So, how exactly can Piaget’s stages be applied to education? At the root, it’s about recognizing the stage a child is currently in and catering to that developmental level.

Teachers and parents can help by providing children with different experiences or ways to explore and experiment with their environments. It’s through these experiences that children may gain understandings of different concepts in a hands-on way.

For young children entering preschool and kindergarten, Piaget’s theories align more with play-based school programs, or environments where kids are offered opportunities for trial and error, and interaction with the real world.

Piaget’s philosophy can be incorporated into any education program.

Examples include:

1. Providing chances for trial and error. Focus on the process of learning versus the end result.
2. Providing children with visual aids and other props, like models, to illustrate different ideas and concepts.
3. Using real-life examples to paint complex ideas, like word problems in math.
4. Providing chances to classify or group information. Outlines and hierarchies are good examples and allow kids to build new ideas from previous knowledge.
5. Offering problems that necessitate analytical or logical thinking. Brain teasers can be used as a tool in this instance.

You can also help your child throughout the stages by catering to their specific learning style at the time:

Sensorimotor

1. Use real objects in play activities.
2. Connect play to the five senses.
3. Implement routines for the youngest children. They are predictable and may be highly useful with developing communication.

Preoperational

1. Children learn best by doing. Allow them to actively interact with a variety of things in their environments, including books, people, games, and objects.
2. Ask questions while children are engaged in daily routines and allow them to come up with their own ideas.
3. Point out new things and encourage children to question you about those things.

Concrete operational

1. Create timelines, three dimensional models, science experiments, and other ways to manipulate abstract concepts.
2. Use brain teasers and riddles to foster analytical thinking.
3. Focus on open-ended questioning.

Formal operational

1. Offer step-by-step explanations of concepts and utilize charts and other visual aids.
2. Explore hypothetical situations. You may relate them to current events or social issues.
3. Broaden concepts whenever possible. For example, if talking about the Civil War, discuss other issues that have divided the country since that time.               https://www.healthline.com/health/piaget-stages-of-development#howto