The educational theories depend on the focus of your assignment and the classroom situation you are analysing. The following are some of the commonly discussed theories:

• Piaget’s cognitive development theory helps explain how learners develop knowledge.
• Vygotsky’s social constructivism for discussing interaction, scaffolding and the Zone of Proximal Development.
• Bandura’s social learning theory to explore modelling and observational learning.
• Kolb’s experiential learning theory to connect teaching experiences with reflection and development.
• Bloom’s taxonomy to analyse learning objectives and levels of thinking.

If you are about to write my PGCE assignment, choose theories that clearly explain your classroom evidence to strengthen your academic references.