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The Reluctant Learner
Shoumita Dasgupta, PhDAssociate Professor of Medicine
Angela Jackson, MDAssociate Professor of Medicine
Karen Symes, PhDAssociate Professor of Biochemistry
Goals of the session:
• Define Reluctant Learner
• “Diagnose” the reluctant learner
• Discuss effective approaches to engage the reluctant learner
The Reluctant Learner
• Definition:– A learner who appears not to be
eager, willing and ready to learn what you want to teach
Reluctance is not a permanent personality “trait”, but a modifiable “state”
Approach the reluctant learner as you would an experiment
• STEP 1- Generate a hypothesis
• STEP 2 –Use intervention to test the hypothesis
• STEP 3- If intervention is not working, modify the hypothesis
1- Generate a hypothesis
You are in the middle of facilitating a small group discussion when one student takes out her cell phone to send a text message. Later on, she appears to be staring out the window.
The Learning Process
TEACHER LEARNER
CONTENT
TeacherLearners
Content
The Learning Process
TEACHER LEARNER
CONTENT
1- Generate a hypothesis:
• Diagnose the Learner:
“ASK”
Does the learner:
• Have a problem with Attitude?- judgmental- “bleeding heart” who can’t set limits
• Lack Skill?- unable to put knowledge to practical use- uncomfortable asking the questions
• Lack Knowledge?- clinical relevance of material- missing some “background information”
Example: Teacher Learner Content
Appears Bored
Too longwinded?
Monotone?
Exhausted from all-nighter
Just reviewed this in another class?
Distracted by life?
Scientific relevance not clear?
Background knowledge missing?
Generate a hypothesis for Educators:
STEP 2 – Use intervention to test the hypothesis
• It usually takes more than one try
• Keep the focus on the behavior
• Keep your goal realistic
What the student is doing that works
against their learning
Educational intervention strategy
The Bored/Disinterested Learner:You are in the middle of facilitating a small group discussion when one student takes out her cell phone to send a text message. Later on, she appears to be staring out the window.
STEP 3 – If intervention is not working,modify the hypothesis
•Seek help from other colleagues
Take Home Points:
• “Reluctance is in the eye of the beholder”
• The same systematic approach and the same skills that work with challenging experiments, work with challenging (reluctant) learners
• Examples of reluctant learners…
– Disinterested/Bored
– The Shy Learner
– The Know It All
– The Minimizer
– The Lazy Learner
– Passive-Aggressive
– The Head Bobber