Learning, Motivation, and Basic Management Skills

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Chapter 2

• Learning, Motivation, and Basic Management Skills
• Presented by Kelly, Whitney, Cheri, and Catherine

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Chapter Overview

• Learning Theories
• Other Ways to View Learning
• Motivation
• Basic Management Skills

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Learning Theories

• Behaviorism
• Study of Observable Behavior
• Behavior Modification
• Programmed Instruction

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Learning Theories

• Social Cognitive Theory
• Defines learning as change of mental associations
  
• Focus on cognitive processes
• Banduras four processes
• Attentional
• Rentention
• Motor reproduction
• Motivational
• Expansion into Cognitive Development

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Learning Theories

• Information-Processing Theory
• Examines how humans attain, remember and organize
  information
• Foundational terms
• Storage, Encoding, Retrieval, Control processes
• Memory components
• Sensory, Short-term, Long-term
• Schemas

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Learning Theories

• Constructivism
• Comes from both social cognitive theory and
  information learning theory
• Fitting together new information with whats
  already known
• Vygotskys Work
• Three types of Constructivism
• Endogenous, exogenous, and dialectical

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Other Ways to View Learning

• Multiple Intelligences
• Gardners MI
• Linguistic
• Musical
• Logical-Mathematical
• Spatial
• Bodily-Kinesthetic
• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal

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Other Ways to View Learning

• Learning Styles
• Preferred ways to use ones abilities
• Teachers adjust methods to accommodate students
  learning styles
• Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
• Kiersey Temperament Sorter

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Motivation

• Teachers should aspire to
• instill internal motivation in students
• create an environment that motivates
• develop confidence in students
• Achievement goals
• Intrinsic extrinsic

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Motivation

• Intrinsic Motivation
• Active involvement
• Variety of settings
• Sense of control of ones life
• Match student beliefs to classroom culture

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Motivation

• Research Conclusions
• Debatable points
• Mathematics is computation.
• Mathematics requires proof.
• Mathematics is useful.
• Mathematics topics are integrated.
• Mathematics consists of clearly defined
  problems.
• Guided discovery vs. direct instruction

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Basic Management Skills

• Room Arrangement
• Overhead Projector
• Desks
• Avoiding Disruptions
• Teachers Items
• Classroom Supplies
• Energy Savers
• Décor
• Room Sharing

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Basic Management Skills

• Teacher Expectations of Students
• Behavior
• Supplies
• Homework
• Assignment format
• Recordkeeping
• Teacher assistant/computer
• Daily Organization

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• Adapted from Teaching Mathematics for the 21st
  Century by Huetinck and Munshin