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PSY 201 Week 2 Assignment

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For confidentiality, I will use pseudonyms for the students I chose to profile. The first student I chose was Emma. When I began my field experience in February, Emma had just started third grade at Washington Elementary. She was from a well-educated family and was said to have been homeschooled. Emma was intriguing to me, because academically she was very behind and barely knew how to spell, use conventions and struggled to read and write. She was very sweet, but it was evident she was timid, which was probably due to being new as well as behind academically. The second student I chose is Connor. Connor was a very sweet student, but at times struggled in school. One of the main reasons why I chose Connor was because he reminded me of how my …show more content…

For example, he would often forget to use capital letters because he was going so fast. Connor had hard time following directions and often got in trouble for talking too much and when he is not supposed to. According to Piaget, Schemes are the building blocks of knowledge (Wolfolk 45). Emma and Connor use assimilation and accommodation in their learning. They use assimilation by fitting knowledge into previous schemes, but when they encountes an unfamiliar concept they must create a new scheme through accommodation. Emma and Connor would be in the concrete operational stage of cognitive …show more content…

She is hard working and follows directions. I saw these behaviors in the way she interacted with her peers. She was kind to everyone around her yet reserved at times. Even though Emma struggled and was behind in school, she still worked very hard and did not give up because she was not at the level of her classmates. For example, when I worked with her on writing sentences from her word study, she kept using incorrect spelling and conventions. Even though I was correcting her, she did not get upset with herself and she kept trying until she got it right. Connor has an outgoing personality and made friends easily, but at times would get on his peer’s nerves. (why?) He seemed scattered brained and moved very fast at everything he did, and therefore he would make

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