Classroom Set-up and Management
Classroom management applies to a teacher's ability to organize a student's, space, time, and material to maximize effective teaching and student learning. It is imperative to set up the classroom that's conducive for learning according to the age group you're teaching. Piaget felt that adolescents, much more than school age children, operate with possibilities in addition to reality, and they are more likely to use deductive logic. According to Piaget, a child builds mental maps, schemes or networked concepts for understanding and responding to physical experiences within their environment, University of Phoenix (Ed.) (2002).
When setting-up your classroom, post the most important information in an area that the student has easy access to. Have thoughtful and hands on items and reference materials around the classroom that is age appropriate. Allow time for students to access these teaching devices. When you're running the classroom from, give students responsibilities and roles and challenge them daily.
Assessment
Piaget's theory of student assessment remains applicable in the classroom today. He professed that a child will develop individual knowledge in a progressive, logical sequence. His intentions were not to necessarily measure intelligence, but to try and understand the intellectual mechanisms used in the solution of problems. In order to assess what the child has learned, he believed it was more beneficial to listen to what the child thought, rather than test him with exam questions, University of Phoenix (Ed.) (2002).