Student Success Learning about Learning

Give students a sense of where they are on the path to success during the semester.

Honoria Starbuck, Ph.D.Art Institute of AustinWinter 2011

I should be as good as the best student right now or I’m not happy.

Problem:

Students can undermine their own motivation by not recognizing that their learning goal is realized over time by evaluating and synthesizing the weekly material and exiting the course with new skills.

Reality:

You don’t have to know how to draw when you enter an observational drawing class.

Learning skills are fundamental for each individual in a knowledge economy.

Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives

Successful synthesis resulting in creative products happens near the end of the course.Learning starts at the bottom with remembering and goes up over time and with the addition of information, skill practice, and creating drafts and prototypes .

Bloom’s Taxonomy verbs help teachers guide students through the steps to creating.

Key words and model questions compiled by IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning http://www.uni.edu/stdteach/TWS/BloomRevisedTaxonomy_KeyWords-1-1.pdf

Students need to know that their skills build through the term from simply remembering to creating.

If students know the parts of learning, they know they are safely on the road to success.

Maslow’s hierarch of needs can be applied to student success.

Learning takes place when students feel safe and that they belong in the organization and process.

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Pyramid

Learning to learn is the ability to pursue and organize one's own learning, either individually or in groups.

When a student knows the learning process, that knowledge builds confidence to live a creative life at the peak of Maslow’s hierarchy and to flow through Bloom’s steps in a continuous process of lifelong learning.

Thank you to my wonderful students who teach me so much in every class.

Resources

Model of Student needsNC State University Online Center for Student Successhttp://www.ncsu.edu/success/aboutss.html

Maslow’s Pyramid illustrationhttp://reactiveattachmentdisorderlife.blogspot.com/2010/11/child-development-and-rad.html

Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy key words and model questions compiled by IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning http://www.uni.edu/stdteach/TWS/BloomRevisedTaxonomy_KeyWords-1-1.pdf

Bloom’s Digital Taxonomyhttp://edorigami.wikispaces.com/Bloom%27s+and+ICT+tools

Discussion over Sushi with Catherine and Knut.