Educational Breakthrough

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Educational Breakthrough

• Using Human Needs Psychology to Enhance Learning
  Retention
• Dr. Rollo Fisher
• Monroe Community College

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What is Human Needs Psychology?

• Developed by Dr. Cloe Madanes
• 6 Human Needs
• 4 Basic Human Needs
• 2 Fulfillment Human Needs

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Human Needs Festivity

• Take the Human Needs Festivity
• Score Yourself
• Place your six needs in priority order

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Human Need 1 Certainty

• Feel safe
• Avoid pain
• Feel comfortable in our environment and
  relationships
• Degree varies from person to person
• Code words stability, safety, comfort, protection

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Human Need 2 Uncertainty/Variety

• Exercise (body and mind)
• Surprise
• Suspense
• Code words fear, change, chaos, entertainment

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Human Need 3 Significance

• Feel important
• Needed/wanted
• Superiority
• Code words pride, importance, achievement,
  rejection

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Human Need 4 Love/Connection

• Need connection/strive for love
• Feel loved by others
• Community
• Code words unity, passion, tenderness, desire

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Human Need 5 Growth

• When stop growing, then dying
• Grow physically from child to adult
• Grow emotionally from experiences
• Grow intellectually from response to outside world

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Human Need 6 Contribution

• Give beyond own needs
• Give to others or a cause
• Time, Talent, Treasure
• Necessary for fulfillment and happiness

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Needs met or -

• Certainty-make a living or steal from others
• Variety-read a book or high risk behavior
• Significance-be the best or be the worst
• Love/Connection-be kind or dominant
• Growth-be better person or despicable
• Contribution-give or destroy

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Pinpoint Users

• Tweet something you remember about one or more of
  the 6 human needs ( be sure to include INN12 and
  _at_rollofisher)

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Why use Human Needs Psychology?

• People consciously unaware of their needs
• Each student learning material for different
  reasons
• Teach same concept for different Human needs
• Students transfer own needs to material

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Application to the Classroom

• Assignment Place your 6 human needs in priority
  order two ways. First, create your ideal order.
  Second, create the order you are currently living.

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Voice Class I

• The Water is Wide, a British Folk Song
• Choose one of the two lists, and transfer it to
  the text of the song.

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The Water is Wide

• Verse 1Oh, the water is wide, I cannot cross
  over And neither have I wings to fly, but give me
  a boat that will carry two, and both shall row,
  my love and I.

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The Water is Wide (continued)

• Verse 2 I leaned my back up against an oak. I
  thought it was a trusty tree, but first it bended
  and then it broke, as did my false, false lord to
  me.

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The Water is Wide (continued)

• Verse 3 Oh love is sweet and love is fair, fair
  as the dew when first it is new. But love grows
  old and waxeth cold, and fades away like morning
  dew.

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Student Answers 1Ideal-Actual Needs

• Contribution
• Variety
• Connection/Love
• Significance
• Growth
• Certainty

• Contribution
• Connection/Love
• Variety
• Significance
• Growth
• Certainty

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Student Answers 1Transfer

• The person in the song believes that he is
  making a contribution to his significant other in
  his life to make a connection for her love.
  Because she has not reciprocated, he is forlorn
  and losing his self confidence in their
  relationship. Certainly, he is not experiencing
  personal growth and is causing uncertainty within
  himself (possibly about his ability to love
  deeply). His self-esteem has been bruised, as a
  result.

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Student Answers 2Ideal-Actual Needs

• Connection/Love
• Growth
• Significance
• Contribution
• Variety
• Certainty

• Growth
• Significance
• Contribution
• Certainty
• Connection/Love
• Variety

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Student Answers 2Transfer

• In my current state I feel that my personal
  growth and significance is more important to me
  than anything, and so the message of the text to
  me, seems almost trivial. I wish I could place
  more stake in relationships but I cant-they are
  the one thing that I need the most variety in.
  The idea of love growing old is what rings true
  to me. I feel self centered and unromantic,
  especially because I wish I was a more loving,
  consistently romantic person.

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Student Answers 3Ideal-Actual Needs

• Growth
• Certainty
• Significance
• Contribution
• Connection/Love
• Variety

• Variety
• Connection/Love
• Contribution
• Significance
• Growth
• Certainty

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Student Answers 3Transfer

• In the song Misery by Maroon 5, the song is
  definitely surrounded by love. However, he is
  giving and receiving love by negativity. He is
  destroying himself to fulfill his love. So by
  doing this he is negatively affecting his
  significance and growth. This song relates to how
  I am now because I went through this downward
  spiral with my ex. I became somebody I was not to
  keep her happy and fulfilled, but in turn it
  destroyed who I was.

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Student Answers 4Ideal-Actual Needs

• Growth
• Connection/Love
• Certainty
• Contribution
• Significance
• Variety

• Contribution
• Variety
• Certainty
• Connection/Love
• Growth
• Significance

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Student Answers 4Transfer

• The text meaning in the water is wide to me, I
  feel there is a lot of contribution in that the
  man is willing to contribute to anything so that
  he can see his love. Then there is some variety,
  because any minute everything is going good and
  then the next it goes down the drain.

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Student Answers 5Ideal-Actual Needs

• Growth
• Certainty
• Connection/Love
• Variety
• Contribution
• Significance

• Connection/Love
• Growth
• Certainty
• Significance
• Contribution
• Variety

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Student Answers 5Transfer

• The Water is Wide
• 1. Connection/Love-in the past I could relate to
  the trusty tree bending and breaking when I was
  suspicious and could no longer trust my boyfriend
  of that time.
• 2. Growth-wings to fly makes me think of my
  growth as a dancer

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• 3. Certainty-This song is not certain about love,
  like I was with my past relationship
• 4. Significance-It says how love isnt
  significant anymore and I disagree. Better things
  come along and love can rejuvenate
• 5. Contribution-both shall row makes me think
  of two people working together for a greater
  purpose
• Variety-there is a lot of variety in the opinion
  of love in the song

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Human Needs priority affects learning

• A change in one need changes how the person views
  his or her experience
• The priority order may be subconscious
• The more needs that are met by experience, the
  stronger the attachment

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Application to any classroom

• Teach from the perspective of different needs as
  the priority need
• Recognize that each student may be projecting
  their human needs onto the lesson in positive and
  negative ways
• Create awareness of the existence of these needs
  to enhance transfer of concepts

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Life is a lesson

• Take your priority list of human needs, and apply
  them to this presentation. If your needs were in
  a different order, how would that change your
  individual response to these concepts?

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Personal account

• My personal Human needs priority list
• Growth, contribution, Connection/Love, Certainty,
  Significance, Variety

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Questions to ponder

• Which of your needs are being met in your day to
  day activities at your college?
• Which of your needs do you wish to be met in your
  day to day activities?
• What will it take to change from your actual list
  to your ideal list?

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Philosophy of Education

• Who should be taught?
• Where should the students be taught?
• Why teach people?
• What should people be taught?

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An experiment

• Pair up with someone else in the room and share
  how Human Needs Psychology could affect your
  educational philosophy

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Final thoughts

• People do not learn in isolation, but rather they
  bring their outside lives into the classroom
• The greater the connection between a persons
  human needs and education will increase retention
  and application of learning

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Final thoughts (continued)

• If students do not connect their education with
  their human needs, the educational experience may
  not transfer to their professional career
• If professors connect teaching with their own
  human needs, they may become more effective
  educators

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Thank youAny questions?