Student performance objectives:
Metacognition and Self-Regulation:
Metacognition and Self-Regulation (PowerPoint presentation)
Deep versus Surface Learning Strategies (PowerPoint presentation)
Additional Thoughts on Deep versus Surface Learning
Foundation of Psychological Principles
The Role of Mental Models in Teaching and Learning
Student Learning Styles (PowerPoint presentation: visual, auditory, kinesthetic, etc.)
Online Learning Style Survey (find out what sort of learning styles you prefer; results are returned immediately; adopt the study skills most suitable to your style preferences)
More Learning Styles Information (from Intelicus)
Learning Styles and Strategies (active vs. reflective; sensing vs. intuition; visual vs. verbal; sequential vs. global)
A Chart of Learning Style Traits This chart helps you determine your learning style; read the word in the left column and then answer the questions in the successive three columns to see how you respond to each situation. Your answers may fall into all three columns, but one column will likely contain the most answers. The dominant column indicates your primary learning style.
Diagnoser.com At this web site you will find diagnostic instructional tools for middle and high school teachers and students. These tools, which include web-served assessments, are aligned with National Standards and Benchmarks in science and mathematics. Resources in this project have been developed and tested by teachers and are based on research into the teaching and learning of math and science.
Dealing with Student Difficulties:
Helping failing students. (Password required - see instructor)
Barriers to learning physics. (Password required - see instructor)
Especially for Parents and Students:
SAAMEE: A Model for Academic Success (Course grades in relation to academic behaviors)
10 Effective Study Habits (from Intelicus)
Tips for Making and Following a Study Schedule (added 11/14/13)
The Crow and the Pitcher (A metacognitive talk by high school physics teacher and 2007 PTE program graduate Rebecca Vieyra-Wenning to students attending the Expanding Your Horizons program on March 20, 2010)
Physics Classroom Tutorial The Physics Classroom Tutorial is an online physics tutorial written for introductory physics students. The tutorial was originally developed for Regular-level Physics students at Glenbrook South High School in Glenview, Illinois. The popularity of the pages have since increased and are now used by teachers and students from junior high school through college. The Tutorial covers basic physics topics using informative graphics and an easy-to-understand language. Each unit is broken up into lessons and sub-lessons. A lesson resembles the type and extent of coverage given to that physics topic in class. The sub-lessons are accompanied by Check Your Understanding sections, providing an opportunity to assess one's understanding of the lesson material. The tutorial, when combined with other resources at this site (such as Multimedia Physics Studios and the Minds On Physics Internet Modules) provides a student of physics a great opportunity to learn and to test their understanding.
Understanding University Success (This free 80-page PFD describes foundational skills and content standards (elsewhere referred to as Knowledge and Skills for University Success) in English, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, second languages and the arts. Available free of charge, this booklet addresses each discipline in a separate chapter. Each chapter comprises two sections: foundations and standards. The foundations section describes the skills, behaviors and attitudes expected of incoming students. The standards section lists the content knowledge that helps maximize the probability of success in entry-level university courses.
Student Learning and Study Strategies
Study Guides and Strategies (takes you off site to a treasure trove of ideas)
Additional Background Articles: (List compiled by Terry McHugh, Professional Development Coordinator, Homewood-Flossmoor High School District 233.)
How to Study Physics
A reprint of a 1955 article with practical advice for various aspects relating to the study of physics.Metacognition, Prior Knowledge, and Motivation
The National Center to Improve the Tools of Educators offers this an article that describes the importance of metacognition as it related to reading comprehension. The authors provide information on the influence of prior knowledge and motivation on reading comprehension.
Cognitive Strategies
A meta-analysis of review research, "Advances in Research on Instruction" provides teachers with guidelines for assisting children in the development of cognitive strategies. Authors explain the importance of scaffolding theory in relation to children's learning. Provides suggestions for instruction including: providing guided practice, reciprocal teaching, and modeling think alouds.
Cognitive Strategy Instruction
Another meta-analysis of cognitive strategy research ranging from 1975 to 1990, the author has drawn an impressive number of conclusions, and, even more importantly, has produced a technology for continuing this line of research and practice.
Inquiry Charts (PDF)
In this article, "Critical reading/thinking across the curriculum: Using I-charts to support learning", the author gives a description of how to create and use an inquiry chart to promote students' comprehension. He describes the importance of teaching children to compare and contrast information about a topic from multiple sources.
(Last updated 4/14/2010, cjw)