Supporting Different Types of Learners - E121

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This week, we are tackling the topic of our different types of learners and how we can support our learners who are a little bit more slow in the classroom. We'll go over the difference between cognitive ability and cognitive styles, as well as intelligence and how all of our students can build their intelligence in our classes.
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• Why Don't Students Like School by Daniel Willingham
• How To Get Students Thinking - E110
• Strategies for Enhancing Memory & Critical Thinking - E113
• Learning That Transfers - E117
• Chapter 7 key ideas:
  • Guiding principle: Children are more alike than different in terms of how they think and learn
  • Cognitive Ability: Capacity for or success in certain types of thought
    Cognitive Styles: Biases or tendencies to think in a particular way
  • Abilities differ but no style is better than the other
  • When learning has meaning, learning styles don't matter
  • Theory of multiple intelligences - Howard Gardner (8 intelligences)
  • Watch your vocabulary when describing these intelligences (not abilities or talents!)
  • Classroom implications: know your students, growth mindset, learning styles for content and not student, language used around multiple intelligences
• Chapter 8 key ideas:
  • Guiding principle: Children do differ in intelligence, but intelligence can be changed through sustained hard work
  • Nature vs Nurture
  • Intelligence is malleable; it can be improved
  • Build knowledge, convince students that intelligence can be improved
  • Carol Dweck - fixed vs growth mindset
  • Great connections to mastery-based learning and UnGrading
  • Feedback for improvement
  • Slow learners - can be changed! They are not dumb!
  • Classroom implications: talk about intelligence as growth mindset, hard work pays off, failure is a natural part of the learning process (mastery learning), study skills, catching up is a long-term goal

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