1. August 21, 2012 Journal questions – Pick one
Motivation comes from within; I cannot motivate you.
Motivation is what gets you started; habit is what keeps you going.
What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? Why? Write 5 Sentences.

2. Robert H. Goddard said:
“There can be no thoughts of finishing, for ‘aiming at the stars,’ both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning.”

3. Consider this: Who is responsible for learning?
What are your study habits/ skills?
Do you consider yourself a good or bad student academically? Why?
Where does education take place?
What is “learning”?

4. Outcomes for this unit: you will…
Be able to recognize and to understand good and bad study habits and skills.
Be able to create a productive individual study plan.
Be able to use and to evaluate productive study habits/ skills with regard to one’s personal responsibility for learning and the learning process.

5. The Mindset for Learning
Motivation theory: Motivation comes from within; nothing or no one else can motivate you. Things (external – like money or speakers) only motivate us when we have a desire (internal). Motivation is what gets you started; habit is what keeps you going. To become motivated to do a behavior, you must value the behavior, see present and future relevance, and believe in your capabilities of producing the desired behavior.

6. The Mindset for Learning
Perception and “emotional blackmail”: People perceive things differently, and perception is reality. Take responsibility for your own emotional responses; no one else can hurt your feelings or make you mad. That happens when you surrender control to others.

7. The Mindset for Learning
Perception and “emotional blackmail”: The 10/90 rule: Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we respond to what happens to us. You can choose your responses; choose healthy ones.

8. The Mindset for Learning
No “FEAR”: False Education Appearing Real. You have, have had, or will have, bad parents, teachers, bosses, etc. Get over it. You are still responsible for your own performance. Hmmmm, maturity… scary stuff.

9. The Mindset for Learning
Self-fulfilling prophecy: What you expect is what you will achieve. If you want more, expect more; be consistent, avoid careless errors that cause you to slip up. Begin with the end in mind: set realistic, achievable goals, devise a plan, and work towards it.

10. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
Building memory activation: The mind is like a tape recorder. The information is there; it’s just learning how to access it.
Environment
Sensory
receptors
Sensory
Memory
“short-term”
Long-term memory
“working memory”

11. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
Schemata building: Schemata are “chunks” of information, the building blocks. Think of a little kid learning to talk. When you receive new information, you try to link it with related ideas you’ve already learned. The more links, the better the information is retained and recalled.

12. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
Difficulties in activation occur when you never really learned the information, or there are gaps in the information. You maybe don’t have enough background info to provide those links, or you were cramming!

13. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
Activation with ease or true learning (Long- term memory building): Look for cues and links to connect information; practice (Study!); personalize the information; have informal discussions (study with a partner)

14. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
We tend to build knowledge by activating a memory and by making it more detailed or specific. This process is similar to creating a bubble cluster.
Activated memory
New detail
New detail
New detail

15. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
We tend to remember
the most traumatic/ significant,
the most recent,
and the most rehearsed areas of study/ practice.

16. How Do We Know When We’ve Really Learned?
Three tips to help you pull school-related studies into your working memory are…
Practice! Rehearse! Study!
Fit learning into schemata.
Find Relevance; develop a future perspective.

17. How Does Learning Work, Though?
Learning is a process that we can identify by certain building blocks (Bloom’s taxonomy)
Knowledge: Knowing; being able to identify or to recognize concepts.
Comprehension: Being able to understand concepts.
Application: Being able to use the concepts

18. How Does Learning Work, Though?
These last three are higher level thinking skills, and are required to complete high school and college successfully:
Analysis: Being able to check the use of concepts and to observe how the areas work together or independently.
Synthesis: Being able to create new uses of the concepts

19. How Does Learning Work, Though?
Evaluation: Being able to make judgments about the use of these concepts.
“You never really know a person until you climb inside his skin and walk around in it for a while.” – Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird.
Thinking about your thinking is called Metacognition!

20. Now, How Does This All Apply to English Class?
Grammar: Basic rules and functions of a language or dialect. Standard grammar builds authority – know it and be able to use it when the situation calls for it.
Composition: Clear communication for a variety of purposes is the goal.

21. Now, How Does This All Apply to English Class?
Literature: Chronological (roughly) survey of British literature. We use reading, analytical, organizational, thinking, and communication skills. Through literature we learn history, culture, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and biography – the commonalities of human life.

22. Now, How Does This All Apply to English Class?
Vocabulary: Learned through reading and context clues (Visual), listening (auditory), note taking (kinesthetic), and using (practice).
Spelling: Use resources, take the time to be correct.
Effective Communication: Send your message in a way that people will get your meaning. Consider purpose and audience.

23. Now, How Does This All Apply to English Class?
English class is all about
thinking and communicating.
It goes beyond reading and writing to include the activities we are most involved in:
listening and speaking.

24. August 28, 2017
Class starter:
Write a five sentence paragraph about something or someone that helps you to feel motivated or inspired.

25. So, How Do I Study?
Participating: Be attentive and responsive. Work and take responsibility for your own performance. Seek improvement.
Note Taking: Use your binder. Try to identify the main ideas and understand the concepts, then put them in your own words.
Following Instructions: Be careful and precise. Seek clarification as necessary.

26. So, How Do I Study?
Reading: Read it until you know it (construct meaning rather than just seeing the words). Stop frequently and check for comprehension.
Using your best learning style: Be aware of how you learn and try to study that way.
Adapting to teaching styles – Giving and receiving feedback: Let people know where you are so you can communicate.

27. So, How Do I Study?
Studying Daily: Process smaller chunks over longer periods of time rather than trying to cram all in one night. Build schemata.
Staying organized and caught up: Use your planner; take the time every day. It is much easier to be organized than to get organized, to be caught up than to get caught up.

28. So, How Do I Study?
Working on test-taking skills: Break the test down into smaller parts, budget your time, and understand the questions.
Keeping up with your Success/ grade: Evaluate and seek understanding of your performance. Keep all your work in your binder.

29. So, How Do I Study?
Learning style or mode (modality): The manner or method one uses to learn.
No one relies on just one method.
Everyone uses all methods unless there is a physical disability.

30. So, How Do I Study? Helpful study behaviors: Visual
Notetaking, rewriting, map out the information (graphic organizers), flash cards, use your planner, etc.

31. So, How Do I Study? Auditory:
Listen to yourself (read aloud), study with a partner, put the info to a tune (Hannah Montana doing the bone dance), tape the lecture, etc.

32. So, How Do I Study? Kinesthetic:
Flash cards, projects, manipulatives, role-playing, act out the material, color-code your notes, etc.

33. My Expectation = 100% genuine effort
With 1% error…
30,000 babies would be dropped EACH YEAR by a nurse or doctor
There would be two short or long landings at airports EACH DAY.
There would be no television or telephone, electricity or water for fifteen minutes EACH DAY.

34. My Expectation = 100% genuine effort
There would be unsafe drinking water FOUR DAYS PER YEAR.
Newspapers would not be delivered FOUR DAYS PER YEAR.
EXPECT EXCELLENCE! Some jobs require it. Imagine if you are a nurse taking blood from an AIDS patient.