Helping students learn more effectively is a major goal of every teacher. As a teacher of 9th grade High School students it is important to realize efficient teaching methods to better achieve this goal. To help accomplish this we look towards two philosophy methods; the Behaviorist Paradigm and the Cognitive Theory of learning. The Behaviorist Paradigm (or classical and operant conditioning) teaches us that we learn based on how we interact with our environment. The Paradigm explains that the decisions we make in our environment have direct consequences, whether good or bad, and these consequences will affect our decision making capabilities, whether enticing us to do the action more often with good consequences or less often with bad consequences. The Cognitive Theory considers learning to be a mental change rather than an alteration in behavior. Cognitive Theory addresses inward phenomena such as memory, attention, concept learning, problem solving and reasoning. The Cognitive......
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