80-203 (2009) Week 1
Oprah
Added Attention
ABCs
Talk
Tests
Building Applications
Alternate for Test 3
Group Presentations
Brochures
Link
Me
MI
Telephone
Sternberg
Summer Vacation
Leisure
Professors
Reflection
Welcome
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Metaphor
Teacher as Talk-Show Host.
Teacher as Talk Show Host
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Ellen
Montel
Dr. Phil
Chris Matthews
Bill Mahr
Larry King
Michael Coren
Oprah
The medium is the message.
The medium is a message. What did you learn?
--Content?
The medium masks the message.--Methodology?
The medium bolsters the message.--Technology?
Some objectives…
At the end of this session you should know
Something about the course
 Something about the professor
 Something about some peers
 Something about encouraging talk
 Something about summer vacation
 Some “little-lessons” or “mini-lessons”
 Something about educational psychology
 Something about learning
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How I spent my summer vacation…
Share with those around
you what you wrote.
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Here’s an
Application
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ON
Value?
-meet people
-social supports
-schema activation
-involvement
-personal
-energizing
Some objectives…
At the end of this session you should know
Something about the course
 Something about the professor
 Something about some peers
 Something about encouraging talk
 Something about summer vacation
 Some “little-lessons” or “mini-lessons”
 Something about educational psychology
 Something about learning
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Application-Based C...
Collaborations
Collages
Communiqués
Constructions
Critiques
Conducting
Coaching
Application-Based....
Computing
Communication
Communing
Colleagues
Creativity
Credits
Coffee Breaks
EDUCATIONAL
PSYCHOLOGY
REFLECTION FOR ACTION
Canadian Edition
O’Donnell, D’Amico, Schmid, Reeve, Smith
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/edfac/morton/new_page_3.htm
http://web2.uwindsor.ca/courses/edfac/morton/203.htm
Assignments (Tests)
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Test 1 (Week 5) (10%)
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Test 2 (Week 12?) (10%)
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Multiple-choice
Open-book
Group-format
Multiple-choice
Open-book
Individual-format
Test 3 (Exam Week) (20%)*
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Multiple-choice
Open-book
Individual-format
* There is an Alternative
for Test 3
Assignments (In-Class Constructions)
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Weekly, Assigned, In-Class Topical Tasks (15%...+ 5%)
 Submissions
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Draft (End-of-class)
Polished (End-of-week)
Summative (End-of-course)
Collaborations
Teaching Others
Draft
 One or two pages of notes from discussions (signed by participants)
Polished
 A couple of pages of WP text (plus graphics, charts, images, etc.)
designed to teach your peers something important, relevant, or
interesting about the topic.
Summative
 A collection of your polished work put into the form of a Newsletter for
Teachers (or Student Teachers, New Teachers, Old Teachers,...)
Assignments --Group Presentations
(Applied )
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In-Class Format Examples:
Skit on Stage
Mime
Robbins’ Motivational
Sales Pitch
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Puppet Show
Write/perform a song
PowerPoint
Live or Video?
(80% opt for video)
ETC.
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Principles:2 to 6 people per group
concept, technique,
vocabulary, model, from a
selected chapter
5 to 10 minutes
PENALTY for exceeding
10 minutes (10%)
“less is more”
Video--Group Presentation Possibilities
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write, produce, and video a skit, puppet show, etc.
samples of video clips with commentary
interview children/teachers/parents...
Cartoons
or wherever your creativity leads...
If Video keep in mind:
audio quality / camera stability
transfer to VCR format / timelines
could be an .mpg file on a CD, or Flash
Drive , or DVD
media services (Lambton Towers, see Larry
Foley)
As these videos are designed to instruct your
peers, your students, your associate teachers, the
parents of students, the public, and so on, they
may be shown in other educational psychology
classes, at other times…
Note 1. Every year I get requests
from former students for a copy of
their presentation (particularly the
very good productions) for inservice sessions they are working
on in their present teaching
positions. I can’t always find them,
or make copies, so I suggest you
make sure everyone in your group
who wants a copy has a copy.
Note 2. In the past, the target
audience was limited to student
teachers—your peers. In the
interests of practicality and future
utility the student teacher may be
the secondary target, and you may
opt for primary target audiences
such as: practicing teachers,
parents, children, adolescents,
professionals, media, and so on.
Assignments (Brochures)
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Four Brochures (20%)
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Samples on-line and in-class
Choose your topic from the text
Use the text book
Credit the text book
Paraphrase not quotes.
Elaborate
Choose your target audience
 Teachers, parents, student
teachers, students, public, grade
5 students, siblings of LD
students, professors, etc. ...
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Consider
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Professional
appearance
Format
Language
level
Future use
Test 3 Alternate
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Prepare an additional set of four Brochures addressing four
different topics that you contend were not adequately addressed in
the Faculty of Education program, ...not just the educational
psychology course.
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NOTE. You need to be aware that (1) I would have access to material
addressed in other courses and could inquire whether a particular topic you
decide to pursue was indeed enhanced by more depth or greater breadth on
your part, and (2) it is plagiarism to use material for an assignment in one
course for an assignment in another course. Don't put yourself in jeopardy..
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The intent here is to highlight your professional standing as a
responsible, mature, independent, personal, life-long learner--a
learner capable of initiating and implementing your own
knowledge growth.
Topics would have a tie to educational psychology but go beyond
the textbook, the course, or the program. Your Brochures should
show evidence of transcending these existing sources.
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Building Applications Through...
In-Class Assignments,
Postings, The Newsletter
Out-of-Class Assignments
(Audio, Video, PowerPoint,
WordProcessor, Publisher, Etc.…)
Testing
Scenarios
Metaphors for Teaching
Technology-Based Instruction
Error Analysis Protocol
-Video
Committees
Character Education Protocol
-PowerPoint
Plans
Accommodating Differences
Protocol
-Audio
Protocols for testtaking
Multi-Cultural Protocol
Technology-driven Communiqués
Behaviour Management Protocol
-Brochures
Critical Thinking Protocol
-Newsletters
Creativity Protocol
-Websites
Motivation Protocol
Collaborations
Strategies for
Learning
Self-Regulation
Strategies
Introductions--Me?
 Dr. Larry Morton
 Office 3342A
 Phone Extension # 3835
 e-mail morton@uwindsor.ca
Are there things that
make talking unpleasant?
Avoider
Pontificator
Anxious
Reflective
Gregarious
Fearful
Gendered
Make talking pleasant:
-Small Groups
-Low Threat Topics
-Give Time to Reflect
-Ask Questions
-Personalize Topics
Others?
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Afternoon Nap
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Show and Tell
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Into the cloakroom…
How do you get people
to talk?
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Talk Encouraging Practices
Profiles In The PJ Division
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Re TALK (a little-lesson)
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Teachers talk too much...
Re TALK (little-lessons)
Save your voice
 Use Signals
 Hand Signals
 Light Signals
 Bells, whistles, claps, shhh,...
 Watch the associate
 The Horn
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Re TALK (a little-lesson)
(to facilitate class activities)
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Good talk.
Noise can facilitate.
Bring texts to class (talk &
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group work)
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Class and group
participation is evaluated
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Bad talk.
Noise can interfere.
Whispering is a distractor
when others are trying to
communicate.
Be courteous when the
professor, a guest, or a
classmate is addressing
the entire class!!!
Re TALK ( a little-lesson)
Suggestion:
Keep talk units or
instructional units down to about 10 to 15
minutes.
WHY?
Re TALK (a little-lesson)
Use of gimmicks…
Start Talk!
Stop Talk!
Talk (a little-lesson)
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Use Humour
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Best way to
communicate
with the prof…
What happens to learning over
vacation periods?
Regression?
Stasis?
Growth?
Survey says……
Generally there is:
80
70
60
Opinion
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10
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Regression
Stasis
Growth
What do educators and
politicians recommend?
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Mexico (2009) there is a move to extend the school
day by 37 minutes, but reduce the school week to four
days. It reduces their budget by about 5%. Good idea?
What do educators recommend?
Summer
school
September review
Extended school year
Summer reading program
Summer enrichment programs
What does the older research
indicate about summer vacation?
What does the research
indicate?
Beggs & Hieronymous 1968
Studied
2000 students
Grades 5 …6
Tested May and October
ITBS (11 subtests)
Bottom Line:
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arithmetic…maybe
GENERALLY NO LAGS
Soar & Soar, 1969
Studied
189 students
Grades 5 …6
tested: Oct May Oct
ITBS (voc, reading, math)
Soar & Soar, 1969
Test
Voc
Read
Conc
Prob
Oct
Base
Base
Base
Base
May
8.1m
6.4m
6.7m
6.8m
Oct
4.0m
3.5m
3.0m
4.9m
October score should be one-third of the May score…
Formal instruction...
may be detrimental to learning
Other Studies
Heynes
(1978) N=1500 Gr 6
Low SES … -.28yrs (loss over summer)
High SES… .29yrs (gain over summer)
Bottom Line:
SES
seems to be critical
Other Studies
Wintre
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(1988) (grades 1, 3, 5)
Gains for word knowledge
Gains for reading
Gains for math concepts
Loss for math computations (gr 3)
Reece, Myers, Nofsinger, & Brown, 2000
Used curriculum-based-measures (CBM) not
norm-referenced measures
 N=749 (Grades 1, 3 and 5) rural Kentucky
 Traditional (10wk) (180-200 instr. Days?)
 Alternative (8wk) (135 instr. Days?)
 May be an examination of more vacation days!
 The effect is for the primary grades only?
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Don’t try and note
these. The point is
that the effects are
convoluted
Math
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Gr1
Gr3
Gr5
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Trad
Alter
Spelling
2
1
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Gr1
Gr3
Gr5
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-3
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Trad
Alter
Writing
0.5
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Gr1
Gr3
Gr5
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Trad
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Reading
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Gr1
Gr3
Gr5
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2
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0
Trad
Alter
Implications?
Effects
are complex
Summer school (Not critical, but…)
Extended school year (Not critical, but…)
September review (Not critical but schema activation is
important…)
SES (Seems Important, but… see Dorothy Lee…)
Take a Break! (Important, but…our study of leisure…)
Even In class… but not in 203?
Check the “Summer Vacation” links
on the class WEB Site
Some leisure activities…
Sternberg’s
Triarchic Theory
Of Intelligence
-Analytic
-Creative
-Practical
Components
MI
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Your trajectory here at the Faculty of Education
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And Gardner’s theory of Multiple Intelligences
Little Vacations
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Take a break!
A coffee break!
Take the kids “outside”
A walk
A virtual break
A trip home
Get a good
book to read