Piaget TIPR

In my field experience, rather than just throw something new at the kids, the teacher tries to make the information fun. She tries to relate it back to something that they enjoy, for example, one students really struggles with colors, and he gets upset while working on them, so we assigned each color to a super hero, which he loves, and that helps him to assimilate the colors with the super heros which makes it so he has less disequilibrium about working on colors and we are able to work on them for longer periods of time before he decides he is uncompliant with them. I am struggling to relate this to accommodation though I know there is a relation, I think it would be where before super heros were just super heros and colors were just colors, but now they are a combined thing rather than two separate things.

I think that in the classroom I am in most all of the kids are still in the sensorimotor stage, though their age says they would be in the preoperational stage. We do have a few that are starting to be in the preoperational stage also though. I think that the main need for the students is to have equilibration in their lives, which is very hard to create for students with severe disabilities. The way we can do this better is to relate things to what they enjoy and to do a lot of play while teaching. Teaching through play is one of the best ways to see development in the students in this class.

When I teach my mini lesson, I want to help the kids adapt to the new information by making sure it is a lot of play involved in the process of learning for them. I will try to relate my lessons to things that they enjoy, or add things that they enjoy into them (many of the students like trains, so for counting we would count toy trains rather than just counting something plain that they are not interested in.

I think it is a lot simpler in a preschool to help students with having less disequilibrium or at least with coping better with it because young students can be easily distracted and manipulated into believing something that they don’t enjoy is fun.