Piaget Adapt To The Environment

I personally would use Piaget’s theories in my teaching environment. Piaget believed that the children would adapt to their environment, rather than the environment would adapt to them. I would use assimilation, this is where the teacher transforms the environment so that the environment can be transformed to fit into preexisting cognitive structures (Cole & Wertsch, 1996, p. xx).
I would also practice accommodation. This way I would adapt the environment to the child learning ability. I would use a healthy balance of assimilation, and accommodation. I want to balance the mental ability of my students. I want the children to master what they’re being taught. As well as I want them to feel comfortable about preforming the task they have been