Bill Gates. Tedx
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
group cont.
Ladsen Billings:
The main thing I pulled out of this article was that we, as educators, must work hard to bridge the achievement gap that is evident in education.
In the article it gives several stats that indicate a gap of more than 20 points on average between Hispanic and African-American students to that of Caucasian Americans in the same classrooms.
disparaging aspect of the system that is called the education debt.
Like any debt, we must work hard to pay it off. As educators we have to make investments in the future, have to practice inclusion, and have to be open-minded to change.
Multiculturalism:
Race Relations
"Without curriculum intervention by teachers, the racial attitudes and behaviors of students become more negative and harder to change as they get older."
Curriculum interventions: plays, folk dances, music, role-playing
-What are some other examples you could use in your classroom?
Talked a lot about cooperative learning, "cooperative interracial contact situation in schools...have positive effects on both student interracial behavior and student academic achievement."
Much of the article had a negative feel to it; which is unfortunate because it is an important issue that many people want to change.
A 1972 study said that equal status between groups in interracial situations has to be deliberately structured by teachers or it will not exist. <--seriously? (optimism required)
--its been over 40yrs since this study, is this still the case?
"It is not uncommon for students of color who are a small minority in schools or university classes to believe their needs and priorities are low compared to those of white students."
Summary statement: Prejudice is caused by ignorance, can be reduced by interventions
It is important to create/allow opportunity for students to join superordinate groups to stimulate cohesion.
The main thing I pulled out of this article was that we, as educators, must work hard to bridge the achievement gap that is evident in education.
In the article it gives several stats that indicate a gap of more than 20 points on average between Hispanic and African-American students to that of Caucasian Americans in the same classrooms.
disparaging aspect of the system that is called the education debt.
Like any debt, we must work hard to pay it off. As educators we have to make investments in the future, have to practice inclusion, and have to be open-minded to change.
Multiculturalism:
Race Relations
"Without curriculum intervention by teachers, the racial attitudes and behaviors of students become more negative and harder to change as they get older."
Curriculum interventions: plays, folk dances, music, role-playing
-What are some other examples you could use in your classroom?
Talked a lot about cooperative learning, "cooperative interracial contact situation in schools...have positive effects on both student interracial behavior and student academic achievement."
Much of the article had a negative feel to it; which is unfortunate because it is an important issue that many people want to change.
A 1972 study said that equal status between groups in interracial situations has to be deliberately structured by teachers or it will not exist. <--seriously? (optimism required)
--its been over 40yrs since this study, is this still the case?
"It is not uncommon for students of color who are a small minority in schools or university classes to believe their needs and priorities are low compared to those of white students."
Summary statement: Prejudice is caused by ignorance, can be reduced by interventions
It is important to create/allow opportunity for students to join superordinate groups to stimulate cohesion.
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Analyze- What is the difference between authoritarian and authoritative parenting?
-Authoritative parenting is a parenting style that utilizes respect and expectations to hold children accountable. In an authoritative style home the child is supported and encouraged to do things on their own and make smart decisions for the long term. The parents in this style give a lot of decision making power to the children as they work together to move toward the future. These parents must be consistent and show patience throughout the learning process.
-Authoritarian parenting is a parenting style that is more behaviorist in character. It seems to be rather cause/effect and has the parent expecting total compliance and obedience. This style of parenting utilizes a lot of pressure internally to succeed and externally from the families expectations. This is a popular parenting style in many non-western cultures
Apply- Apply a tactic to combat the emergence of a subculture in your classroom.
I think a good way to avoid a negative subculture in my classroom is to constantly change the dynamic of the classroom. I want to keep my students on their toes and active in the classroom. I do not want them to be uncomfortable but a good bit of change is very good for growth and development. My hope is that by constantly shifting things around and giving students different roles I can keep more students engaged. I want to create an atmosphere that is open to all and avoids alienating others. In my classroom I want everyone to be as equal as possible and all work together towards a better education. The power of positive thinking.
-Authoritative parenting is a parenting style that utilizes respect and expectations to hold children accountable. In an authoritative style home the child is supported and encouraged to do things on their own and make smart decisions for the long term. The parents in this style give a lot of decision making power to the children as they work together to move toward the future. These parents must be consistent and show patience throughout the learning process.
-Authoritarian parenting is a parenting style that is more behaviorist in character. It seems to be rather cause/effect and has the parent expecting total compliance and obedience. This style of parenting utilizes a lot of pressure internally to succeed and externally from the families expectations. This is a popular parenting style in many non-western cultures
Apply- Apply a tactic to combat the emergence of a subculture in your classroom.
I think a good way to avoid a negative subculture in my classroom is to constantly change the dynamic of the classroom. I want to keep my students on their toes and active in the classroom. I do not want them to be uncomfortable but a good bit of change is very good for growth and development. My hope is that by constantly shifting things around and giving students different roles I can keep more students engaged. I want to create an atmosphere that is open to all and avoids alienating others. In my classroom I want everyone to be as equal as possible and all work together towards a better education. The power of positive thinking.
Thursday, November 21, 2013
Josh Justice Will Be Served
*This post is an attempt at a live blog (more like an immediate response)
to a presentation from Josh Justice on November 21, 2013.
Josh is an educator who works in Kentucky. He is an LPCA. SIGHTS
He works in a self-contained behavior unit. This unit primarily consists of students with IEP's, IQ's of 75+, and a learning disability while many are from low-income households.
He starts off observing students at their current schools, then he get the kids in the program to help them and give them the consistency they need. This is done because they are hoping to get them back into a standard classroom.
Has to deal with reluctance to pay him for his services. Fighting against people who are trying to deny these children these services.
The transition time between a student receiving medication and new behavior can be fascinating.
They take away the students' previous medicine to start from a new baseline. Too often, these kids are misdiagnosed by family doctors who only took a couple months of residency on mental health.
In some cases, the family dynamic has been messed up so much that these kids are not receiving positive attention at home. The program uses positivity and persistence to try to reverse these trends. He explained examples of a student's familial relationships improving through the program.
Josh spends all day working with these students. There are four adults that work with five children.
Staff try to be respectful with each other but it can be tough. Teacher and assistants all have unique ideas and expectations-they all want to contribute. Power balance can be tough but is rewarding in the long run when you create a fair and balanced working relationship.
Age ranges are widespread. There is a pre-school age (4yr old),elementary age (7yr, 8yr, 8yr old), and even a middle school age (10yr old).
It is difficult on the Special Education Professionals do develop lesson plans for these different age groups. The reinforcement schedule is also a challenge because certain age groups need things in a different manner and time than others.
Switched halfway to focusing on the positive things as opposed to the negative things that they should not do. On the push for positivity, "It changed the dynamic of the classroom" and it became "contagious."
He spoke about the differences in working with boys and girls; how there is a huge contrast between working with the two and he sees that in the classroom.
He didn't allow work avoidance to occur by requiring a student to stay after school and finish their work. Takes extra commitment but is worth it in the end.
Communication/Follow-up is key! Need to be consistent on both ends and build relationships with families. Develop rapport with students and family members.
Believes in taking care of himself (self-care) to recharge his batteries. Make sure you are in control of yourself so you can positively impact students.
Further Thinking:
----Carl Rodgers 40%
----PCIT- Parent Child Interaction Therapy
-focusses on catch the child doing good things instead of always getting on to them for negative things
-being proactive
----Token Economy
----Function Behavior Analysis
-all behavior is to do something or to avoid something
----Oppositional Defiant Disorder
-a student that doesn't like being told what to do
----Different response as males than that of women in education
----SIGHTS acronym
----Avoid passion fatigue?
Saturday, November 16, 2013
1. Understand--Compare and contrast Sternberg’s Triarchic Theory of intelligence with Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences.
Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of intelligence revolves around three different domains; that is, analytical, creative, and practical intelligence. People use these three domains to become more or less intelligent while they utilize their environment, prior experiences, and cognitive processes relating to a task. This theory involves much more dependence on itself than Gardner's Theory.
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences incorporates eight (and sometimes a ninth) different abilities which he calls multiple intelligences. These abilities are independent of each other and may not correlate with each other. They do not necessarily build or rely on each other and can function by themselves.
2. Evaluate—One the bottom of page 142, Ormrod gives
an example of questions for an intelligence test. Can you think of a way these questions may
be biased? What do such questions really measure?
Sternberg's Triarchic Theory of intelligence revolves around three different domains; that is, analytical, creative, and practical intelligence. People use these three domains to become more or less intelligent while they utilize their environment, prior experiences, and cognitive processes relating to a task. This theory involves much more dependence on itself than Gardner's Theory.
Gardner's Multiple Intelligences incorporates eight (and sometimes a ninth) different abilities which he calls multiple intelligences. These abilities are independent of each other and may not correlate with each other. They do not necessarily build or rely on each other and can function by themselves.
2. Evaluate—One the bottom of page 142, Ormrod gives
an example of questions for an intelligence test. Can you think of a way these questions may
be biased? What do such questions really measure?
The example on p. 142 is an intelligence test that has five questions. The first four questions are clearly verbal while the last question is visual. This can be biased when 80% of an exam are one particular way; in this case, a verbal majority can be biased towards non-English speaking students. These questions measure language skills and cultural norms. One of the questions asks about a common expression that people say; this can be unfair if the test-taker has never heard or been exposed to that expression. Many intelligence tests are biased in this manner. That is, the intelligence test measures previous knowledge as opposed to cognitive ability.
Thursday, October 31, 2013
Learner Generated Questions CH 8
Understand—How does transfer relate to problem solving and creativity?
Transfer, according to Ormrod, is "phenomenon in which something a person has learned at one time affects how the person learns or performs in a later situation." Problem solving involves using existing knowledge to fix or address a situation. This is transfer in action; an individual must know information to be able to assist others. The difficulty of the problem does not matter because transfer will be occurring regardless. If a problem is easy it is a result of a positive transfer of information. On the other hand, when a problem is challenging or confusing, it may be a result of a negative transfer that is confusing the individual because they recalled the wrong type of information. Existing information is crucial in transfer because it is often a help to the learning process but in rare cases it can hinder later learning. Creativity utilizes transfer because it involves past knowledge or learned abilities. An example would be in a high school history class where a student is required to give a presentation on a historical figure; the students previous knowledge of a figure will allow him more self-efficacy and, in turn, he can take more risks in his presentation. This is because transfer through creativity is brought about by divergent thinking, a process that has many results coming from a similar starting point.
Synthesizing/Creating—Write a story where students can easily use the covert strategy of identifying important information.
In a high school history class a teacher has a midterm coming up that is sure to evaluate many of the terms from the course. Instead of just telling the students what to study, the teacher provides an objective list before each lesson. In the objective list there are many boldface terms so they stand out to the students. This should encourage them to take more notes about these terms and pay more attention when reviewing that term or figure. Another great option would be to ask questions that relate to the more important terms in a lesson. These questions could be related to a specific topic but could encourage the students to form a visual image of what it going on with the term. Ormrod says that covert strategy is a "learning strategy that involves only mental activity...(e.g., forming a visual image of a concept).
Transfer, according to Ormrod, is "phenomenon in which something a person has learned at one time affects how the person learns or performs in a later situation." Problem solving involves using existing knowledge to fix or address a situation. This is transfer in action; an individual must know information to be able to assist others. The difficulty of the problem does not matter because transfer will be occurring regardless. If a problem is easy it is a result of a positive transfer of information. On the other hand, when a problem is challenging or confusing, it may be a result of a negative transfer that is confusing the individual because they recalled the wrong type of information. Existing information is crucial in transfer because it is often a help to the learning process but in rare cases it can hinder later learning. Creativity utilizes transfer because it involves past knowledge or learned abilities. An example would be in a high school history class where a student is required to give a presentation on a historical figure; the students previous knowledge of a figure will allow him more self-efficacy and, in turn, he can take more risks in his presentation. This is because transfer through creativity is brought about by divergent thinking, a process that has many results coming from a similar starting point.
Synthesizing/Creating—Write a story where students can easily use the covert strategy of identifying important information.
In a high school history class a teacher has a midterm coming up that is sure to evaluate many of the terms from the course. Instead of just telling the students what to study, the teacher provides an objective list before each lesson. In the objective list there are many boldface terms so they stand out to the students. This should encourage them to take more notes about these terms and pay more attention when reviewing that term or figure. Another great option would be to ask questions that relate to the more important terms in a lesson. These questions could be related to a specific topic but could encourage the students to form a visual image of what it going on with the term. Ormrod says that covert strategy is a "learning strategy that involves only mental activity...(e.g., forming a visual image of a concept).
Thursday, October 17, 2013
Service Learning-Hypothetically Serving
Service Learning is a great way for students to not only learn about something and themselves but to also give back to the community around them. One of my goals as an educator is to impact not only the people in my school but also in the community. I believe that if I encourage my students to help out in the community that it will help their own personal development as well with their education.
A hypothetical example I could implement into a high school history class would be asking my students to help serve food at a soup kitchen. I could offer this service project during a unit on the Great Depression so my students could draw parallels between the community service and the struggles of the people during the 1930's in America.
In Eggen and Kauchak's Windows on Educational Psychology they point out that in Knowledge Construction there is a "shift in emphasis from presenting information and toward providing the experiences and promoting the interaction that help students construct valid knowledge (198)."
My hopes would be that the students remember the content better through association. A different environment can really impact the way a student remembers things. My aim is that the students reactions are positive and long-lasting. I also want them to learn that giving back is crucial to their development as global citizens.
Some obstacles could be the day in which this could all happen; it makes the most sense for this activity to be on a Saturday. Saturday is a tough day for students to get out and do something with school because of work and lack of transportation. If it was during the week it could also be challenging because filed trips are difficult to organize due to budget constraints. Another obstacle could be if students react emotionally when they are working with homeless or less fortunate people.
Ormrad talks about service learning and the importance of enhancing students learning by being "sources of pleasure and success rater than sources of frustration and failure (232)." Giving students an opportunity to give back will increase their feeling of self-efficacy and impact them in a positive way.
A hypothetical example I could implement into a high school history class would be asking my students to help serve food at a soup kitchen. I could offer this service project during a unit on the Great Depression so my students could draw parallels between the community service and the struggles of the people during the 1930's in America.
In Eggen and Kauchak's Windows on Educational Psychology they point out that in Knowledge Construction there is a "shift in emphasis from presenting information and toward providing the experiences and promoting the interaction that help students construct valid knowledge (198)."
My hopes would be that the students remember the content better through association. A different environment can really impact the way a student remembers things. My aim is that the students reactions are positive and long-lasting. I also want them to learn that giving back is crucial to their development as global citizens.
Some obstacles could be the day in which this could all happen; it makes the most sense for this activity to be on a Saturday. Saturday is a tough day for students to get out and do something with school because of work and lack of transportation. If it was during the week it could also be challenging because filed trips are difficult to organize due to budget constraints. Another obstacle could be if students react emotionally when they are working with homeless or less fortunate people.
Ormrad talks about service learning and the importance of enhancing students learning by being "sources of pleasure and success rater than sources of frustration and failure (232)." Giving students an opportunity to give back will increase their feeling of self-efficacy and impact them in a positive way.
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