As a future Intervention Specialist, I have unfortunately not had the chance to actually be taught by a Special Education teacher, but I have had the chance to help an instructor at my elementary school throughout my high school years. The one theory that I think Mrs. Tebbe used the most was the cognitive theory because she took the time to fully understand each student, their behavior tactics and their thought processes throughout the years that they spent in her classroom.

An example of her demonstration of the cognivist theory was when she worked with a boy named Austin who suffered with ADHD. Austin was never cooperative in his classes and lost his temper very easily. So Mrs. Tebbe created a whole new lesson plan for Austin, which included short breakdowns of the material that he was learning in his different classes with a lot more hands on activity than what they were doing in the other classrooms. She was extremely patient and very smart with Austin and really perfected the cognitive theory.

I will definately try to use this theory in my classroom. It is something that I think will take a lot of practice but hopefully I will be able to perfect it throughout the years like Mrs. Tebbe was able to do.