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I'm never comin' back to school! Never! Billy! I swear, I'm sick. I can't go to school.

Billy developed a negative response towards school after Miss Vaughn gave him a hard time about his cursive and the students laughed at him. Pavlov’s theory of behaviorism is similar to this situation because there was classical conditioning. Billy gained anxiety and fear which makes him not want to go back to school.

[http://www.springfieldspringfield.co.uk/movie_script.php?movie=billy-madison] In perfect cursive. Any more brain-busters? Rizzuto.

The teacher, Miss Vaughn challenges Billy with a difficult word to spell in cursive. She provides him with instruction that is outside his comfort level. This is similar to Piaget’s practice by infusing opportunities for disequilibrium into the classroom learning.

In these scene Billy is asked about the Industrial Revolution. Here cognitive development is used because he remembers the story he read in first grade and tries to tie the Industrial Revolution in with that story. Although at the end he still does not answer the question, he remembers the story about the dog and tries to explain that the revolution is just like the dog. He says that the puppy was like the industry. Hes trying to connect what he learned before to answer the question. He made a decision to use this example even though it was not right.

Here Billy's friends are giving him notes from previous years to help him win the decathlon. Here we can see that Billy is taking high school seriously. Although Billy wants to min he wants to prove that he can learn and be just as smart. His moral development has drastically changed here because he now actually want to know the material. It looked like before he just wanted to pass the grade levels without actually doing all the word. He now knows in order to improve and get better he hast to change the way he thinks. He chooses a different path.

Here Ms. Vaughn visits Billy at his house and tells him to go back to school and claim his company. Billy doesn't want o but Ms. Vaughn convinces him to go back. Here Billy has a since of stability and the meaning of error because Ms. Vaughn will be there to help him. Even though some people do not believe in him anymore she does. But was is right or professional of Ms. Vaughn to show up at Billy's house unannounced? Is is right to have a relationship with him?

In these scene Billy is asked to write some words in cursive on the board. Ms. Vaughn is challenging him by giving him hard words and making him write on his own. Although he does end up spelling the words correctly, he cannot write z's in cursive which makes him angry. This makes Billy really angry and the teacher does nothing about it. This kind of task should be done with the help of a teacher in order for him to develop.

In this scene, Billy is in a class spelling bee against another student. As the student is spelling her word, she gets a letter wrong, and Billy interjects letting her know she is wrong. As we have learned, students learn through social constructivism. In our future classroom, we will have students who, like Billy, interrupt class and even make comments that can hurt another student's learning environment. How would you cater to both students in a case like this, where you know you have a student who constantly makes inappropriate remarks? Yes, there should be discipline for that student, but also like we've talked about in class, if you discipline a student so much then it can turn them away from learning. How can you manage a classroom to make it an optimal environment that encourages learning for those who make outbursts and those who comply with rules and routines?

In this scene, Miss Vaughn admits that she likes Billy. Although Bill is no longer her student, is it appropriate for Miss Vaughn to engage in a relationship with him? There have been many instances where a student graduates and then marries one of his or her teachers, as what happened at a Catholic high school I attended. Is it right to engage in a relationship with your student once he or she is has graduated?

Billy is older than the rest of the students he is in class with, therefore his sense of humor is intended for an older audience. Thinking about the comments Billy makes and how the students around him do not understand it, it made me think of my own school experience. Sometimes peers would make comments that I wouldn't understand, and I would go home and ask my parents about it. Majority of the time, it would be something inappropriate that my parents did not want me knowing until I was older, yet it was ruined because of the comments students made at school. Some of the inappropriate comments peers would make would be in front of the teacher, and the teacher wouldn't say anything. As a future teacher, how can we try our best to keep the innocence of our children? How would you handle a situation if parents came to you telling you that their child was exposed to something inappropriate in your class?

This scene is another reinforcement of how fast Billy is going through the grades in order to graduate. Having only two weeks per grade, Billy has to pass every grade before June 15th. Billy is following what Albert Bandura calls self-efficiancy. In order to make the deadline, Billy has to organize and set goals in order to accomplish the task of graduating on the time set. Billy had to be persistent in order to learn all he did in the few short weeks he had. For example, he went from having recess and having story time, to two weeks later having to take exams and no recess. A student should be eased into each new environment, but Billy had to set goals and be persistent about sticking to them.

In this scene, Ernie calls Miss Vaughn for Billy to find out if she would ever consider dating one of her students. Johnston talks about building relationships with students, but to what extent? You want your children to be comfortable with you, but where do you draw the line? How would you respond if you were in this type of situation, as many times students do have crushes on their teachers.

In this scene, Miss Vaughn seems as if she is trying to help Billy to pass the third grade in the two weeks he is there. While it seems that she tries to challenge him to master his cursive skills, she actually used what could have been a learning experience to instead tear Billy down. As Johnston says to do, Miss Vaughn did ask Billy if he wanted to write on the board--this allowed Billy to have a choice. Miss Vaughn did also tap into Billy's ZPD, as discovered by Lev Vygotsky, however she did it in a wrong manner. Billy spelt the first word, "dugout" correctly, and Miss Vaughn then challenged him with another word, "bunt." This word Billy also was able to spell on his own without any assistance. Miss Vaughn then told Billy to spell "Rizzuto," a challenging word for Billy as he did not know how to write a 'z' in cursive. Miss Vaughn could tell that Billy did not know how to write his z's on his own, yet she still made him perform a task he was incapable of without her help, thus causing him to get so frustrated that he never wanted to go back. Spelling the word, "Rizzuto" should have been done with the help of the teacher--the middle part of the ZPD, because it was a task that Billy could have completed with the help of Miss Vaughn showing him how to write a 'z' in cursive.