Ellie Haskell ed psych

In the class that I observe I haven't seen a whole lot of constructivism . In the math class the teacher does use spiral curriculum . She covers material they have learned the year before and goes into it more deeply or builds upon previous concepts learned. She does focus more on the symbolic processing in her math classes. She does include some iconic and enactive processing by having students play with ideas about statistics and she also uses pictures of graphs to explain what the equation is doing.    She did have an authentic activity that I observed. She was trying to help her students understand adding and multiplying exponents. She created a math maze where there were 12 multiple choice questions posted around the classroom. Students chose the answer they thought was right and that one told them the next one to go to. If they went through all 12 questions then each answer they chose was right. If they somehow got a question twice then they had to review which one ...

From what I noticed in my observations about the teacher is that she likes to use Vygotsky's sociocultural theory . In her Stats 1040 class she asks that her students read the chapter, that she covering in class, before they discuss it. If other students in the class didn't read the chapter she would differentiate by letting the kids teach the students, who didn't read the chapter, what they learned using assisted learning .  She then has them write down what they think is important and what questions they still have. This would help prepare the students for the lesson and help them internalize important topics from the lesson. She would then ask them in class what they thought were important and talk to them about questions they had about the chapter using cultural tools to help bridge the gap of what they read to the application process. They would then work on a worksheet that was in their ZPD . They would work on it alone for a little while the teach was scaffolding , ...

This week when I went to my observation class I noticed that the students in a little bit in all the levels of Kohlberg's level of moral development . I heard some seniors in her STATS 1040 class asking if scores were going to be out up soon so that they could show their parents their current grade in the class. They might have done this in fear of punishment if they didn't do well which would be stage 1 in pre-conventional.  They might also being doing their homework and wanting good scores because they want to be seen as the good girl/boy in class. This is the Conventional level stage 3. I have also seen the students complain about homework because they feel that there is nothing in it for them which would be the Pre-Conventional stage 2 . The teacher then tells them that if they don't practice they won't know the steps and how to do the problems. They also would not succeed on the test. The teacher also does not dock off points when the students turn in late work. T...