Cognitive apprenticeship

1. Monica C. Jackson
HRD 847
Instructional System Design
March 7, 2011

3. Definition:
 “is a theory of the process where a master of a
skill teaches that skill to an apprentice”
is a method of teaching aimed primarily at
teaching the processes that experts use to
handle complex tasks (Collins, Brown,
Newman, 1989, p. 457-548).

4. The focus of this learning-through-guided-
experience is on cognitive and metacognitive
skills, rather than on the physical skills and
processes of traditional apprenticeships.

5. “Apprenticeship model applies to
cognitive skills”
Instructional Techniques (or tactics)
Situated modeling
Coaching
Scaffolding
Fading

6. Vygotsky, L.S. (1978). Mind and society: The development of higher
mental processes. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

7. Stage I - “Where performance is assisted by more
capable others
Stage II – “Where performance is assisted by the self
Stage III – “Where performance is developed
Stage IV – “de-automation of performance leads to
recursion back through the Zone of Proximal
Development
(Tharp, R. G., & Gallimore, R., 1988)

8. “Getting or keeping a job is the main goal of the
partnership between the consumer and Vocational
Rehabilitation. After an evaluation of the
consumer’s strengths, skills and experience, an
individual plan for employment is jointly developed
by the consumer and counselor, carefully monitored
and, if needed, adjustments are made.”
(North Carolina Department of Vocational Rehabilitation Services – website)