Piaget's Concrete Operational Stage

A. Mrs. Cox was very effective when she taught. The students were excited to learn, and they were very eager to answer every question. She made all of the student’s sit correctly, and she made sure every student was listening. She made sure they knew she was in control, but she was not aggressive in any way.
B. Mrs. Cox’s classroom did show the use of Piaget’s Concrete Operational Stage. The children in Mrs. Cox’s class were mature enough to use logical thought (rules), but they could only apply the logic to the actual physical object. The students classified each letter in the alphabet into different groups by using physical block letters. They organized the vowels into one group, the consonants into one group, and the borrowed letters into one group.
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Divergent thinking, exploring many solutions in a creative way, was used in the classroom. The students were very creative. They got to make up sentences that had their sight words in it. The students used divergent thinking when they were talking about the practice DEA worksheet, but then the students used convergent thinking, ideas and information are organized, when they had to explain how they got their answer.
F. The students were very cooperative. They shared supplies, and they shared their shapes during centers. They helped each other when someone did not understand what was being taught. The students sat in a group of four, and at each table there was a leader. The teacher walked around and made sure each student was keeping up with their groups.
G. When Mrs. Cox told the students to be quite or to sit, they listened to her. The students did exactly what she told them too. She had complete control of the classroom, and anyone who walked into the classroom could tell.
H. Mrs. Cox wrote the word “field trip” on the board, and when the students where loud she would mark a letter off, and if she marked all the letters off, the students could not go in the field trip at the end of the