March 7, 2024

Thursday March 7, 2024

Homework: SQ3R Modules 42 and 42.  This is due Monday.

Circle: If you could choose an area of your life to be more intelligent about what would it be and why?  Examples: 

Working definition of Intelligence: The ability to learn from experience, solve problems, and use knowledge to adapt to new situations.

Circle: You are smarter than some people and not as smart as others.  What does "smart" mean in this context?  Write down you answer first.

Dealing with troublesome teenagers...

I had a conversation with a teacher recently who said that we should give kids a test going into middle school and divide them up between kids who are going to college and kids who should go into the trades or workforce.  

Turn and Talk: How should we use testing of intelligence in schools, college and the workplace?

Turn and Talk: Kindergarten Teachers and predicting students success.

Turn and Talk: Kids drop out in 2nd grade and the process is only formalized in HS

Learning Target: 37-1 

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Activity: What is intelligence? The question on each of these;  Is this intelligence?

Kim Peek
Stephen Wilshire
Kelvin Doe 

Howard Gardener's Multiple Intelligences

Crash Course: Controversy of Intelligence

Terms to know for test:

• Intelligence
• g
• fluid/crystalized intelligence
• Factor Analysis
• Howard Gardner
• Robert Sternberg
• Emotional intelligence
• Alfred Binet
• Stanford-Binet & Wechsler
• IQ
• Validity
• Reliability
• Standardization
• Normal distribution
• Stereotype Threat
• heritability/coefficient

Turn and Talk:  How many of you immediatly asked after the IQ test thursday how others did?  How did taking the test and the subsequent score make you feel?

What you should know.

TEDtalk: None of the Above

Learning Target: Module 37 Introduction of Intelligence

-Discuss the definition of intelligence and the present the arguments for g.

-Compare Gardner's and Sternberg's theories of multiple intelligences, and discuss criticisms they have faced.

-Describe the four components of emotional intelligence.

Learning Targets: Module 38 Assessing Intelligence

-Describe the characteristics of an intelligence test, and distinguish between achievement and aptitude tests.

-Discuss when and why intelligence tests were created, and explain how today's tests differ from early intelligence tests.

-Describe the normal curve, and explain standardization, reliability and validity.

Learning Targets : Module 39 The dynamics of intelligence

-Analyze how again affects crystalized and fluid intelligence.

-Define cross-sectional studies, and explain why it is important to know which method was used.

-Describe the stability of intelligence test scores over the lifespan.

-Discuss the traits of those at the low and high intelligence extremes.