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How to Help Every Student Learn

How to Help Every Student Learn. Aneeta Rattan and Shantal Marshall Graduate Student TA Training Workshop January 8, 2007. Who is the perfect student?. Someone who is… Interested Eager to learn Involved Comes to OH Does all of the required work (and MORE!)

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How to Help Every Student Learn

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  1. How to Help Every Student Learn Aneeta Rattan and Shantal Marshall Graduate Student TA Training Workshop January 8, 2007

  2. Who is the perfect student? • Someone who is… • Interested • Eager to learn • Involved • Comes to OH • Does all of the required work (and MORE!) • Talks in class, asks interesting questions • Has a positive attitude towards learning the material

  3. How to encourage this behavior in all of your students • Theories of Intelligence • Consequences of the Theories

  4. Encouraging positive learning behaviors in all of your students • Your mission as a TA: • Be a LEARNING assistant for your students! • I.e. figure out how to help your students learn…don’t just present the material!

  5. Techniques to encourage incremental learning • Explain what the theories are • Specific strategies to… • Explain what they need to do as students • Do what you can to encourage an incremental perspective as their teacher

  6. On their side…tell them what to do and how to do it! • Teaching the theories… • Literally explain good learning strategies • Check up on them

  7. On your side…how to teach incrementally • Presenting information vs. presenting frameworks • Using the materials around you • Asking questions • How to praise

  8. Differing levels of previous knowledge • You are not the only teacher in the room • Pair up students strategically • Pick on everyone in the room • Give praise where it is called for

  9. Reconciling reality with how we want to teach… • How do students really react to the theories? • Are they convinced? • Theory resistance • Regression in the face of challenges • What can you do!?!?!

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