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1. Describe the Constructivist View of Learning. Tell how you would use constructive principles in your teaching.

The constructivist view of learning is when learners process the information and make it their own (Slavin, 2018). I use constructive principles in my classroom by setting up opportunities for cooperative learning. Constructivists use approaches like cooperative learning, questioning, and other skills (Slavin, 2018). I am not sure how I would use the top- down processing in my classroom. I am an inclusion special education teacher, so I usually start with the basics and move up to a more complex problem, like constructivist suggest (Slavin, 2018).

2. There is one student in your class who is never prepared to do her work. She doesn't have a pencil, has misplaced her book, left her homework at home, doesn’t understand the assignment, forgot to buy notebook paper, and so on. The result of all this is that she seldom hands in her homework assignments. As you approach this problem, how might you use rewards? Punishments? Shaping? Home-based reinforcement? Contingency contracting?

As a tenth grade special education inclusion teacher I face students with these characteristics regularly. When a student is not coming prepared for class I first try using positive reinforcement. I do this with shaping. When the student is prepared for class, I praise him/ her. This is starting small, and then when he/she is prepared more than not, I will show the student how they have made progress (grade goes up). If this does not work I try home based reinforcement. I typically involve the parent to this extent when I cannot find a reward great enough at school for the student to change the poor behavior. Recently, I have had a student who refused to study for tests, and therefore this resulting in very poor grades. The only "fun" elective the student is taking is PE. I first would pull him out of PE to study, but I learned he liked missing PE. I then found out he loved playing on his XBOX, so the parents and I met and came up with a home- based reinforcement plan where the student could not play XBOX until he was seen studying for 30 minutes.

Slavin, R. E. (2018). Educational Psychology Theory and Practice (12th ed.). Pearson.