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Helping Students Learn in a LearnerCentered Environment- What Neuroscience
has to Teach Us.
Developed by Professor Terry DoyleFerris State University
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Slides available fordownload at:
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Facilitating Learning in a LearnerCentered Environment- What Current
Research has to Teach Us.
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Presentation Outcomes
By the end of the presentationparticipants will:
1. Have a better understanding of
how to help students learn inharmony with their brains
2.Have developed news ideas forhow to let our students do the work.
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Workshop Outcomes
3. Have developed new ways of using information patterns to enhanceyour students' learning
4. Have developed new ways to helpstudents recall course content
5. Have developed new ways to usemultisensory approaches to teaching
and learning
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Critical Thinking
• The ability to think critically is greatlyenhanced when people aremaximizing their brains’ learning
abilities.
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The Role of a Facilitator
• 1. Must have aclearunderstanding of
how students’learn in generaland specificunderstanding of
which skills andstrategies mightbest helpstudents to learn
their course
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Reason to Teach Students How to Learn
• The meaning of knowing has shiftedfrom being able to remember andrepeat information to being able tofind and use it.
• The goal of education is betterconceived as helping studentsdevelop the intellectual tools and
learning strategies needed to acquirethe knowledge necessary to think productively.
• Nobel Laureate Herbert Simon 1996
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Reason to Teach Students How to Learn
• If our students do notunderstand the learningprocess, the chief engine of
education—they are not goingto learn very much in ourcourses no matter what we do.
(L. Gardiner 1994 Redesigning Higher Education: Producing Dramatic
Gains in Student Learning)
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• One of the mostvaluableactions wecould take toimprovelearning— andthus theproductivity of
both our studentsand ourinstitutions—would be to
teach ourstudents how
R e a so n to Te a ch S tu d e n ts H o w to
Learn
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The Role of a Facilitator
2. Facilitatorsare planners of
learning. A. what content
is mostimportant for
students to know
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What is the optimal learning outcome of anycourse?
What would make us happy (from all
that we taught—the skills, content andbehaviors) that our students remembered
and could use six months to a year afterthey finished our class?
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The Role of a Facilitator
• B. What skills andstrategies dostudents need to
learn and will Ineed to teachthem these skillsand strategies
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Learning How to Learn includes all of the followingareas.
• Ways of organizing information
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• Ways of comprehending information
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• Ways of recalling information
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• Ways of finding sources of information
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• Ways of thinking about information
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Different Skills for DifferentCourses
• Math
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• Chemistry
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• Biology
• Physics
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• EnglishComposition
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• Sociology
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The Role of a Facilitator
• C. What is the bestuse of my time inthe classroom?
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1. givingfeedback
– 2. givinginstruction
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3. working oneto one
– 4. observinglearningactivities
– 5. engaging
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The Role of a Facilitator
• D. Designer of learning activitiesthat allow the
students to dothe work.
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The Role of a Facilitator
• F. Develop systemsfor givingstudents
ongoing,meaningfulfeedback thatrequires the
students to dosomething withthe feedback
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The Definition of Learning
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• Learning is achange in theneuron-patterns of thebrain.
(Ratey, 2002)
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