Mrs. Bobbie Proffitt - EDAT 6115 - KS&TL

Description This week’s reading focused mainly on learning and behavioral methods. We were reminded of different strategies to help in teaching the expected behavior to our students and the actions we can take to make sure they follow these behaviors. Analysis             Ivan Pavlov and B.F. Skinner were two scientists who had a major impact on the research of learning behavior. Pavlov worked with dogs, experimenting to find that, if dogs were presented with food that was accompanied by a bell, the dog would associate the sound of the bell with food and start salivating whenever the bell would ring. Previously when the bell was ringing, the dog sat with no reaction because he had not been trained to associate the sound with the food. This is known as classical conditioning (Slavin, 2015).             Skinner proposed operant behaviors because of the results of his ex...

Description This week’s reading focused on the multiple views of how a child learns as they are growing up. Jean Piaget’s theory is most widely known. He believes in “schemes” and the fact that children go through stages of learning. Analysis Piaget believed that humans pass through four main stages: sensorimotor, preoperational, concrete operational, and formal operational (Slavin, 2015, p. 32).   Piaget’s theory of cognitive development poses that a person cannot skip any one of these stages.   The first stage that a child passes through is the sensorimotor stage, which includes the range of newborns to children age two years old.   Of course, newborns react from their reflexes; as Slavin (2015) notes, “Touch a newborn’s lips, and the baby will begin to suck; place your finger in the palm of an infant’s hand, and the infant will grasp it.   These and other innate behaviors are the building blocks from which the infant’s first schemes [patterns of behavior ...