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In my particular case study scenario, I have a small group of students who do not seem to get anything done while they are working together. The dynamic of the group is not working and because of this, they are unable to get their work accomplished. Lisa seems to be the one that continuously distracts the small group and makes it hard for them to focus. 

From a behaviorist standpoint, I would make sure that I am praising the group when they are doing something well such as completing a task or working well together. Since I want the behavior of bickering or the group not cooperating well to stop, I will make sure that I am ignoring that and not giving into their bickering or back talk. Instead I will focus on praising them for their work that they are doing and the task that they are accomplishing in order to reduce their negative behavior. 

As far as constructivist approaches goes, I liked a lot of the suggestions that were listed on this particular website. On this website, one of the key approaches that I really liked was the one that said "verbalize the cause-and-effect relationship when negative consequences occur". In this particular instance, I think it is extremely important for kids to mold their own understanding of why consequences are happening and how they can learn from them. If we are scolding kids on their negative behavior, they are likely to tense up and not respond well. If we are instead coming at the negative behavior with a more positive and loving approach and asking the kids questions about their behaviors to help them think, the kids are both learning that it is not okay to behave certain ways but also that they need to be responsible for their actions and mold an understanding of what it looks like to learn from mistakes. 

Both of the approaches are useful when disciplining kids and both approaches I tend to use regularly. My camp taught a lot about constructivist approaches and the effects of kids understand the consequences and changing their behavior and I use behavioral approaches when I am tutoring a child. 

http://tigger.uic.edu/~lnucci/MoralEd/practices/practice1devries.html