How People Learn

Which learning theory does the teacher in your service-learning placement seem to use the most? Provide examples from your observations to support your claim. Also, how does your teacher address the developmental level(s) and the individual learning preferences of her/his students?

Right now I am in a Special Ed classroom trying to do my service hours for my exceptional students class. I love my class that I volunteer with and have very little difficulties with the service assignment. The teacher I am job shadowing uses Behaviorism to re-enforce desire to learn as well as behave properly.  The method the teacher uses in this can be from as small as "Billy (named changed), you need to finish reading your book otherwise you can't go out to recess" to as much as a chart that the students receive stamps for that give them free time when they reach a certain amount.

The teacher I am job shadowing also helps the students by playing to their strengths in their learning preferences. There is a student I am working with closely that is very visual in his learning style.  We are trying to help this student be able to write short stories.  The student has trouble coming up with stories on their own so the teacher allows this student to draw out their own story then take that drawn out story and type it up on the computer.  The student still has difficulty spelling, but they are seeing that they can write and this individual is seeing that they have many ideas that they can put down on paper that they thought they didn't have once before.