Teaching to Meet Childrens Needs

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Teaching to Meet Childrens Needs

• Using 4MAT Unit Plans

By Carrieanne Lee EDEF Cohort IV
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Making Connection

• Why does it seem that students do not remember
  what was taught?

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Attending - What happens?

• Traditional Education did not address difference
  in learning styles
• Current Need for Change in Education to Develop
  Critical Thinking and Problem Solving Skills to
  compete in a Global Economy
• (Lewis Steinberger, 1999)

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Attending - What happens?

• Rational Students May Fail to
• Make Connections
• Find Meaning
• Internalize Information
• Remember What they Learned

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Attending - What happens?

• Rational Teachers May Fail to
• Teach to Different Learning Styles
• Meet Students Individual Needs
• Provide Students with Meaningful experiences

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Imagine Create a Visual
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Information by the Experts

• Brain Process
• Research
• 4MAT

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Information by the ExpertsBrain Processing

• Multiple Intelligence (Howard Gardner) (Gibbs.
  2000. p.64)
• Right/Left Brain Dominance (McCarthy. 2000)
• Learning Styles

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Information by the ExpertsResearch

• System to Teach Moral education - Philosopher
  Johann F. Herbart (Sharpes, 2002)
• Dimensions of Learning - Robert J. Marzano
  (Marzano,1992)
• 4MAT - Bernice McCarthy (MaCarthy, 2000)

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Information by the Experts4 MAT
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4MAT Process
Renewing
Connect
Perform
Meaning
Attend
Refine
Imagining
Extend
Inform
Practice
Conceptualizing
Operationalizing
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4MAT and Teaching Styles
Connect
Perform
Experiential
Constructivist
Attend
Refine
Imagining
Extend
Inform
Practice
Traditional
Behavioral
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Practice - Example of a Unit
Do Activity and Reflect on Results
Create an Experience
Share Experiences
Reflect if Activity will work
Develop Own Activities
Create an visual
Practice Skills
Information from experts
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Practice - Example of a Science Motion
UnitMeaning

• Connect
• (Create an Experience)
• Children play with balls

• Attend
• (Share Experience)
• Children talk to each other about experience

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Practice - Example of a Science Motion
UnitConceptualizing

• Imagining
• (Create a visual)
• Children draw pictures of their experiences

• Inform
• (Information from Experts)
• Text review
• Videos
• Teacher Lecture

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Practice - Example of a Science Motion
UnitOperationalizing

• Practice
• (Practice Skills)
• Teacher Controlled Lab about Motion

• Extend
• (Develop Own Activity)
• Child wonders why a basketball bounces.

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Practice - Example of a Science Motion
UnitRenewing

• Refine
• (Reflect if the Activity will work)
• Child looks at the steps they will take to answer
  question.

• Perform
• (Do Activity and Reflect on Process)
• Child does activity
• and reflects on process and results

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Extend - Creating My Own Project

• Action Research
• To develop various 4MAT units with different
  subjects
• To see if the 4MAT units address the need to
  teach toward different learning style

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Refine - How am I Going to Complete My Project?

• Method Student will
• Reflect on how they learn
• Discuss about differences learning styles
• Practice lessons to understand process
• Go through 4MAT units and Collect Data
• -Students reflections and samples
• -Teachers observations and reflections
• Reflect about the process

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Perform

• Time Line
• Summer 2004 - Develop Proposal/Research
• SY 2004-2005
• 1st Qtr- Plan Units / Prelessons
• 2nd Qtr/3rd Qtr - Implementation and Data
  Collection
• 4th Qtr - Reflections (Finish Plan B Paper)

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Bibilography

• Gibbs, Jeanne. (2001.) Tribes A New Way of
  Learning and Being Together. Windsor
  CenterSource Systems, LLC.
• Lewis, Anne. Elizabeth Steinberger. (1991.)
  Learning Styles
• Putting Research and Common Sense into
  Practice. Arlington American Association of
  School Administrators.
• Marzano, Robert J. (1992). A Different Kind of
  Classroom Teaching with Dimensions of
  Learning. Alexandrira Association for
  Supervision and Curriculum Development.
• McCarthy, Bernice. (2000.) About Teaching
  4MAT in the Classroom. Wauconda About
  Learning, Incorporated.
• Sharpes, Donald K. (2002). Advanced Educational
  Foundations for Teachers The History,
  Philosophy, and Culture of Schooling. New York
  RoutledgeFalmer.

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