Intelligence
The theory that Howard Gardner came up with.
What is Multiple Intelligences theory?
Activities specifically designed to increase competence. Critical to the development of expertise.
What is deliberate practice?
Usually measured in one of two ways: 1) Teacher-assigned grades or GPA. 2) Standardized test scores
Designed to create strong incentives to improve achievement
High-stakes tests
This is the term that Robert Sternberg uses to justify his theory.
What is 'successful intelligence'?
Focus on student learning, perceive unique individuals in the class, use unique strategies within the classroom, plan different strategies, make long-term and short-term plans, skilled at making student thinking public, etc.
What is are attributes of a gifted teacher?
Designed to measure what children already know, rather than capacity to learn and give an example.
What are acheivement tests, such as the ACT or SAT?
Under this model students are diagnosed with a learning disabilty if they do not learn from the instruction that most students learn from.
Respone to Intervention (RTI) model
Analytic, Practical, and Creative
What are the three components of Sternberg's Theory of Successful Intelligence?
Provide time to practice, make sure practice is deliberate, help learners feel motivated to engage in deliberate practice, and explain to learners the importance of deliberate practice.
What are guidelines for helping students develop expertise?
Grades tend to decline from sixth to twelfth grade due to...
What is major transtitions, such as going from junior high to high school?
Intelligence testing to diagnose students for special education services and to diagnose learning disabilites
What are two major classroom purposes of intelligence testing?
Academic achievement and life outcomes
What do individual differences in intelligence predict?
Focus on student behavior, perceive the class as a whole, teach to the entire class, use one strategy, focus on short-term plans, miss signs of lack of understanding, disorganized, and has difficulty modifying instruction during a lesson.
What is a novice teacher?
When there is less of this sort of opportunity, there is more low achievement.
Opportunity to learn.
Researchers who study talent like this tend to view ability as caused by practice
What is the development of expertise?
The discrepancy between a student's achievement and intelligence or as a lack of response to instruction that is effective for most other students.
What is the definition of 'learning disability'?
It takes this many years of intensive practice in order to reach eminent level of expertise.
How much is ten years?
Classroom skills that lead to higher academic achievement.
Attentiveness, persistence, and organization.
Improved thinking and memory in the area of expertise is..
What is a less common outcome of expertise?