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Helping Students Reach Their Potential

Helping Students Reach Their Potential. Based on Talk by Constance Staley (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs). Universities are repositories of knowledge… First-year students bring in a bit… Seniors don’t take much away… So the knowledge accumulates. The Quarter-Life Crisis.

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Helping Students Reach Their Potential

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  1. Helping Students Reach Their Potential • Based on Talk by Constance Staley (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs)

  2. Universities are repositories of knowledge…First-year students bring in a bit…Seniors don’t take much away…So the knowledge accumulates.

  3. The Quarter-Life Crisis Our kids have absorbed the cultural values of: • More Easy Fast Fun The Three Stages of Life • Stage 1: The dream--the lure • Stage 2: The works, sweat and toil • Stage 3: The achievement, fulfillment and satisfaction Too Many people want to skip Stage 2

  4. Why Don’t Students Achieve Their Potential? • 1. They think they already have • 70% See themselves as above average • 48% earned “A’s” in high school • 2. They don’t know what their potential is • The ones that did worst thought they did ok, while the ones that did best thought they did a bit worse “Self knowledge is more important than self-confidence” -- Simon Cowell

  5. Why Don’t Students Achieve Their Potential? • 3. They don’t know how • Entity Theorists • knowledge is fixed, performance is the goal. • IQ = 35% effort, 65% ability • Need to prove I already have it • Incremental Theorists • Intelligence is cultivated through learning,learning is the goal • IQ = 65% effort, 35% ability • Need to increase my ability

  6. Why Don’t Students Achieve Their Potential? • 4. They procrastinate, can’t prioritize, or suffer from perfectionism. • 5. They’ve figured out the system • “Teacher’s don’t want me to form my own opinions--they want me to parrot back their opinions” • Study for the test, not to learn

  7. Why Don’t Students Achieve Their Potential? • 6. They’re overwhelmed • 7. They don’t get it The way to learn is: • You have a challenge • What do they know about the subject? • Insight (new knowledge added here) • Action is taken

  8. Three Stages of Faculty Life • 1. It’s about me (my tenure, my research, etc.) • 2. It’s about we (working collegially) • 3. It’s about them (learning and the students)

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