Blog #2 Learning Theories

This week in my observations I noticed that my fieldwork teacher, Ms. Booth, used several learning theories in her classroom to help facilitate learning and classroom management. The theory I observed her use most was behaviorism.  One of the ways that I saw behaviorism was when the students brought back a signed paper they were given a candy. They also had several systems such as class and table tally marks, which the reward was never stated but I can imagine that when the class gets so many points they get a reward.
As an incentive to follow along and participate they had a class money system where they would receive paper pennies they could put in their "banks". I like this idea because it encourages students to participate every step of the way, but it is also a way to encourage learning. You can use money to teach about money, and economy.  As well as use it to teach about simple addition and subtraction. Money is something that can be related to the real life, and teach them about actual life experiences they will use. I really enjoyed my time in the classroom this week. It gave me lots of ideas of things I could implement in my own class one day.