2. What Do Students Need?  Each student needs to be like all others and at the same time, different from all others.  Students need unconditional acceptance as human beings.  Students need to believe they can become something better than they are.  Students need help in living up to their dreams.  Students have to make their own sense of things. (Tomlinson, 1999)

3. What Do Students Need?  Students need teachers to collaborate with them in order to more effectively and coherently make sense of things.  Students need power over their lives and learning.  Students need help to develop that power and use it wisely.  Students need to be secure in a larger world. (Tomlinson, 1999)

4. Connecting with Today’s Students Learners should acquire:  Skills (Psychomotor Learning Domain) Learning manual or physical skills.  Knowledge (Cognitive Learning Domain) Acquiring mental skills.  Attitudes (Affective Learning Domain) Growing in feelings or emotional areas.

5. Psychomotor Learning Domain  Includes physical movement, coordination, and the use of motor skills.  Requires practice to develop.  Measured in terms of speed, precision, distance, procedures, or techniques in execution.  Generally emphasized in career education.

6. Psychomotor Learning Domain NaturalizationArticulationPrecisionManipulationImitation

7. Cognitive Learning Domain  Includes development of intellectual skills.  Requires recall or recognition of facts, procedures, and concepts.  Outlines a movement from simple to complex behaviors (Bloom’s Taxonomy).  Academic education and learning goals are based on cognitive learning.

8. Affective Learning Domain  Includes the manner in which we deal with things emotionally.  Includes feelings, values, appreciation, motivations, attitudes, and enthusiasms.  Typically receives less attention.  Considered “soft skills” in education and business.

9. Affective Learning Domain InternalizingOrganizingValuingRespondingReceiving

10. Why is This Important to Me? The theory of student learning breaks down learning into three understandable components  Develop learning goals and targets  Plan curriculum  Assess student achievement