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Honoring Cognitive Diversity . Philippe Ernewein www.rememberit.org October 29, 2012. Reflection (note card #1). Who were the charismatic adults in your life when you were a child or adolescent?
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Honoring Cognitive Diversity Philippe Ernewein www.rememberit.org October 29, 2012
Reflection (note card #1) Who were the charismatic adults in your life when you were a child or adolescent? What are two or three examples of what these charismatic adults said or did that caused you to consider them to be charismatic adults? When you were a child or adolescent, were there people who interacted with you in ways that were contrary to the qualities of a charismatic adult?
Teacher Actions: Short Term Memory • How is picturing, paraphrasing going to help us remember this? • “Paraphraser of the day” • Finding strongest pathways for students: • Visual, verbal or sequential • What happens when recoding is difficult?
Questions for Short-Term Memory How effective is the student in recoding information? Which strategies does the student use? (whispering, forming associations, visualizing) Can the student handle various kinds of information? Does the student get confused when information gets presented at a rapid rate?
Teacher Actions: AWM Opportunities to interact with text, problem, activity Underline/highlight (through “think aloud”) Questions for remembering & understanding JOT PAD! Write down/have visuals for steps
Long-Term Memory Filing for later use is a critical part of the consolidation role of LTM
Teacher Action: LTM How are we going to present information while also modeling/showing ways for students to organize and access information in the future? 4R Method: record, rearrange, reduce, rehearse Mix & Match: questions, note cards, summarize paragraph, key words/vocabulary, PEG, image, memory slogan
DO NOW: journal • When did you first hear the term learning disabilities or learning differences? • What did you think it meant?
Honoring Cognitive Diversity: rewriting what we are told Philippe Ernewein www.rememberit.org October 29, 2012
Variation of terms • Learning disabilities refers to a neurobiological disorder in one or more of the basic processes involved in understanding spoken or written language • Learning differences is based on the concept that all individuals have variations in learning abilities • Learning difficulties; promoted by the Schwab Foundation • Learning disorders is used by the APA’sDiagnostic & Statistical Manual
Stations Directions: Read definitions Rewrite Select reporter Select scribe Stations: Asperger’s Disorder ADHD (inattentive) ADHD (hyper-impulsive) NVLD/NLD
Share What did you find at your station? How did the introduction inform your thinking? Share a highlight.