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Chapter 5 in Breitborde and Swiniarski

Chapter 5 in Breitborde and Swiniarski. Thinking About Learning. Breitborde and Swiniarski. Resist the idea that “prescribed materials and specific guidelines for teachers will make the curriculum almost “teacher-proof.”. Teaching is (should be) an Optimistic Line of Work.

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Chapter 5 in Breitborde and Swiniarski

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  1. Chapter 5 in Breitborde and Swiniarski Thinking About Learning

  2. Breitborde and Swiniarski • Resist the idea that “prescribed materials and specific guidelines for teachers will make the curriculum almost “teacher-proof.”

  3. Teaching is (should be) an Optimistic Line of Work • Existentialists and Progressives see themselves as allowing children to be actors in their own education • Behaviorists understand their role (and power) in shaping and modeling experiences for children

  4. I attend class because • I paid for this experience • My parents paid for this • I want to grow • I love the ideas • I fear failure • I’m rewarded by A’s

  5. Importance of Reflection • Reflective Practice – teacher is engaged with thinking about how students learn, and with all of the teacher attitudes, behaviors, philosophies, and dispositions which shape student-teacher interaction and affect student learning. • Sometimes called ‘Critical Pedagogy’

  6. Behaviorism • Behaviorism is often ‘invisible’ in our own lives.....example of family structures that include behaviorism in greater or lesser degrees. • Teacher – authority- behavioristic modes and questions we might have…. • Mr. Keating in Dead Poets’ Society • Mr. Hand in Fast Times @ Ridgemont High

  7. Behaviorism • Classical Conditioning • Operant Conditioning • Extrinsic Rewards • Intrinsic Rewards • Learning Kits • Learning and Modeling

  8. Learning Theory and your Hypothetical Midterm • Study…. Lock in an A – wait till May to find out • Party ….likely get a B – wait till May to find out • Party ….be with friends… enjoy some doughnuts, fall in love….immediate feedback

  9. I would probably…. • Stay Home and Study • Attend the party

  10. Learning as Development • Some room for overlap with behaviorism, but emphasis is on the biological stages of child development • Stage Theories of Development and Learning • Related to 1950s, 60’s, and 70’s cognitive revolution

  11. Piaget • Sensorimotor • Pre-Operational • Concrete Operational • Concrete Operational • Formal Operational

  12. Constructivism • Sometimes called Social Constructivism or Constructivist learning theory. • Builds on John Dewey – learning is experiential and social (and democratic). • Lev Vygotsky at center of theory – challenges the omission of social and mentor in Piaget • Jerome Bruner – cognitive and social and narrative

  13. Lev Vygotsky • Towering figure in contemporary educational theory about learning • Educational Psychology • Mind In Society • Thought and Language

  14. Vygotsky • Zone of Proximal Development or ZPD • Notion of ‘scaffolded’ learning • Learners start from developmental stage and add to learning through supports.

  15. Learning Styles • Tremendous Variety of Theory • Auditory, Kinesthetic, Visual, Verbal • Gregorc: • Concrete-Sequential • Concrete Random • Abstract Sequential • Abstract Random

  16. I like to study.. • Enter answer text...

  17. I like to study • With Music • In a dark room • In the library • Outside • While active • With others • In silence • With a book

  18. Basic Factors • Physical • Social • Emotional • Persistence? • Example of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

  19. Howard Gardner • Multiple Intelligences Theory • Grounded in Stage Theory, but chiefly a reaction to overuse of Intelligence Testing • Binet’s Intelligence Quotient, • Examples of Immigration Policy in US.

  20. Multiple Intelligences • Linguistic • Logical-Mathematical • Musical • Spatial • Kinesthetic • Interpersonal –Intrapersonal • Also? Naturalistic, Existential (spiritual)

  21. Criteria According to Gardner • Living examples • Core-cognitive properties • Developmental trajectory • Evolutionary plausibility • Experimental research • Psychometric findings • Symbolic encoding • Isolated in Brain

  22. I would characterize myself as…. • Enter answer text...

  23. I would characterize myself as… • Verbal-linguistic • Kinesthetic • Musical • Logical Mathematical • Interpersonal • Intrapersonal • Spatial • Naturalistic • Existential

  24. Technology and Learning • Wealth and Poverty • Urban, Suburban, and Rural • Gender • Age • “Digital Natives” versus “Digital Immigrants”

  25. Technology • Maryanne Wolf of Tufts University speculates that technology will change brains vis a vis literacy. • Janet Healy argues this in “Endangered Minds”

  26. Culture and Learning Style • Importance of Affect in Teaching and Learning • Sociocultural factors • Socio-economic factors • Historical Factors

  27. Culturally Responsive Teaching • Anecdotes – Importance of Teacher reflection and sensitive and versatile pedagogy.

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