ed 300: human growth and learning welcome opening prayer
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ED 300: Human Growth and Learning
WelcomeOpening Prayer
Review:Cognitive Development: • Students need challenging situations and tasks to
promote cognitive development. (disequilibrium, schemes, assimilation, accommodation)
Personal and Social growth: • Students need teachers who use a authoritative
teaching style and will take time to discuss moral issues as they arise.
Differences• Cultural, Gender, Individual
Model of Human Memory
Knowledge Construction
Content/ Objectives• I will identify ways to promote effective
knowledge construction Language Objectives:• I will write a lesson plan using strategies
that will promote effective knowledge construction
Human Memory Model
Sensory Register
• Focus/Attention• Notes• Involvement• Variety of
strategies• Minimize
distractions
Short Term Memory
• Repeat• Pacing• Guidelines
Long Term Memory
• Meaningful activities• Elaboration –
Feelings• Organization• Visual Imagry• Practice
Knowledge Construction
Constructive Processes in Learning and MemoryConstruction: Learner takes many separate pieces of information and uses them to build an overall understanding or interpretation
• Construction in Storage– Prior knowledge, facts, experiences
• Construction in Retrieval– Retrieval error
Knowledge Construction
• Knowledge Construction as a Social Process – LC #1 Expressive language
– Must clarify and organize– Tend to elaborate– Exposed to the views of others– Model effective ways of thinking for each other– Discover flaws and inconsistencies in their own thinking– Discover how people from different cultures may
interpret a topic– With support of others one can practice more
sophisticated learning and reasoning skills
Organizing Knowledge
• Concepts – Mentally grouping objects or events that are similar
• Schemas and Scripts
• Theories– Pg. 226
• Worldviews– Big Bang vs. Divine creation
Organizing KnowledgeSchema
Seashell (concept)
The empty shell of an
ocean animal
What kind of ocean animals
have shells?
How do you clean a shell?
What can you do with the
shells?
What are shells made of?
Human Memory Model
Sensory Register Short Term Memory
Long Term Memory
• Concepts• Schema & Scripts• Theories• Worldviews
Human Memory Model
Sensory Register
• Focus/Attention• Notes• Involvement• Variety of
strategies• Minimize
distractions
Short Term Memory
• Repeat• Pacing• Guidelines
Long Term Memory
• Meaningful activities• Elaboration –
Feelings• Organization• Visual Imagry• Practice
Promoting Effective Knowledge Construction
Modeling and Experimentation
LC#6 Explicit Teaching: I Do, We Do
Emphasizing Conceptual UnderstandingConceptual understanding is when students form many logical connections among related concepts and principles.
SIOP-Activating Background Knowledge
Promoting Effective Knowledge Construction
Teaching strategies to help students develop conceptual understanding:
• Provide the facts within the context of the subject matter– S&I: Content and Context
• Organize units around a few core ideas
• Explore topics in depth
Promoting Effective Knowledge Construction
• Explain how new ideas relate to students’ personal experiences– Elaborate, S&I Feel the truth
• Through classroom meaningful activities, students learn that understanding concepts are more important than knowledge of isolated facts.– SIOP: Lesson Preparation, Strategies
• Ask students to teach others what they have learned. – LC: #1 Expressive Language, #7 Read & Retell
Promoting Effective Knowledge Construction
Encouraging Classroom Dialogue• Students remember new ideas more accurately when they
talk to each other. – LC#1 Expressive Language, Feel the Truth
Assigning Authentic Activities• Authentic activities are similar to those they might
experience in the outside world. – Writing will improve in both quality and quantity if students write
essays, stories, and letters instead of workbook activities. • LC#1 Expressive Language,
– Problem-based learning– Project-based learning– Service learning
Promoting Effective Knowledge Construction
Scaffolding Theory Construction– SIOP: Strategies
Creating a Community of Learners
When Knowledge Construction Goes Awry
• A misconception is a belief that is inconsistent with commonly accepted and well-validated explanations of phenomena or events.
• Conceptual change is a process of revising or overhauling an existing theory or belief system in such a way that new, discrepant information can be better understood and explained.
When Knowledge Construction Goes Awry
• Identify existing misconceptions before instruction begins.
• Look for – and build on – elements of truth in students’ existing understandings.
• When pointing out errors or weaknesses in students’ reasoning or beliefs, preserve their self-esteem.
• Monitor what students say and write for persistent misconceptions.
Assignment
1. Write a lesson plan you will use before the end of the school year.
2. Label the concept or schema that will be the focus of the lesson.
3. Include and label activities which will promote effective knowledge construction.
Knowledge Construction
Content/ Objectives• I will identify ways to promote effective
knowledge construction Language Objectives:• I will write a lesson plan using strategies
that will promote effective knowledge construction