Transcript Understanding Your Students

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.