• Director's Note
• Get Training Materials
• Sessions This Week
  • In the Classroom: Taking Charge of Your Own Learning
  • In the Library: Reading Resources
  • In Practice: Concept Mapping (export and ftp)
• Training Checklist
• Next Week's Sessions

Director's Notes

Welcome to your eighth week as an intern at the Institute.

You should be moving into your second week of implementing your behavior modification plan and collecting and recording data. You have 3 more weeks of collecting data and then another week to analyze your data and write up your report. I have been providing you with suggestions for ways to continue to work on this project while you are collecting data so that you get a portion of it written before the final week

I think that you should consider that you have made it over the hump for this course given you now have the week in which we cover 3 chapters over and done with. You should be working on your ABA Project and your concept mapping assignments. Given the diligence with which everyone has been working in this course, I have also decided that everyone can have an extra week on the concept mapping assignment if you need it. Originally, I had it slotted to be due at the end of this week, but I think everyone might need a little breathing room so an extra week should help with that I hope. The new due date for the concept map is October 31 (Boo!). If you have big plans for Halloween then you might want to go ahead and get it finished and posted, etc. this week as planned and that is certainly fine with me. Please remember to begin the process of ftping your concept map to the student server early in the week so you can ask Melissa for assistance if needed. Please do not wait until the day the concept map is due to try to ftp only to find you are having difficulties. This will most likely result in a late submission. Do not let this happen to you.

Our objectives this week are to:

1. Recognize examples of metacognitive activities
2. Describe metacognitive limitations in children
3. Recognize differences between good and poor readers
4. Recognize examples of readers using metacognitive strategies
5. Describe characteristics of self-regulated learning and learners
6. Recognize examples of self-regulation activities
7. Choose appropriate strategies to assist students with learning
8. Recognize examples of elaboration, organization, note taking, comprehension monitoring, mnemonics and discuss advantages of using each of these different techniques
9. Recognize examples of different mnemonic techniques
10. Recognize statements consistent with research on summarizing, identifying important information, epistemological beliefs, study skills, mnemonics
11. Recognize characteristics and examples of authentic activities, describe the advantages and disadvantages of authentic activities, and recognize statements consistent with research on authentic activities.
12. Recognize statements consistent with cooperative groups, scaffolding, and teaching mathematical problem solving
13. Distinguish between heuristics and algorithms
14. Recognize examples of different perspectives of/approaches to problem solving
15. Recognize examples of someone using heuristics
16. Recognize examples of ill defined problems
17. Recognize illustrations of functional fixedness, mental set, retrieval, and metacognition in problem solving
18. Recognize problem solving strategies of different learners
19. Distinguish between positive and negative transfer, near and far transfer, specific and general transfer, vertical and lateral transfer
20. Recognize examples of activities that promote or do not promote transfer
21. Recognize statements consistent with situated learning and transfer
    
    

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Materials

Each week this section will provide you with any necessary material that will be essential for you completing sessions.

Task #1: Install the FTP software.

Very briefly, FTP (File Transfer Protocol) is used to transfer programs or other information from one computer to another. This simple tool will let you do many things: download software, upload your own web pages, transfer information between your home and work machines, and more.  An FTP program will allow you to upload the web pages and graphics you build to the student web server.  For this course, SecureFTP (for Windows and Mac OSX users) or Fetch (for MacIntosh users)  is the program you will need.  First, check and see if you already have it on your computer.  If not, then installation and configuration instructions are available from the IT KnowledgeBase: http://portal.knowledgebase.net/article.asp?article=158178&p=6390.
(Note: If you plan to install and use the FTP program on a work computer, you need to check with the system administrator to find out if there are any system-imposed restrictions or security settings that would prevent you from installing or using the program at work. Some network setups do not allow the use of FTP programs [especially at schools]. If you cannot use a computer at work for FTP, make sure you have access to another computer that you can use to complete this task.)

Task #2: Downloadthe FTP directions for your concept map.

Task #3: Download the troubleshooting guide (34KB DOC file) to use if you have problems FTPing your concept map.

• Email your Director;
• Email the Mentor;
• Email other interns.
• Refer to the Course FAQ.