Explain how you might use shaping to help students learn a difficult concept or skill. Be specific - choose a specific concept or skill and narrate how you will shape it. Remember that shaping MUST include reinforcement for each successive attempt.
Shaping:
Difficult Skill: Linear Inequalities.
Step 1. Review Inequalities - Play quick review game. Students enjoy playing and it allows the students to feel success when they get the right answer.
Step 2. Graphing of lines - Every day they walk in, we'll do the desk hunting game where students will be given an equation and they will need to find the seat that has the correct graph on it. In order to motivate them to learn it well, I will have days where if all the students can find their correct seat in a certain amount of time, they can chose their own seat the next day.
Step 3. Graphing Inequalities - I can add these into the Seat Swapping activity too, but I could also do challenges in class for the kids to be able to explain when and where to shade, etc. These challenges can be set up like an obstacle course. They would move through the course by answering the questions correctly. Half of the kids would be at stations while the other half moved through the course. Then they would switch. This activity provides motivation for the students by creating a desire for them to complete the course but my motives would be to have them accomplish the goals for the lesson.
I know these are all games type activities. I was having a hard time thinking of other things that could act as reinforcers.
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