you where are they applied in real world moreover it is one of the best way of revision) • when doing above steps make questions side by side. Later when you want to revise ask those questions to you. This strengthens the neural connection in brain of that particular topic. All the best!

[@kkn_d7194]

@em ! I am not that below averaged, 😂 done my degree like 2 yrs ago, almost 25 y/o now, preparing for job entrance stuffs. I don't think it would be a good image for me to go to kindergarten 🤣

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@em ! I just wanted to know, as i have seen some really oversmarts collegues who would just look at any calculus and alzebra based questions and just go on writing it out the answers as if nothing in a seconds or so. If you guys are one of like that kind, tell me ur secret 🤭

[@vanessaconcepcion1146]

Jerome Bruner’s theory of development is based on the assumption that we learn best when we go from concrete to abstract in a three step process: first comes hands on “action”, then learning with “images” and finally students transform what they’ve learned into “language”.

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Can someone tell me preschool activity that applies this theory ??

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One Subject that we should Explain with Help of Brunner's Method is GEOGRAPHY.

[@corneliakatuma4496]

I fail to understand scaffolding. Please tell me more. Thanks.

[@sprouts]

Maybe you'll understand it better with an example: John's elder brother shows him how to solve divisions. John's elder brother guides him through the steps and corrects him if needed. After learning the steps and solving a few questions with the help of his brother, John then solves his math assignment confidently by himself. Here, the student is provided support to learn a new concept. He's given support and guidance initially, and gradually, he gains confidence. He is not helped by his brother anymore. Gradually, John has learned the concept of divisions!

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Obrigado 🤍

[@amiyaprakashbiswas519]

Physic is a subject

[@tizianabelle]

C'è anche in Italiano?

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Ciao! We do have an Italian channel, but this video is not out yet. Sorry!

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Organic chemistry and physics

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Turkish pls :)

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India needs this...

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@Le Lézard Pessimiste don't you worry

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Agreed

[@Viv8ldi]

I love Bruners Theory. Here in Germany knowledge is thought in the worst possible way.

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Ah YES GERMAN COMMUNISM MANIFESTO AND FRIEDRICH ENGEL COMRADE :)

[@MaximilienBailly3]

C'est incontestablement l'une des meilleures façon d'enseigner mais il a pas inventé le couteau à beurre.

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N'étant pas encore bilingue... j'aimerais savoir c'est quoi leurs techniques ? Je te remercie 🙂

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Science

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[@arekd9769]

worst teaching/learning method I've experienced. Kills your hunger for new undiscovered already(at least by yourself) territories. repetition seems to bore children to death. we do same topic every few yrs- Why waste time ? I hated it in school. Go sleep old man and old concept. let this die in some authoritarian regime ruling education like singapore or south korea

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Singapore are the best at everything according Singapore. Try speaking English.

[@noeliasaucedo45]

I need this on the spanish channel please!!! 🫶🏼

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Nice