The learning centers
A special station located in the classroom where one student can quietly work and learn.
What is the learning center?
To lead the group by soliciting everyone's input and facilitating the group discussion.
What is group facilitator?
Making a continual steady effort and sticking to a task until it is accomplished.
What is perseverance?
Who identifies the problems and the percentage of decisions that are made by the students.
What is two major differences between discovery and inquiry?
The writer speculates about the causes and efforts of a specific event?
What is analysis?
Performance expectations for cognitive learning are quite specific, and the focus is on mastery of the content.
What is direct-learning center?
To record all group activities and processes.
What is recorder?
When students develop impulse control, they think before acting.
What is decreasing impulsivity?
Traditional, didactic, cookbook teaching, where both problem and the process for resolving it are defined for the student.
What is level I inquiry?
The writer narrates a specific event in his or her life and states or implies significance of the event.
What is autobiographical incident?
The goal is to provide opportunity for exploration, enrichment, motivation, and creative discovery.
What is open-learning center?
To see that all members carry out their respective roles.
What is taskmaster?
Ability to listen to others, to emphasize with and to understand their point of view, is one of the highest forms of intelligent behavior.
What is listening to others with understanding and empathy.
The students are carefully guided through the investigation to discovery?
What is guided discovery?
The writer tells about a person, group, or event that was objectively observed from the outside.
What is eyewitness account?
Performance expectations are quite specific, but the focus is on the development of a particular skill or process.
What is skill center?
To obtain, maintain, and return materials needed for the group to function.
What is materials manager?
Learning to plan, monitor, assess, and reflect on one's own thinking.
What is metacognition?
Where students actually decide and design processes for their inquiry.
What is Level II?
Through incident and description, the writer characterizes a person he or she knows well.
What is firsthand biographical sketch?
Centers should always be used for educational purposes, never for punishment.
Center should be designed with a theme in mind.
Guidelines to construct a LC.
To identify and record the sequence and processes of the group's thinking.
What is thinking monitor?
The ability to approach a problem from a new angle using a novel approach.
What is flexibility in thinking?
Students recognize and identify the problem as well as decide and design processes for their inquiry.
What is Level III?
The writer describes and analyzes a specific problem and then proposes and argues for a solution.
What is problem solving?