EDP 3273 Post #3
Do the children in your internship reflect the stage assigned to their age group? The age group I am currently working with is teenagers, so they would be in the Formal Operational Stage of Piaget's theory . The children in my class are definitely preoccupied with their biological changes in growth and sexual development. They can understand that nothing is absolute, everything is relative. Are students given the opportunity to construct knowledge by actively exploring their environments? In my classrooms specifically, the teachers are all about allowing the students to explore their environments. We do a lot of hands-on stuff in the classroom to help build life skills. Our students are in the ESE program and they attend the Access Points program. We help the students build social emotional skills on a daily basis as well. In the recent modules, we have explored quite a few theories in regard to development. We had to compare Vygotsky's and Piaget's theories. I think ...