Think out loud

In completing this assignment I asked my peer what she knows about social problem solving, being a teacher in the special education department how to deal with confrontation will definitely be an everyday challenge for most of these students. When asking her to just think out loud about what she thought about social problem solving she immediately stopped and thought about a recent problem that she dealt with. She also referred to what she had done in the past using her previous schemas and how her skills in this department have developed and grown as she has found out what works and what doesn’t work when it comes to either confronting another individual or being confronted herself. In doing this she was demonstrating the constructive learning theory. After thinking about her previous confrontations she then listed a bunch of steps on how to look a the problem and deal with it. She first said that you have to look at the problem and figure out how your feeling about it, then talk about with her the peer you having the problem with but wait until you have both cooled off from the situation, then both take turns speaking and allowing each other to state their sides of the story, then come to a conclusion and talk about what both of you can do to avoid this situation in the future. Also, she said that when dealing with a problem that you should avoid speaking with others about the situation and to just deal with it by going directly to the person. She also gave a specific example of a problem that she dealt with which in doing so was demonstrating the Developmental Learning Theory.