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Cognitive Strategies and its Effect on Long-Term Projects

Cognitive Strategies and its Effect on Long-Term Projects. Peter G. Mohn Glacier Peak High School September 2012. Learned Capabilities. Intellectual Skills Verbal Information Cognitive Strategies Affective Domain Motor Skills. Types of Cognitive Strategies. Rehearsal Strategies

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Cognitive Strategies and its Effect on Long-Term Projects

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  1. Cognitive Strategies and its Effect on Long-Term Projects Peter G. Mohn Glacier Peak High School September 2012

  2. Learned Capabilities • Intellectual Skills • Verbal Information • Cognitive Strategies • Affective Domain • Motor Skills

  3. Types of Cognitive Strategies • Rehearsal Strategies • Elaboration Strategies • Organizing Strategies • Comprehension Monitoring Strategies • Affective Strategies

  4. Cognitive Strategies for Project Design • Organizing Strategies • Arranging material into an organized framework • Outlining main ideas • Generating new organizations • Comprehension Monitoring Strategies (Metacognition - thinking about thinking) • Setting goals for learning • Monitoring progress • Estimating the success with which goals are being met

  5. Good News About Cognitive Strategies • All humans have all their cognitive functions by age 12 • Our students can easily learn good cognitive strategies

  6. Bad News About Cognitive Strategies • Students use poor cognitive strategies in their life • Students will continue to use poor cognitive strategies until a major crisis happens • If a student doesn’t have a cognitive strategy for a new concept they’ll use the closest strategy they know • Learning new cognitive strategies takes several efforts

  7. 9th Grade Students & Long-Term Project Design • The average freshman doesn’t know how to manage a long-term project • The average freshman doesn’t have the cognitive strategies for conducting a long-term project • More than 80% of our students will use short-term project strategies to manage their long-term projects • The vast majority of students will wait until the last minute to work on their long-term projects

  8. What Can Teachers Do to Help Students Be Successful With Long-Term Projects • Teach students good cognitive strategies • Modeling and multiple due dates • Graphic organizers • Assign points for completing each step in the long-term project • Monitor student progress throughout the project • Work with students who fall behind on their projects • Grizzly period • Tutoring

  9. Assignment Topic Selection - 5 pts Research complete (note cards) - 20 pts Outline - 25 pts Rough Draft - 25 pts Final Paper - 100 pts Technology Story board - 10 pts PowerPoint (words only) - 20 pts Add graphics, animation, etc. - 20 pts. Presentation Outline - 10 pts Note cards - 15 pts Oral report - 100 pts Modeling Project Design Example

  10. Project Graphic OrganizerExample • Students create project timeline - 25 pts • Students meet project deadlines - 50 pts • Final Paper - 100 pts • Technology component - 75 pts • Oral Report - 100 pts

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