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Engaging Diverse Students in Your Classroom
IVY Tech Community College
Adjunct Conference
April 19, 2008
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Think about your favorite cartoon character…..
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Diversity
• Age – Generation• Socio Economic• Family Education/Experience• Race, culture, religion• Ethnicity• Gender• Politics• Major/ education background
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OBJECTIVES
• CLASSROOMS TODAY ARE DIVERSE• MAKING CONNECTIONS FACILITATE
LEARNING• STUDENTS LEARN THROUGH VARIETY OF
DIFFERENT CONNECTIONS• WHAT CAN WE DO TO PROVIDE
ENVIRONMENTS FOR THOSE CONNECTIONS TO OCCUR.
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Learning is About Making Connections: “A-HA”
• ABSTRACT TO CONCRETE
• CONCRETE TO ABSTRACT
• BETWEEN TWO FORMERLY ISOLATED CONCEPTS
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Making Connections is Imperative for Learning
• ““We must explore ways to help students make We must explore ways to help students make those connections…”those connections…”
1.1. CognitiveCognitive
2.2. NeuralNeural
3.3. SocialSocial
4.4. Experiential Experiential
Dr. K. Patricia CrossDr. K. Patricia Cross
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HOW?
• WHEN THEIR EXPERIENCES ARE SO DIFFERENT?….
• AND THEY ARE ALL IN THE SAME CLASSROOM?
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• WHAT TO THEY HAVE IN COMMON?
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How Adults Think
• Perceptions are reality
• Inundated with data
• Forget fast
• Learning styles differ
• Use different languages
• Reference experiences
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How Adults are Motivated
• Attitude
• Values
• Ego involvement
• Credibility
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What Adults Need
• Desire to Learn
• Learn by Doing
• Center on Problems/Solutions
• Experiences Important
• Informality
• Variety of Methods
• Guidance, not grades
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They Differ in Style and Approach
• Find the Motivator
• Define the Attention Span
• Create options in Organization/Strategies
• Create Different Relationships
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Differences in Style
• Generation Y:– Not like to memorize– Want faculty to act as their peers– Have shortest attention span– Motivated by technology– Expect fun and entertainment
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Differences in Style
• Generation X– Memorize begrudgingly– Recognize Faculty authority, but ignore it– I like it when class is fun; but and I have other
more interesting things to do.– Motivated by reduced load and getting finished.– Have attention span if interested.– Is class over yet? I have lots I want to do.
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Differences in Style
• Baby Boomers– Memorize to get ahead; a tool to use.– Recognize faculty authority; but complain
about it.– Create own fun in and out of class.– Motivated by performance; group dynamics– Have longer attention span
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Differences in Style
• Matures – GI Generation– All faculty have complete authority– Hard assignments make you tough– Longest undivided attention span.– Gotta memorize to learn it!
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1. Learning is About: The Powerful Paradigm
• How do we identify it?
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These powerful experiences are called our...
• Boundary
• Box
• Truth
• Belief
• Paradigm
• Schema
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2. Learning is About: Using Whole Brain Thinking
• Right Brain• Left Brain• Shift from divergent to
convergent thought.
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Right Left Brained• emotional, intuitive,
lateral, diffused, integrative, imaginative, creating, analogous,dreaming wondering, timeless
• rational, logical, linear, sequential, discriminative, deductive, active, analytical, defining, goal-centered, questioning
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Skill Builder - Roman Numerals
•Turn the Roman Numeral Seven: VII
into an 8 by adding a single line
_________. Now, turn the 9 into a 6 By adding a single line _______.
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How to move from one to another
• Right to Left– Print
– count
– multiplication tables
– alphabet
– outline
– diagram
• Left to Right– walk backwards
– sit on floor
– cursive
– mind map
– draw illustrations
– cartoon
– metaphor
– music/candles
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3. Learning is About: Attention Span Realities
• 7/7 Rule
• 3 Rule
• First /last
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TEACHING THE ADULT IS LIKE FLYFISHING
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4. Learning is About: How We Organize Information
• Single Focused
• Multi-Task Focused
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What is this?
• QWERTYUIOP
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What is the pattern?
• 1,4,9,16,25,36,49• Painted eggs, fireworks, champagne, candy
canes, shamrocks, jack-o-lanterns.
• We recognize sequences, cycles, shapes, processes, similarities, and probabilities.
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Single Focused Thinkers• Do one thing at time• Concentrate on the job• Committed to tasks• Adhere to a plan• Respect privacy• Emphasize
promptness
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Multi-focused Thinkers• Do many things at
once• Highly distractible• Committed to people• Change plans easily• Interrupt more than
value privacy• Borrow & lend easily
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5. Learning is About: How We Process Information
• Visual
• Auditory
• Kinesthetic
• Emotions
• Intuition
• Scientific inquiry
• Linear/logic
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Is it Really True?…
• 10% of what they hear
• 60% of what they see
• 90% of what they do
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6. Learning is About: Using Need Based Language
• Personality Traits/Needs
• Value
• Control
• Self Esteem
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How Do We Provide a Stimulus for Making Connections?
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Strategies for Cognitive, Neural, Experiential, Social Connections
1. Frame
2. Metaphors
3. Mind Mapping
4. Brainstorming
5. Celebrate/FUN
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Framing Concept
Transition
Application
Anchors Benefits
Transition
Anchor
Application
Benefits
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The Frame
• Transition: Take the adult student from one place to another
• Benefit: WII-FM- What’s in it for me?
• Anchor: Anchors in the mind: story,illustration,data, testimony,visual
• Application: What do I do? What is my next step? How will I use this?
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2. Share EXPERIENCES…Ask for a METAPHOR
•Life is Like….
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3. MIND MAPPING
Relocation
goodparking
sametown
building
buy/rentnear MAC
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4. BRAINSTORMING is...
• Cross-Fertilization
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Rules for Brainstorming
• Generate many ideas
• Not criticism
• Share ideas
• Quantity more than quality
• Moves quickly
• Everyone participates
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5. Celebrate...Have FUN
•Give me
a “W”
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SUMMARY
• CLASSROOMS ARE DIVERSE.• ALL ADULTS HAVE NEEDS FOR SOCIAL,
EXPERIENTIAL, NEURAL AND COGNITIVE CONNECTIONS FOR LEARNING TO OCCUR.
• WE CAN PROVIDE THOSE EXPERIENCES THROUGH KNOWLEDGE ABOUT ADULTS AND TECHNIQUES THAT WORK.
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“Creating a climate for learning is the challenge that lies ahead. It will require the active participationof every member of the collegecommunity, working to establishthe connections that constitutelearning.”
Dr. K. Patricia Cross