Theoretical Foundations Blog

My Freshman Algebra, and Sophomore geometry teacher was Mr. Sunderman. In his class he used the cognitivist perspective as well as a constructivist perspective. He demonstrated the cognitive ways in class by writing notes up on the board and having us follow along and he would give examples to us on the board. He then printed out the notes so we could view them and make mental notes on them. I don't think I will use this in the classroom because I know some students are hands on learners and they must be writing down and participate to learn the ideas. Sunderman showed his constructivist approach when he did projects because students were actually working together as a team to make something such as a dart board in our class. I will definitely use this perspective in a class because it gets the students involved and they learn very well from it.