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Conquering the Concept: Keeping Concepts and Generalizations Fresh, Alive and Interesting

Conquering the Concept: Keeping Concepts and Generalizations Fresh, Alive and Interesting. Dr. Shelagh A. Gallagher University of North Carolina at Charlotte sagallag@email.uncc.edu. What’s a Concept? The ‘BIG IDEA’. Ecosystems Government Fractions Pronouns. Systems Change Patterns

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Conquering the Concept: Keeping Concepts and Generalizations Fresh, Alive and Interesting

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  1. Conquering the Concept: Keeping Concepts and Generalizations Fresh, Alive and Interesting Dr. Shelagh A. Gallagher University of North Carolina at Charlotte sagallag@email.uncc.edu

  2. What’s a Concept? The ‘BIG IDEA’ • Ecosystems • Government • Fractions • Pronouns • Systems • Change • Patterns • Freedom What’s the difference between the words in these two columns?

  3. ALL Children Benefit from Conceptual Learning Because • Concepts help students organize ideas • Concepts help students RETAIN CONTENT

  4. Conceptual Learning is Good for Gifted Learners because… • Abstract Thought • Transformation • Problem Solving • Complex Thought They think differently!

  5. Conceptual Learning is Good for Gifted Learners because… • It’s VALUE ADDED

  6. Conceptual Learning is Good for Gifted Learners because… • It’s a part of EXPERTISE

  7. Change Causes Change Generalization Elements of Systems Interact Saying something about the concept Institutions are Structures that Support Society

  8. Help make broad connections

  9. Helps create deep understanding

  10. GENERALIZATIONS CONCEPTS FACTS Increasing Generality Specificity The Structure of Knowledge From Armstrong, 1969

  11. Three Inter-related Pieces

  12. Challenging Issues in Working with Concepts and Generalizations • Lack of teacher preparation • Facile application • Using understanding instead of expert-like use as the goal

  13. Experts don’t use the World to Understand Concepts and Generalizations… …They use Concepts and Generalizations to Understand the World Use Concepts and Generalizations asTools to Cultivate Deeper Insight

  14. Build the Fascination and Use of Concepts and Generalizations CHANGE causes CHANGE

  15. Change causes… Change causes… Change!

  16. Teacher Preparation • Self-Study • Professional Development Day • Develop Disciplinary or Interdisciplinary Concept Papers

  17. Keeping Concepts and Generalizations Fresh, Alive and Interesting • Get to know them… • Broaden your Options • Use Quotations

  18. Getting to Know Them, Part 1 • American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS): Project 2061: Science for All Americans http://www.aaas.org • National Council for Social Studies: (NCSS) http://www.ncss.org • National Council for Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) http://www.nctm.org

  19. Getting to Know them, Part II What do the words mean? …the FREE DICTIONARY 4 PAGES of synonyms For CHANGE

  20. A Brief List of Changes… • Sublimate • Mutate • Fluctuate • Decrease • Increase • Transition • Expire • Surprise • Move • Convert • Amplify • Optimize • Refresh • Regenerate • Adapt • Gel • Modulate • Accommodate • Amplify • Specialize • Shift • Substitute • Redeem • Replace

  21. Transformation Destruction CHANGE causes Repression CHANGE Birth

  22. Broaden your Generalization Options

  23. Broaden your Generalization Options

  24. Use Quotations • Not change for change sake, but change to preserve America's ideals: life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness. Bill Clinton • Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. • -- James Baldwin • Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. • -- Paul Boese • Well, I said; but if we suppose a change in anything, that change must be effected either by the thing itself, or by some other thing? The Republic by PlatoView in context

  25. Use Quotations • Change is not merely necessary to life, it is life. • -- Alvin Toffler • Change before you have to. • -- Jack Welch • A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) • All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Gail Sheehy (1937 - ____)

  26. Use Quotations • We must become the change we want to see. • -- Gandhi • There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. • -- Nelson Mandela, A Long Walk to Freedom

  27. Use Quotations • http://creativequotations.com/ • http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml • http://www.quotationspage.com/ • http://www.quoteland.com/

  28. Use Concepts and Generalizations as Tools for Analysis

  29. Use Icons and Graphic Organizers An Individual is a particular being or thing as distinguished from a collection. Groups are a sets of people who see themselves as belonging to a common entity; share a set of goals. An Institution is an organization that is a hierarchy and has special goals; status lies within the hierarchy and structure defines position; each status has a role that is goal directed.

  30. Risk Map

  31. The more you know, the better you’ll do!

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