Understanding Your Students

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Understanding Your Students

• Brian Parr-
• The University
• Of Georgia

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The Reflective Teacher

• Students were thought of as empty vessels
• -Tabula Rosa
• Teachers were the source of knowledge and it was
  the students responsibility to learn.

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The Reflective Teacher

• The reflective teacher constantly evaluates the
  effectiveness of their instruction.
• Then adapt their instruction to the needs of
  their students.
• Draw on the experiences of the students
• Deemphasize lecture and encourage student
  involvement.
• Poor Scholar Soliloquy

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Adaptive Teaching

• Achieving a common instructional goal with
  learners of differing learning styles, abilities,
  etc.
• 2 effective approaches
• Remediation Approach
• Compensatory Approach

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Remediation

• Effort is made to level the playing field.
• Review of math skills before you teach a lesson
  that involves math.

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Compensatory Approach

• Method compensates for lack of ability or
  knowledge among students.
• Group work
• Visuals
• Authentic Situations

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Intelligence???Howard GardnerFrames of Mind
(1983)

• Challenged that intelligence could be
  objectively measured and reduced to a single
  number or IQ score
• MA 12 ma 12 ma
• IQ ------- IQ100 ------ IQ133
  -------
• PA 12 pa 9 pa

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Environment vs. Heredity

• Are learners born or made?
• Language in the homes of minorities.
• Can you make up for bad genes??

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The Eight Intelligences

• Linguistic Intelligence - the capacity to use
  words effectively, either orally or in writing.
• Logical-Mathematical Intelligence - the capacity
  to use numbers effectively and reason well
• Spatial Intelligence - the ability to perceive
  the visual-spatial world accurately and perform
  transformations upon those perceptions

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• Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence - expertise in
  using ones body to express ideas and feeling.
• Musical Intelligence - the capacity to perceive,
  discriminate, transform, and express musical
  forms.
• Interpersonal Intelligence - the ability to
  perceive and make distinctions in the moods,
  intentions, motivations, and feelings of others.

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• Intrapersonal - self knowledge and the ability to
  act adaptively on the basis of that knowledge.

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• Naturalist Intelligence- observing,
  understanding, and organizing patterns in the
  natural environment.

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Sternbergs Definition

• Intelligence is the ability to learn and think
  using previously discovered patterns and
  relationships to solve new problems in unfamiliar
  contexts.

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Peer Groups

• Build groups from different peer groups.
• Use students as mentors for less mature.
• Build students up to each other before forming
  groups.

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Systems-Ecological Perspective

• The learners behavior is a product of multiple
  influences that may be conflicting.

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Biases in the Classroom

• Expectations- The self-fulfilling prophesy.
• Tigers, Cardinals and Clowns.

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Eliminating Bias

• Spread interactions evenly.
• Give special assignments randomly.
• Pair opposites.