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

Psych2. Student

performance3. 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 Test2. Notes/Note-taking stuffs

Today:3. Multiple Intelligences4. Looking at Intelligence5. Learning styles vs

intelligence vs talents6. Problems vs potentials7. 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

4matType 1 – personal connectionType 2 – lecture – note taking Type 3 – hands on experiment Type 4 – creative – innovate

Learning StylesAuditoryVisualKinestheticVerbal

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. Drive2. Motivation3. Procrastination

Motivation

So if genius is all about hard work – how do we motivate ourselves and others to do well? Brainstorm- 1. 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 with2.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.