Reflection Two

The behaviorist lesson plan and the constructivist lesson plan are just one of the many different lesson plans known in the world today. Yet these two formats differ in various ways. A behaviorist lesson plan format is created with eight certain steps while a constructivist lesson plan has only six steps .I will be discussing a few of them. The first thing that starts off a behaviorist lesson plan is an objective. The objective is the main key to this lesson plan which basically explains what it is that the child would do and what it is that the child will know by the end of the lesson itself. On the other hand constructivist lesson plan format starts off with situation. With the situation section you are basically creating a section that leaves the lesson open for children to ask questions and to put forth their ideas. The next part on the behaviorist lesson plan is the anticipatory set. That part is used to gather the student’s attention. Which prepares the children for the next activity that the teacher has prepared, it’s like going in a sequence form. For example, you bake a loaf of bread for some children. When the bread is finished you take it out of the oven to let it cool. In the mean time while the bread is baking, you take the children in the bathroom to wash up. This is to prepare them for the freshly baked bread that is awaiting them. The next part of the constructivist lesson plan format is grouping. Grouping is done with grouping children and grouping materials. With grouping materials it goes back to the situation of answering the student’s questions. Input is the next section in the behaviorist format. With input, the teacher is inputting information into a child by using the daily activities in the classroom. This such as math, reading, vocabulary, etc. these are things that are helpful to the student’s. That tends to be a very good thing because children could use that hidden information later on down the line. Another part of the constructivist lesson plan is the bridge. A bridge can never be complete without the whole bridge. You can not cross a bridge that is halfway completed. That is exactly how it goes in the bridge section of a lesson plan. A teacher must meet a student half way with what the student knows. Like bringing the students halfway with what she wants them to know. In conclusion, either method of the lesson plans are a good approach to the goal that the teacher wants to reach.