Case Study
Tim Vliet
Case Study Assignment
Dr. Bruno
CKA
November 16, 2012
Vliet1 Teachers conduct their classes in different ways. Each use different strategies and tactics in order to better their students’ learning. They adjust to the different learning styles of the students in their classrooms in hopes of engaging their students fully. The film Stand and Deliver, tells the story of how a teacher, Jamie Escalante, transforms his class from delinquents into AP calculus students. The case, “Sandy’s Kindergarten Class,” describes Sandy’s different stations that she had set up to help her students develop different abilities. The case, “Processing Mathematical Information,” speaks about Mr. Dumphy’s strategies for teaching basic addition and subtraction to his third grade class in hopes of catching them up in curriculum and getting to multiplication and division. A. Video – Stand and Deliver
1. Scene - The very first scene of the movie takes place in a classroom. The students are not very well behaved and the teacher clearly has zero control over them. Out of nowhere, a bell rings. The students take this as their excuse to leave class. From what they know, when they hear a bell ring, they get to leave. Unfortunately, the class was not over, and the students had to return to the room. This can be related to Ivan Pavlov’s behaviorism theory, called classical conditioning, which is “a form of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elect a similar response” (Santrock, G-1).
2. Scene – There was a scene where the teacher, Jamie Escalante, asks the class a question. He called on a few different people for the answer. Each student responded with the same answer, though Mr. Escalante said it was incorrect. This can relate to
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Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory, which is “that social and cognitive factors, as well as behavior, play important roles in learning”
Case Study Assignment
Dr. Bruno
CKA
November 16, 2012
Vliet1 Teachers conduct their classes in different ways. Each use different strategies and tactics in order to better their students’ learning. They adjust to the different learning styles of the students in their classrooms in hopes of engaging their students fully. The film Stand and Deliver, tells the story of how a teacher, Jamie Escalante, transforms his class from delinquents into AP calculus students. The case, “Sandy’s Kindergarten Class,” describes Sandy’s different stations that she had set up to help her students develop different abilities. The case, “Processing Mathematical Information,” speaks about Mr. Dumphy’s strategies for teaching basic addition and subtraction to his third grade class in hopes of catching them up in curriculum and getting to multiplication and division. A. Video – Stand and Deliver
1. Scene - The very first scene of the movie takes place in a classroom. The students are not very well behaved and the teacher clearly has zero control over them. Out of nowhere, a bell rings. The students take this as their excuse to leave class. From what they know, when they hear a bell ring, they get to leave. Unfortunately, the class was not over, and the students had to return to the room. This can be related to Ivan Pavlov’s behaviorism theory, called classical conditioning, which is “a form of associative learning in which a neutral stimulus becomes associated with a meaningful stimulus and acquires the capacity to elect a similar response” (Santrock, G-1).
2. Scene – There was a scene where the teacher, Jamie Escalante, asks the class a question. He called on a few different people for the answer. Each student responded with the same answer, though Mr. Escalante said it was incorrect. This can relate to
Vliet 2
Albert Bandura’s social cognitive theory, which is “that social and cognitive factors, as well as behavior, play important roles in learning”