chapter 2 reflection

     This week a learned about learning styles, that everybody has different learning styles like behaviorist, cognitivist, and constructivist. The person who learning style is behaviorist acquires behaviors, skills, and knowledge in response to the rewards, punishments, or withheld responses associated with them. The cognitivist learner focus his or her learning as a mental operation, this learner probably likes math and science. The constructivist learner based his or her learning on the experiences within which those mental processes occurred. Knowing what kind of learner my student is I can use different teaching styles to make the learning easy for them, and technology is and important factor in teaching and learning today’s day. Also I learned that environmental factors like interrupt communication, loud, dim lighting, excessive movement, uncomfortable temperatures, and psychological factors like a highly emotional or traumatic events, affects the student’s learning. That’s why it is important to have a good communication and feedback between teachers and students. Another important thing I learned is that in the recent years has been an increment of multicultural classrooms in schools. There are students of different countries with different cultures, beliefs, values and languages. To have a successful multicultural classroom the teacher has to learn about those cultures and teach it to all the students, and the most important thing is respect their cultures and do that students respect each other too. Be patient with the students who’s English is their second language and motivate them everyday to don’t lose their native language, and work with their parents to achieve a successful education for those students.