Introduction
"As teachers, we must create a classroom environment in which stimuli are likely to elicit responses such as enjoyment or relaxation, not fear or anxiety. When students associate school with pleasant circumstances like positive feedback, enjoyable actvities, and so on, they soon learn that school is a place where they want to be. But when they encounter unpleasant stimuli in school such as public humiliation or constant frustration and failure--they may eventually learn to fear or dislike a particular activity, subject area, teacher, or even school in general."
Let's see how we can have the former rather than the latter...
Let's see how we can have the former rather than the latter...
Objectives
- Describe five basic assumptions underlying behaviorist views of learning, and apply these assumptions to classroom practice. Use a behaviorist perspective to describe the diversity you are likely to see among students.
- Explain how learners can acquire involuntary responses through classical conditioning and how you might help them overcome those responses that interfere with classroom performance.
- Describe the effects that reinforcers can have on behavior and apply what you know to describe the positive and negative aspects of reinforcement.
- Describe three kinds of situations in which behaviorist techniques are unlikely to be helpful.
The Assignment
You will have 20 minutes to complete a hands-on cooperative learning project with your assigned group. Please take all your belongings with you when you move to meet your group. The links below (or tabs above) will take you to the directions for your specific activity. At the end of the twenty minutes, you will give a 5 minute presentation to the class, showing off your final product and your learning.
Your groups
Group One
Aasima, Daniel, Jacqueline, Karla
Group Two
Erich, Jeff, Megan, Travis
Group Three
Hannah, Jason, Jessi, Lynnette
Group Four
Alysha, James, Sarah
Aasima, Daniel, Jacqueline, Karla
Group Two
Erich, Jeff, Megan, Travis
Group Three
Hannah, Jason, Jessi, Lynnette
Group Four
Alysha, James, Sarah