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The College Classroom
Week 2: Developing Expertise
October 21 – 23, 2014
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Deliberate practice [1]
activity that’s explicitly intended to improve performance
that reaches for objectives just beyond one’s level of
competence
provides feedback on results
involves high levels of repetition
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Expertise Development
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10,000 hours of deliberate practice:
4 hrs / day for 12 years
3 hrs / day for 16 years
You deliberately practiced
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o running
o yoga
o tying knots
o English
o piano
o meditation
o singing
o F-Zero GX
o fishing
o photography
o YuGiOh
o Spanish
o bharatanatyam
o chemistry
o mtn biking
o drums
o writing
o baseball
o rock climbing
o Japanese
o math
o coding
o physics
o research
o French
o Japanese
shodo
o statistics
o volleyball
o rowing
o Arabic
o swimming
o Swedish
o flute
o learning
o guitar
o checking
privilege
o track & field
o posture
o spelling
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There’s something about this that bothers
me: a 5-foot NBA star? Huh?
1. If it’s bothering me, then it’s probably
bothering some of my students.
2. Maybe one of my students has a solution
or explanation – their diversity is an asset
3. How can I stimulate a conversation for
everyone in the classroom rather than
the few who would raise their
hands if I asked?
True or False
With 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, a 5-ft tall man
can be a basketball star in the NBA.
A) true
B) false
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True or False
With 10,000 hours of deliberate practice, a 5-ft tall man
can be a basketball star in the NBA.
A) totally true – I’m so sure about this, I could stand
up in class and convince everyone
B) maybe true – I think it’s true but I’m not exactly
sure why
C) maybe false – I think it’s false but I’m not exactly
sure why
D) absolutely false – I’m so sure about this, I could
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Certainly some important traits are partly inherited, such as
physical size and particular measures of intelligence, but those
influence what a person doesn’t do more than what he does; a five-
footer will never be an NFL lineman, and a seven-footer will never
be an Olympic gymnast.
Geoffrey Colvin [1]
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Tip Sheet: Perfect Practice [1]
Approach each critical task with an explicit goal of getting much
better at it.
As you do the task, focus on what’s happening and
why you’re doing it the way you are.
After the task, get feedback on your performance from multiple
sources. Make changes in your behavior as necessary.
Continually build mental models of your situation –
your industry, your company, your career. Enlarge the
models to encompass more factors.
Do these steps regularly, not sporadically. Occasional practice
does not work.
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discipline area of research
Approach each critical task with an explicit goal of getting much
better at it.
As you do the task, focus on what’s happening and
why you’re doing it the way you are.
After the task, get feedback on your performance from multiple
sources. Make changes in your behavior as necessary.
Continually build mental models of your situation –
your industry, your company, your career. Enlarge the
models to encompass more factors.
Do these steps regularly, not sporadically. Occasional practice
does not work
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In a moment but not yet, each table will discuss how one tip is
revealed in your fields of expertise. Use the whiteboard to capture
ideas. Choose someone to share your group’s ideas with the class.
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discipline area of research
Students put their finished ideas on
poster paper. Whiteboards can
(should!) be used to capture thinking
along the way.
Intelligence is grown
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Dr. Carol Dweck – Stanford Convincing people to adopt a “growth mindset” (not
“fixed mindset”) leads to higher GPAs, higher graduation rates. [Week 4: Fixed/Growth Mindsets]
Dr. Anders Ericcson – Florida State Univ. Studies development of expertise (sports figures,
pianists, chess players).[2] Expertise is not an innate trait, it is developed through
Long duration (10,000 hours)
Daily (4 hours a day)
Deliberate Practice
New meta-analysis suggests
“10,000 hr rule” does not
always apply. Some reach
expert levels quicker.[3]
Part 2:
Teaching the development of expertise
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Development of Mastery [4]
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Wait! When introducing
a graph for the first time,
explain the “architecture” of the
graph before addressing the data
and message the graph contains.
Level of Expertise
Development of Mastery [4]
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incompetent competent
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Level of Expertise
Development of Mastery [4]
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Level of Expertise
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Level of Expertise
Development of Mastery [4,5]
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Think about the house you grew up in
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How many windows?
As you counted the windows, did you see them
from the outside or from the inside of the house?
If a Stage 4 Window-Counting professor is an “outsider”,
s/he will thoughtfully create lessons and practice for
counting from the outside. Many students will be lost.
A Stage 5 professor will know there are other ways to count
windows and will create lessons where each student can
connect the concept to his/her own knowledge and skills.
The next time you teach a course, what will
you do to help your students do these things?
Approach each critical task with an explicit goal of getting much
better at it.
As you do the task, focus on what’s happening and
why you’re doing it the way your are.
After the task, get feedback on your performance from multiple
sources. Make changes in your behavior as necessary.
Continually build mental models of your situation –
your industry, your company, your career. Enlarge the
models to encompass more factors.
Do these steps regularly, not sporadically. Occasional practice
does not work.
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3
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discipline area of research
Deliberate Practice: for you
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Reach for objectives JUST beyond where you are:
Work on incrementally harder problems.
Try variations on ones from class, homework, quizzes.
Practice consistently (every day)
And practice a LOT
Get FEEDBACK on your practice
Or at least self-analyze “continuously observing results,
making appropriate adjustments”
What to practice?
Maybe harder, but exam questions (if they are
understandable)
Deliberate Practice: for you
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Reach for objectives JUST beyond where you are:
Work on incrementally harder problems.
Try variations on ones from class, homework, quizzes.
Practice consistently (every day)
And practice a LOT
Get FEEDBACK on your practice
Or at least self-analyze “continuously observing results,
making appropriate adjustments”
What to practice?
Maybe harder, but exam questions (if they are
understandable)
your students
Set
Provide
Give
Help them
Suggest
Big Question
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Where does the motivation to
engage in deliberate practice
come from?
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Colvin: “People hate abandoning the notion that they could
coast to fame and riches if only they found their talent.”
Gladwell: “Why are we so hostile to the notion that what
separates the genius from the rest of us is that the genius
loves that he or she does more than we do?” [6]
Gladwell: “Love is not the complete explanation: love is the
way in.” [6]
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The discovery that students don't love the new teacher's content
area is one of those school of hard knock lessons. Graduate
education reinforces the centrality of discipline-based content
knowledge. Having immersed themselves in its study for years and
having been surrounded with colleagues equally enamored with the
area, new faculty arrive at those first teaching jobs no longer
objective about how the rest of the world views their content
domain.
Maryellen Weimer [7]
Instructor has different pre-existing
knowledge. And motivation.
Next week: Learning Outcomes
Watch the blog for next week’s
readings and assignments
short paper
math worksheet
read resources about teaching statements
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References
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1. Colvin, G. (2006, October 19). What it takes to be great. Fortune, 88- 96. Available at money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2006/10/30/8391794/index.htm
2. Ericsson, K.A., Krampe, R. Th., & Tesch-Romer, C. (1993). The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance. Psychological Review 100, 3, 363-406.
3. Mcnamara, B.N., Hambrick, D.Z., & Oswald, F.L. (2014). Deliberate Practice and Performance in Music, Games, Sports, Education, and Professions: A Meta-Analysis. Psychological Science 25, 8, 1608-1618.
4. Sprague, J., & Stuart, D. (2000). The speaker’s handbook. Fort Worth, TX: Harcourt College Publishers.
5. DiPeitro, M. (2014). 2.4.3 Classroom Climate [video file] Retrieved from https://www.coursera.org/course/stemteaching
6. Malcolm Gladwell, in “Radiolab: Secrets of Success”, aired 26 July 2010. www.radiolab.org/blogs/radiolab-blog/2010/jul/26/secrets-of-success/
7. Weimer, M. (2010). New Faculty: Beliefs That Prevent and Promote Growth, in the book Inspired College Teaching: A Career-Long Research for Professional Growth. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass. (Reprinted in Tomorrow’s Professor email Newsletter October 15, 2013) Available at http://cgi.stanford.edu/~dept-ctl/cgi-bin/tomprof/posting.php?ID=1279