1. The two instructional strategies that I believe would be very important in the classroom would be understanding the best ways in which children learn as well as finding ways of helping students solidify them in their long term memory.
2.Low-road transfer involves the spontaneous, automatic transfer of highly practiced skills, with little need for reflective thinking.This results for extensive practice of a skill in a variety of contexts until it becomes flexible and developed to automatically. I think that an example of this would be if a student can learn behavioral skills in the class (raising hands, taking turns,) that transfers to their everyday lives.
High-road transfer is when a person purposely and consciously applies general knowledge, a strategy, or a principle learned in one situation to another situation, it is defined by mindful abstraction. I think that an example of this would be in math classes when they use previous knowledge to help them with a more advanced problem they are working on.
3. I believe that high-road is used more because teachers that I have observed tried to intertwine lessons. They used what they were using in social studies to help with their art project or science project. This allows students to draw on their previous knowledge to create further knowledge.
4. I have used both heuristic and algorithms when solving problems in math class. There are some questions that you know an algorithm that allow you to get to the answer faster but there are some problem solving questions in math classes that cause you to reflect on previous knowledge and just common sense to complete.
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Yes, we know all about applying algorithms and heuristics to math class, huh? :) The hard part is definitely knowing which algorithms or heuristics to use in which situation. It definitely takes some high-road transfer in Dr. Peterson's class!
ReplyDeleteI really liked your examples in question 2. I had never thought about classroom behavior skills as low road transfer skills, but I think you're right. That just goes to show how important it is to "train the troops", as we have been told. If kids start doing that kind of stuff automatically, then you won't have to worry about nearly as many discipline problems later on in the year.
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