Tuesday, September 22, 2009

Chapter Three Part One...as we eat all the cookies, and drink all of the tea.

what will I do to help students practice and deepen their understanding new knowledge?

Students need opportunities to practice and deepen because it can be faded and lost.

Research and Theory
Actively processing information is the beginning point of learning. Exposure involves practice and knowledge deepening activities.

Schema Development
Gradually integrating new knowledge into a learner's base.

Accomodation pg 59

page 60 Procedural knowledge vs declarative knowledge: repeats what we read above and clarifies it further.

Revision is important to declarative knowledge - and revising is focused on writing tasks.

Error analysis is through continual examination you can determine if you have conceptual accuracy.

Another way is identifying similarities and differences - creating analogies, through homework, teacher assigned tasks.

Grade level of homework - Cindy comments there does not seem to be any special rule regarding this. One of the most common reasons for assigning homework is that it extends the opportunity for extended learning.

Parental involvement is covered then. We did not really identify with this, as we deal with college students.

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