Understanding Your Students
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Understanding Your
Students
Brian ParrThe University
Of Georgia
The Reflective Teacher
Students were thought of as empty
vessels
-“Tabula Rosa”
Teachers were the source of knowledge
and it was the student’s responsibility to
learn.
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
Adaptive Teaching
Achieving a common instructional goal
with learners of differing learning styles,
abilities, etc.
2 effective approaches
Remediation Approach
Compensatory Approach
Remediation
Effort is made to level the playing field.
Review of math skills before you teach a
lesson that involves math.
Compensatory Approach
Method “compensates” for lack of ability
or knowledge among students.
Group work
Visuals
Authentic Situations
Intelligence???
Howard Gardner
Frames of Mind (1983)
Challenged that “intelligence could be objectively
measured and reduced to a single number or
“IQ” score
MA
IQ = ------PA
12 ma
12 ma
IQ=100 ------ IQ=133 ------12 pa
9 pa
Environment vs. Heredity
Are learners born or made?
Language in the homes of minorities.
Can you make up for bad genes??
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
Bodily-Kinesthetic Intelligence expertise in using one’s 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.
Intrapersonal - self knowledge
and the ability to act adaptively
on the basis of that
knowledge.
Naturalist Intelligence- observing,
understanding, and organizing patterns in
the natural environment.
Sternberg’s Definition
Intelligence is the ability to learn and
think using previously discovered
patterns and relationships to solve new
problems in unfamiliar contexts.
Peer Groups
Build groups from different peer groups.
Use students as mentors for less mature.
Build students up to each other before
forming groups.
Systems-Ecological
Perspective
The learner’s behavior is a product of
multiple influences that may be
conflicting.
Biases in the Classroom
Expectations- The self-fulfilling prophesy.
Tigers, Cardinals and Clowns.
Eliminating Bias
Spread interactions evenly.
Give special assignments randomly.
Pair opposites.