Good Morning Students!
Please get out:
1. Your notes.
2. Something to write with.
Essential Question: How can we improve the educational experience of all students
at Los Altos High School?
Today:
1. Educational
Psych
2. Student
performance
3. Multiple
Intelligence.
4. Motivation
Views on Intelligence
“Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it
will live its whole life believing that it is stupid.” ― Albert Einstein
What factors influence student
success?
Why School is Structured the Way it is
Structured.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDZFcDGpL4U
What is your reaction to the video. What do you like about how school is currently
structured and what do you not like. What are some of the logistical problems we
might face trying to change the way schools are run?
Happy Wednesday Psychologists!
Please get out:
1. Multiple Intelligence Test
2. Notes/Note-taking stuffs
Today:
1. Multiple Intelligences
2. Looking at Intelligence
3. Learning styles vs
intelligence vs talents
4. Problems vs potentials
5. Motivation and Delayed
Gratification
Multiple Intelligences Test
Please answer all the questions on the multiple
intelligences test and fill out the circle on fourth
page. I will post these so we can see what types
of people we have in our classroom.
Please don’t take this TOO seriously. These types
of tests (as we will learn later) are disputed by
my psychologists as being culturally biased.
Multiple Intelligences
• Howard Gardner
• Progressive Aspect – Different Types of
Intelligence Equally Valued. – now includes
natural
• Criticism- Doesn’t expand definition of
intelligence but changes it to ability or
aptitude.
Educational Psychology
Essential Question:
How can we improve the educational experiences of
all students at Los Altos High School?
To answer this question we will look at:
• Why school is how it is now.
• Learning styles
• Motivation, Delayed Gratification and Goal setting.
– Attention (ADD/ADHD and Procrastination)
• Stereotype Threat
Intelligence
•
Original view of intelligence –
– Charles Spearman (1863-1945) “general intelligence” aptitude tests.
•
Primary Mental Abilities - Louis L. Thurstone (1887-1955)
– Verbal comprehension
– Reasoning
– Perceptual speed
– Numerical ability
– Word fluency
– Associative memory
– Spatial visualization
•
Howard Gardner’s – Multiple Intelligences (8 types)
•
Robert Sternberg - Triarchic Theory of Intelligence:
– “Mental activity directed toward purposive adaptation to, selection and shaping of, real-world
environments relevant to one’s life.“
– Agreed with Gardner that intelligence is much broader than a single, general ability
– suggested some of Gardner's intelligences are better viewed as individual talents.
– Analytical intelligence: This component refers to problem-solving abilities.
Creative intelligence: This aspect of intelligence involves the ability to deal with new situations
using past experiences and current skills.
Practical intelligence: This element refers to the ability to adapt to a changing
Other types of intelligence/learning
styles
4mat
Type 1 – personal connection
Type 2 – lecture – note taking
Type 3 – hands on experiment
Type 4 – creative – innovate
Learning Styles
Auditory
Visual
Kinesthetic
Verbal
Talent vs. Intelligence
• Ongoing debate.
• Ultimately a social construct
• Importance of cultural relevance – if your
talent is important we call it intelligence.
• Adaptability
Genius
• New book - British biographer Andrew Robinson
examines key moments in the lives of such giants
as Marie Curie, Charles Darwin, Albert Einstein
and Leonardo da Vinci.
– The conclusion that he draws from their experience is
that creative genius is "the work of human grit, not
the product of superhuman grace."
• Malcolm Gladwell- 10,000 hr rule.
• Anders Ericsson - "experts are always made, not
born."
Happy Friday Psychologists!
TGIF!!!
Today:
1. Drive
2. Motivation
3. Procrastination
Motivation
So if genius is all about
hard work – how do we
motivate ourselves and
others to do well?
Brainstorm1. What motivates
you?
2. What would you do
to motivate another
person?
I’ll make a title for this later….
Procrastination
• Everyone procrastinates sometimes, but 20 percent
of people chronically avoid difficult tasks and
deliberately look for distractions—which,
unfortunately, are increasingly available.
Procrastinators may say they perform better under
pressure, this is VERY rarely true…
Why do we Procrastinate
• There are different theories….
1. Animals are programmed to be efficient (aka lazy
when possible).
2. Procrastination in large part reflects our perennial
struggle with self-control as well as our inability to
accurately predict how we'll feel tomorrow, or the
next day.
3. We are OVERSTIMULATED – there are too many
choices of what to do.
4. Our values on time….
5. We lack the ability to practice delayed
gratification….
Focus and Orientation
• Think about the video – problems with the
video?
• Knowing vs. Behavior?
• Prefrontal Cortex – Development
• Ability to plan vs. Orientation on your life.
• Values? What are the strengths of past
oriented or present oriented people.
ADD/ADHD
1. Most Psychologists and Psychiatrists agree
that AHDH is a real thing.
2. Many believe it is over diagnosed.
3. Many ADD/ADHD drugs are amphetamines.
Or like Ritalin, are similar to the drug,
cocaine.
4. Many Psychologists believe ADD/ADHD
should be treated with therapy, not drugs.
Delayed Gratification…
Lets look at this more….
1. In your groups, divide up the four articles…
2. When you are done reading them all, discuss with
your group what YOUR article said.
3. You will be creating a poster describing your groups
view on:
1. Whether delayed gratification is a trait we are born with
or a trait we are taught. (Using EVIDENCE)
2. If the marshmallow study really demonstrates what it
says it demonstrates. (Using Evidence)
3. Implications for educational settings.
4. MAKE IT PRETTY, THESE ARE GOING UP FOR BACK TO
SCHOOL NIGHT .
Delayed Gratification
• Stanford preformed a longitudinal study of delayed
gratification in the 1970’s.
– The Marshmallow Experiment
– 30/30/30 distribution.
• Results:
– more successful than most of the population in a wide range of
professions from art and athletics, to law, medicine and finance.
– They were socially more successful, had a significantly lower
divorce rate and were even thinner, healthier, and happier than
their peers
– The ‘seekers’ tended to engage in activities which provided
them with instant gratification, such as eating, taking drugs,
watching tv, and thus they had great difficulty in working
towards long term goals that may ultimately provide them with
a greater sense of achievement and happiness with life
Delayed Gratification Revisited…
• Redid the “Marshmallow Experiment”
• Told kids if they could wait they would get way
better supplies.
• Came back and gave only HALF the kids better
supplies.
• The kids immediately LEARNED to practice
delayed gratification or not…
Happy Friday Friends!
Please get out:
1.Something to
write with
2.Something to
write on
3.A Colored Pen
Class Brainstorm
In your groups of four – Brainstorm, what have
we learned so far- what are some concrete
implications for education you can think of
based on what we have learned so far.
Ex. Behaviorism works well – We should pay
students for good grades.
Implications for Education….
Using everything we’ve learned in psychology so
far. Write out an essay/letter in which you make
suggestions to me, our principal or our school board
regarding how school should be run/ kept the same/
changed.
You must you EVIDENCE in all of your claims and
explain WHY you think the point you are making is
important for student success.
This is just practice. I will grade these over the
weekend so that on next Friday, when you are doing
your real unit final, you will get an A+
Peer Edit
1. Look over your partners’ essay and circle with
your pen the number of concrete suggestions
they made.
2. Underline each piece of evidence they
offered in support of their position.
3. Finish up by asking one question of them at
the end of the page.