Andy Ballard is a 17-year-old senior in high school who enjoys playing football and basketball, hanging out with friends, listening to music, and playing guitar. He is currently in Erikson's stage of identity vs. role confusion and Kohlberg's stage of maintaining law and order. In his history class, the students are learning about the Constitution by playing Jeopardy in teams, which Andy enjoys as it makes the class more interesting. In PE, the students play dodgeball to remain active without getting too sweaty. As a senior, Andy socializes more with his friends and prioritizes sports over his grades. While seeking independence, he remains reliant on his parents for support and is still subject

1. By: Garrett McDonald

2. STUDENT INFORMATION:
 Name: Andy Ballard
 Age: 17 years old
 Classification: Senior in
High School

3.  Playing football and basketball.
 Hanging out with my friends.
 Listening to music.
 Playing guitar.
 Favorite movie is Shawshank Redemption
 Favorite football team is University of
Alabama.
 Favorite band is The Eagles.
 Favorite subject is English.

4.  Formal Operational-the ability to deal with
potential or hypothetical situations; the form
is now separate from the content.
 11 years to adulthood
 Abstract and purely symbolic thinking possible.
 Problems can be solved through use of systematic
experimentation.

5.  Stage V of “Erikson’s Stages of Personal and Social
Development”
 12 to 18 years
 The question “Who am I?” becomes important during this
stage and will cause me to turn away from my parents and
towards my friends and peers.
 I will begin to experiment with varios
sexual, occupational, and educational roles as I try to find
out who I am and who I can be.
 My New sense of self, or “ego identity,” is no simply the
sum of the prior identifications but a reassembly or “an
alignment of my basic drives (ego) with my endowment
(resolutions of the previous crises) and my opportunities.

6.  Stage 4-”Law and Order” Orientation
 Society’s rules and laws replace those of my peer
group.
 A desire for social approval no longer determines
moral judgment.
 Laws are followed without question, and breaking
the law can never be justified.

7.  Cooperative Learning
 My peers are usually operating within each other’s
zones of proximal development (level of development
immediately above a person’s present level), we often
provide models for each other of slightly more
advanced thinking.
 Makes our inner speech available to others, so we can
gain insight into someone else's reasoning process.
 I benefit from “thinking out loud,” especially when my
classmates talk themselves through a problem.

8.  We are playing Jeopardy in our history class to learn
about the Constitution.
 The class is divided evenly into two teams and we take
turns choosing a category and the number of points
that be rewarded if answered correctly.
 The winning team will receive bonus points on the
next test.
 “I like playing this Jeopardy game in class because it is
fun and it makes the class interesting. Having bonus
points on the line makes me and my classmates take it
more seriously too.”-Andy Ballard

9.  In my P.E. class, we walk laps around the gym
for ten minutes, then we have the choice to
go sit down and talk to our friends or play
dodge ball.
 Dodge ball is a fun game that keeps us active
but doesn’t get us too sweaty or exhausted.
 Now that we’re seniors we don’t want to be
walking around school all sweaty and gross
for the remainder of the day, so dodge ball is
the perfect game for that.

10.  I am hanging out with my senior class a whole lot
more than I have in the past.
 Mostly hanging with my guy friends.
 Might take a girl out on a date every now and then or hang
out with a girl over the weekend or something.
 I’ve been less worried about my grades more than
usual and more focused on what I’m doing after
school or on the weekend.
 I find myself being easily persuaded by friends
especially when there are more than one of them
trying to convince me of the same thing.
 Sports are very high on my list of priorities and I take
them very seriously.

11.  My parents keep saying they know what’s best for me but I’m 17
and I can make my own decisions.
 I don’t tell them much about what goes on in my life anymore now
that I’m a lot closer to my friends.
 I am still reliant on them for money, my car, my house, and my cell
phone.
 They are still protective in the sense that I have to call them when I
get to my friends house to let them know I made it safely.
 I have a curfew of midnight on the weekends and they have to
know where I am.
 Very disappointed if I make bad grades or make the wrong
decisions.
 Disciplined with being grounded (no cell phone, can’t go
out, earlier curfew, etc.).