Behaviorism

A behaviorist style of teaching focuses on the importance of the environment shaping the behavior.  The style focuses on hands-on training and incorporates accountability. I have a behaviorist style of teaching.  I believe that only so much can be learned within the confines of a traditional classroom.  There needs to be hands-on interaction to better develop skills.  In the fire service we are consistently working on skill development and trying to better our crews.  I feel that this leads to a very strong behaviorist approach to learning.  We hold each other accountable for our specific roles and behaviors.  Most of our testing is a competency-based style of testing which also points towards a behaviorist orientation.  

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