ED 300: Human Growth and Learning

1. ED 300: Human Growth and Learning Welcome Opening Prayer

2. Review: How students learn: • Cognitive Growth: • disequilibrium, assimilation, schemes, accommodation • Personal and Social growth: • Students need teachers and classroom where they can discuss and learn from each other • Differences • Cultural, Gender, Individual

3. Review: How students learn: • Model of Human Memory • Sensory, Short-Term Memory, Long-Term Memory • Knowledge Construction • Concepts, Schema and Scripts, Theories, Worldviews

4. Human Memory Model

5. Promoting Knowledge Construction • Modeling and experimentation • Ex: LC#6 Explicit Teaching • Emphasizing conceptual understanding • Example: S&I-Teach doctrine and principles • Encourage classroom dialogue • Example: LC#1 Expressive language • Authentic activities • Ex. SIOP: Lesson Prep, Strategies-Meaningful Activities • Scaffolding • Ex. SIOP: Strategies, Practice & Application

6. Assignment • Write a lesson plan you will use before the end of the school year. (20 points) • Label the concept or schema that will be the focus of the lesson. (Topic or title of the lesson.) • Include and label activities which will promote effective knowledge construction. • Modeling • Emphasizing Conceptual Understanding • Encouraging Classroom dialogue • Authentic activities • Scaffolding

7. Complex Cognitive Processes Content/ Objectives • I will identify the four strategies that promote complex cognitive processing. Language Objectives: • I will use at least one of the four strategies in the lesson plan I am currently writing.

8. Ch. 8 Complex Cognitive Processes Vocabulary • Complex Difficult, complicated, many, big • Cognitive Knowing, thinking, remembering • Process Procedure, way of doing something Complex Cognitive Processes How can we think, know, or remember something that is difficult?

9. Complex Cognitive Processes • Metacognition and Learning Strategies Metacognition Thinking about our thinking: Pondering - D&C 138:11 “As I pondered over these things which are written, the eyes of my understanding were opened, and the Spirit of the Lord rested upon me,” Learning Strategy Plan people use to help them learn

10. Complex Cognitive Processes • Metacognition and Learning Strategies • Take notes • Graphic organizer • Create Summaries • Model, graphic organizers, group work • Identify important information • Merge your thinking with new learning (ED 301) • Regularly monitoring learning • Read, write, talk strategy (ED 301)

11. Complex Cognitive Processes • Teach problem solving strategies • Encourage students to make problems concrete by drawing a picture or a diagram • Work in groups to identify several ways to solve a single problem • Ask students to explain what or why they are doing something Ex. Ioram’s science class on compounds

12. Complex Cognitive Processes • Foster Creativity • Ask thought provoking questions • Why? How? • Give students the freedom and security they need to take risks • Provide the time that creativity requires

13. Complex Cognitive Processes • Foster Critical Thinking • Model critical thinking aloud • Teach less information but in greater depth • Debate issues

14. Assignment Choose one of the four strategies for promoting complex cognitive processes and include it in the lesson plan. (10 points) • Metacognition and Learning strategies • Problem solving strategies • Fostering Creativity • Fostering critical thinking Label the strategy in your lesson plan.

15. Complex Cognitive Processes Content/ Objectives • I will identify the four strategies that promote complex cognitive processing. Language Objectives: • I will use at least one of the four strategies in the lesson plan I am currently writing.