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Finding Solutions
Jim ValkenburgDelta CollegeATP Online Workshop Fall 2008
The “real” issue for Humanities and Social Science students
Getting to the basics Active/Critical
Reading Highlighting and
marginal notes Linking to learn Eliciting responses
Welcome to my nightmare “ET go home…”
Initial contact Why is the student
here? Establishing goals
Creative and Critical Thinking
Creative thinking is defined as the use of divergent thinking, resulting in the generation of original ideas or solutions.
Critical Thinking may be defined as the cognitive process of actively questioning assumptions, and analyzing, synthesizing and/or evaluating data, evidence or points of view to solve a problem.
Creative and critical thinking engage the student
They increase awareness of possibilities
While goals in themselves…
Check the book for use
Highlighting and Marginal Notes
Why highlight?
The benefits of marginal notes
Did the student take notes
Were the worthwhile?
A basic idea Why take notes? When are there too
many? Too few? Connecting to the
textbook.
Having the stuff is not necessarily learning
Using the stuff is closer to it
Electrical/Chemical Process
At the Synapse
Memory as a molecule
Hemispheric Dominance Right Brain – “Global”
See patterns – the “big picture”
Simultaneous Overview
Synthetic
Visual-Spatial
Intuitive
Timeless
Motion/Music
Left Brain – “Analytic”-Detail Oriented-Step-by-Step/ Sequential Processing-Verbal/Symbolic-Computational-Rational-Time-Centered-Language
Front
Sensory means used to learn new information
Four Primary types Visual Auditory Kinesthetic Tactile
Kinesthetic and tactile styles are also called haptic styles
Primary Visual Processing
Primary Auditory Processing
Primary Auditory Processing
Primary Haptic Processing
(Front)
Primary Processing Areas
Learning by seeing Read to learn Recognize
relationships of objects in space
Can visualize information (words, charts and graphs or both)
Learn by hearing Auditory memory
Tape lectures Low auditory
preferences indicate use of other strengths Learning visual
cues or hands-on techniques
Mind-Body Connection
Learn by doing Flash Cards (self-
made) Must be physically
engaged Frequently move
around while learning
Mind-Body Connection
Learn by touch Using the hands
Focus Comfort in the way
one learns Focus
Linking styles for more depth
Focus Accessing
Information Put it in Get it out
The more ways information is put in – the more ways to get it out
Think about how one might access information via computer
Now forget it!
The Brain “thinks” omnidimensionally
Connections – Linking Styles (Changing Formats)Audio
Visual
Tactile/Kinesthetic
Visual and Auditory Visual and Haptic
Auditory and Haptic
Haptic and any other style
Open ended questions
The value of silence Rewarding
responses Getting more out of
the student
As you can see, I believe that most of the issues about tutoring the Humanities and Social Sciences revolve around basic learning strategies.
Once the student begins to use good learning strategies, s/he should be better able to process the information.