EDU Class 1 Instructional Time yellow handout sheet

EDU Class #1

Instructional Time yellow handout sheet • Allocated time Amount of time teacher plans to devote to an activity • Engaged time or time on task student is actually engaged in the intended activity • Academic learning timepart of engaged time that the student was involved that facilitated learning

Learning Characteristics yellow handout • Attention attending to relevant task • Mediation verbal rehearsal, labeling association, imagery • Memory storage and retrieval • Motivation when performance doesn’t meet expectations, this is a problem

Stages of Learning yellow handout • Acquisition initial learning • Proficiency development of mastery • Maintenance retaining the skill over time • Generalization application of learned skill

Questions to Consider • purple sheet; let’s discuss • Are some students more difficult to teach than others? • Are some students incapable of learning?

Aspect of Learning Styles • Preferred modality – Auditory – Visual – Kinesthetic – Tactile

Aspect of Learning Styles • Multiple Intelligences – Intrapersonal – Interpersonal – Verbal/linguistic – Logical/mathematical – Visual/spatial – Body/kinesthetic – Musical – environmental

Aspect of Learning Styles • Hemispeheric dominance (look at yellow sheet) – Left Brain Right Brain – – – nonverbal visuospatial simultaneous gestalt synthetic Eastern thought Verbal Sequential Temporal Analytic Rational Western thought

Aspect of Learning Styles • Psycho-social and Ecological Factors • Physiological Factors • Other: age, gender, global/analytical

Learning Styles • Dunn and Dunn (1975) • Let’s focus on 3 of the learning styles • - how a child learns best – – Environmental Stimuli Emotional Stimuli Sociological Stimuli Physical Preferences

• What does knowing a student’s learning style tell you as you plan instruction?

• Talk for a few minutes, with a neighbor, about your learning style.