...This is an Executive Summary of the article, “Teaching Smart People How to Learn” by Chris Argyris. A business’ success in the marketplace depends on highly trained staff. However many people don’t know how to learn. In fact the most difficult training strategies are those that are developed for personnel in senior leadership positions. Senior leaders are effective problem solvers when focusing on, identifying and correcting issues in the organizational environment. But when confronted with how their actions might have contributed to the organization’s problems they avoid learning; and in order for learning to continue personal reflection is required to influence change. A learning organization must understand the distinction between ‘‘single loop learning” and ‘‘double loop learning”. “Single loop learning” involves the identification and solving of a problem. Whereas “double loop learning” asks why is there a problem? Professionals utilize “single-loop learning” for projects such as organizational restructuring, training and development and process improvement. But seldom do they master the skills of “double loop learning”. All too often success has denied these professionals the opportunity to learn from their mistakes. As a result they avoid learning because they lack the reflective skills necessary to ask themselves why there is a problem and what role did I play in that problem. Avoidance Learning Studies of professional consultants exemplify the process of avoidance...
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...Teaching is one of those careers where you learn something new every day, and many cite this as one of the main things they hope to get out of their career. In today’s ever changing world it becomes even more essential for a teacher to keep reinventing herself. In an effort to transform myself from a nominal teacher to a smart creative teacher one of the first things I need to do is a SWOT analysis for myself and understand which areas need to be enhanced further. From there it is important to take a systematic approach and address the six major competencies to become a smart creative teacher. Deep subject knowledge. A teacher is most likely to be well versed in her subject but a smart creative teacher needs to go beyond being just an expert...
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...Principles of Learning and Teaching STUDENTS AS LEARNERS – 35% THEORISTS LEV VYGOTSKY http://facultyweb.cortland.edu/andersmd/VYG/ VYG.HTML JEROME BRUNER http://tip.psychology.org/bruner.ht ml JOHN DEWEY http://www.infed.org/thinkers/e t-dewey.htm Importance of CULTURE humans use of tools and symbols to learn – culture dictates what we learn and how • Higher and Lower mental functions – elementary (or lower) functions gradually transform to HMF through culture • Central ROLE OF LANGUAGE: Language is made possible because of our culture (tools and symbols). The learning of language (or signs) is brought about by social processes, and language or signs ultimately make thought possible. Three stages in the development of speech a. Social speech – speech to control the behavior of others b. Egocentric speech – three to seven year olds – talking to themselves to learn c. Inner speech – soundless speech – thinking in our head • ZONE OF PROXIMAL DEVELOPMENT: The discrepancy between a child's mental age [indicated by the static test] and the level he reaches in solving problems with assistance is the zone of his proximal development. _________________________________ ABRAHAM MASLOW http://www.ship.edu/~cgboeree/m aslow.html HEIRARCY OF NEEDS • Physiological needs • Safety needs • Belonging needs • Esteem needs • Self-actualization • Principles: learning is an active process in which learners construct new ideas or concepts based upon their current/past knowledge – DISCOVERY...
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...America: Dumbing Down Our Students Back in the day, school was a place to learn. It was a place to get smart. Now it has turned into a psychological headquarters. It is like America is saying, “Who cares, as long as our students feel good about themselves.” Schools have stopped teaching important facts. Some teachers do not feel their students need to know what was taught back in the day. According to Charles J. Sykes, “In a 1990 survey of college seniors, 42 percent couldn’t name the dates of the War Between the States within half a century” ( Sykes, 4). Why don’t our teachers care anymore about teaching about important events or even science? Many of them have said it is because they just are not useful facts. I would have to disagree. I believe that you should know the background of this country you live in. I think students need to be taught about our founding fathers. I fear for our future generations. The school systems are dumbing our students down and they are too worried about how the students are feeling than what they are learning. So the question we are all asking teachers along with the school system is, “Why are we allowing students to be dumbed down?” How are we going to elect a president in the future who never had a background in math, science, or most importantly, history? Our future generation does not know what we were taught when we were in school. Some public schools have even removed certain subjects because they are not necessary or the school cannot...
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...is, street smart people can be just as, if not maybe more intellectual than people who are book smart. Everyone is smart in their own different ways. Graff goes on and talks about whether he is “street smart,” or “book smart.” Graff thinks that he was street smart. The author states, “Nor do we consider one of the major reasons why schools and colleges overlook the intellectual potential of street smarts: the fact that we associate those street smarts with anti-intellectual concerns.” What I think he is trying to say is, most teaching industries over look some of the important things in life. Some things that schools do not teach, like how to do taxes, or fill out a mortgage....
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...device in improving education, communicative skill and creative thinking besides serving as nation’s improviser. Ministry of Education proposed the use technology as one of the main sources to improve and empower English speaking skill among primary school students. This proposition, of course were accompanied by agrees and disagreement from various parties. Almost 67% of the objections came from parents who are concern about the negative effect of technology if the policy of using technology in education is enforced. (Ministry of Education, 2009) This is because, the spreading issues of technology’s negative effect has seems to blend into our community. Nonetheless, everything comes with its pros and cons. In preview, we will discuss about how effective usage of technology can improve one’s educational standard. Television has indeed increase the percentage and improves the academic level of students especially in the age of primary school students. Based on a research by Dr. Lim Yeoh Soon (2010), a professor of Children Development, technology like television can improve one’s academic standard as the most effective visual aids, if use correctly and under strict observation. This is proven with one of the most successful experiment by Dr. Yeoh himself; when 55% of pre-school and primary school students who watched educational and English cartoon programs are brighter and asks more questions than the other 35%. Besides, 40% of them possessed a wider range of vocabulary. Researchers...
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...Stephanie Collado Professor Gronsky ENG 103 Book smart or Street smart From when we were little kids to grown adults it is put in our heads that education is the most important experience to have in our life. It lets you be able to achieve any dreams and goals that you want. On the other hand there are people who are successful without school education and succeeded in receiving their careers with talent and hard work. This is what people call street smarts, things that people learn from their own personal experiences or what they see markets more in the social world. People argue that if you don’t go to college and get a degree you won’t have success or wealth, and some people argue that not going to college gives you more freedom and is less time consuming. Having street smarts helps people understand each other better on a more personal level then being judged on how smart or dumb the person is based on a degree. College isn’t accessible to everyone; some people have to be really smart or born into a wealthy family to attend. Having a college education gives people a professional look and the confidence to get a good paying job that will help support their lifestyle. College also lets people express themselves, letting them become comfortable in being social and speaking in front of large groups of people. When going to college some people don’t realize that they are taking out a loans and debts that they’ll have to set an exact plan to...
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...Differentiated & Culturally Relevant Instruction EDU 675 Change Leadership for Differentiated Education Environment Dr. Patricia Raney August 13, 2012 Differentiated & Culturally Relevant Instruction American classrooms are full of diverse learners. Some educational practices of the past no longer meet the needs of the ever-changing classroom demographic. As classroom demographics change, so must the perspective of educators charged with educating young people. It is the responsibility of teacher leaders everywhere to find meaningful ways to reach their students. With the growing popularity of professional learning communities on school campuses, teachers can take advantage of professional development prospects enabling them to establish differentiated instructional strategies that give all students equal access and opportunities to learn. Teacher leaders have several roles. To begin with, as lifelong learners these leaders “foster a collaborative culture to support educator development and student learning” (Teachers as leaders, 2011). In other words, teacher leaders are dedicated to improving educational outcomes for students, expanding the professional communities that they work in and creating positive culture. Positive school culture is vital to both students and staff. Roby (2011) offers that “Teacher leaders not only have the ability to shape the culture of the workplace, but if they are operating from a moral mindset...
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...schools are college graduates with years training in teaching. However, many people are thinking that if everybody boil water and coach basketball, then they kind of feel the same way about teaching. The emergence of home schooling and charter schools is partly based on the perception of the teaching as a "non-profession." Even though we admit the need of professional preparation of the teacher, many people think that the profession of teaching is fundamentally different from those that receive the greatest public recognition. Teachers are not professionals in the conventional sense of the term. Though there was another effort to define teaching as a new professionalism, there are still other reasons that teaching is not a profession in a traditional sense. 2. Copy right and fair use are two of the same things but also different at the same time each other have their differences but are basically the same thing if it’s already invented its copyrighted and you cannot steal their idea if it has fair use you basically have fair use to use whatever it is that is under the fair use policy. Educators need to know these boundaries because they cannot use anything that is copyrighted without the permission of the company. If it’s under fair use the teacher has fair use to use the material how he or she pleases. 3. Perennialism, Essentialism, Progressivism, Reconstructionism, are the four main philosophies of teaching. Progressivism is the one that I like the most because...
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...Listening summary/response Summary Duckworth (2013) in her talk “The key to success? Grit (研磨)” says that grit is the key to success. She explained that she change the job to teaching seventh graders Math in New York City public school when she was 27 years old. She found that I.Q was not the only difference between her best students and worst students. In her opinion, the Math of seventh grade is hard, but she is convince if they work hard enough. Then, she concluded that ability to learn quickly and easily was not only one thing to influence the performance of school and life. So, she came back to school and started learning psychology. She and her team a researched on who is successful person in super challenging situations (for kids and adults). Finally, she found that the most important character trait (特性) to influence success was grit. Grit is sticking with your future, and working hard to make the future a reality. She made a survey about the grit influence of students in high school, and she found the students who have strong girt character can easily graduate. She was shocked that we know a little about grit, and we do not know how to build grit in kids, but according to the data, we know that grit was not related to the measure of talent. The best idea was building grit in kids in something called “growth mindset.” This is an idea developed at Stanford University by Carol Dweck. When they learned this method, they can preserve if they failed, because they believed...
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...Classroom Technology Plan Technology has become the focus of our education today and is the building blocks to help students achieve the goals not only in their personal lives but also their academic. Computers are a large facet of our future allowing students to learn through the advances of technology to help them succeed into adulthood. A specific plan of communication will ensure a smooth flow of information to both parents and students. In order for this plan to become successful it will take a constant effort. Every parent’s type of communication will differ; therefore we must have several different communication strategies on hand. Using technology in the classroom will allow students to be more in touch with learning only help improve their leaning potentials. Having a technology in the classroom is a benefit for everyone. Teachers will be able to work with students more and spend less time worrying about how they are going to compute students’ grades. This generation is a technology based generation, and will learn best through technology. Section One: Mission and Vision Statement Mission Statement: By providing students with technology both in and out of the classroom, they will become more familiar with how to properly use today's technologies and stay updated with the technologies of the future, ensuring a brighter tomorrow for each of them. Students will implement the use of technology into their learning environment in order to gain the skills needed for society...
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...NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY D’Amore-McKim School of Business ACCT1201: FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING & REPORTING Fall 2015 Professor: Cynthia Jackson Class days/time/location: MWTh/1:35-2:40 p.m./70 Dodge Hall MWTh/4:35-5:40 p.m./70 Dodge Hall Office hours/location: M/12:00-1:00 p.m./404 Hayden Hall W/3:00-4:00 p.m./404 Hayden Hall and by appointment Network/Voice-mail: 617-373-4643 E-mail: c.jackson@neu.edu Teaching Assistant: Nghia (Mash) Pham E-mail: pham.ng@husky.neu.edu Office location: 439 Dodge Hall/TBA Course Materials: • TEXT: Financial Accounting, 8th edition, Libby, Libby, & Short (Irwin McGraw-Hill) • Connect Plus • Learn Smart • Simple 4-function calculator Text and Connect Plus Options • Hardcover (including Connect Plus plus ebook access) o $303 at the Bookstore (resale value approximately $137 at the Booskstore) • Ebook and Connect Plus o $105 – online purchase o Valid for both semesters of this course • Connect Plus only o $76 – online purchase o No ebook or text material included o You can use this option if you have purchased a 2nd hand text • Looseleaf Text o $40 “upgrade” – you must have purchased one of the Connect Plus options o Online purchase through Connect Plus o This is a black & white, 3-hole punched...
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...Gerald Graff” this challenges the thought that if you are street smart the colleges will dismiss your ability to do well. Schools are missing the opportunity to combine what might interest a student into a more intellectualizing operation. Street smart students are missing the chance of combining both worlds; nonacademic interests and making them academic areas to study. There needs to be a balance between studying a nonacademic interest or only studying academic areas in college. According to the College Board, the average cost of college tuition is $31,231 for a private college and $9,139 for state residents at public colleges for one year. The cost of college is very expensive. Students need to take advantage of learning as much as they can to better themselves for their future. It is important to be a well-rounded student. At times, the topic that is being studied seems to have no relevance to our lives but years later we recall the subject and can speak accurately on the topic or use the skills we learned years past. This is the responsibility of the college to determine what a well-defined student needs to learn and...
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...Cell phones should be allowed to be used in school to support education. They should have cell phones in school because if you need to use the internet to look up a definition or to help them with work they can use their phone.(debate.org) Cell Phones are A Distraction We should not bring cell phones to school. My reasoning behind this is because cell phones are an additional distraction in the classroom. With many cell phones capable of not only calling others, but also texting, playing games, surfing the web, and taking pictures a cell phone contains many functions to get distracted with. We should bring cell phones to school. We should bring cell phones to school. Cell phones allow teachers to communicate with their students faster through email. Student should phone during class One thing is that, that for the kids who sometimes write slower than others can record their class session and use it at home not all kids are fast enough to write as fast as they might think or teachers may think and if it's sloppy when they get home and forget and look at their notes they might think it's not for homework and if kids play games in school so what if it sharpens their mind and makes them more aware of things instead of sleeping in class. They can listen to the teachers at home too. Phones should not be allowed in class. They will just lower your grade point average, and there are some students who would use them to cheat on test during class. Then they would fail there classes...
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...and process information in very different ways. The learning styles theory implies that how much individuals learn has more to do with whether the educational experience is geared toward their particular style of learning than whether or not they are “smart.” In fact, educators should not ask, “Is this student smart?” but rather “How is this student smart?” Discussion The concept of learning styles is rooted in the classification of psychological types. The learning styles theory is based on research demonstrating that, as the result of heredity, upbringing, and current environmental demands, different individuals have a tendency to both perceive and process information differently. The different ways of doing so are generally classified as: 1. Concrete and abstract perceivers–Concrete perceivers absorb information through direct experience, by doing, acting, sensing, and feeling. Abstract perceivers, however, take in information through analysis, observation, and thinking. 2. Active and reflective processors–Active processors make sense of an experience by immediately using the new information. Reflective processors make sense of an experience by reflecting on and thinking about it. Traditional schooling tends to favor abstract perceiving and reflective processing. Other kinds of learning aren’t rewarded and reflected in curriculum, instruction, and assessment nearly as much. How the Learning Styles Theory Impacts Education Curriculum–Educators must place emphasis...
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