February 10th, 2015

Tuesday, February 10th, 2015

Circle Question:

Why do you think that kids drop out of high school?  Do you know anyone who dropped out and why they did?

Quiz: 

Six Perspectives

Article:

Poorer kids often depressed as teenagers

Transcript Activity

Breaking into groups you will investigate these transcripts.  What can you tell me about the person in each?  How do we explain their record in school?  What could influence them?  What might there home-life be like?  Friends? Childhood? etc.

Transcript #1

Transcript #2

Activity forClass:

Interviewing adults in building about biggest influences in students academic achievement?  What can we really do about it?

You will be interviewing staff in the building using the questions generated the in class.  Going out in groups of two or three you will conduct interviews using the transcripts.

For the interview process make  sure you do the following:

1. Introduce your self

2. Explain that this is part of your Psychology class

3. Use the transcripts as the basis for you questioning.

4. Make sure to record the staff responses.

5. Thank the staff for their time.

Homework:

Start in class, how would you explain using the perspectives why one of these students did so poorly in school while the other had great success?