Monday, June 25, 2007
Introduction
Problem solving is a skill that many students and professionals use daily. Problem solving skills are used to find multiple solutions to a wide variety of problems: the shortest route to a vacation destination, the location of lost car keys, or even as simple as the best gift to buy. Students use problem solving strategies to resolve conflicts, find solutions to math problems, understand reading material, and complete science experiments. Educators need to supply their students with well modeled, practiced, and efficient problem solving strategies to develop schemas for use in the classroom and in their outside environments.
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Excellent development of problem solving topic from different points of view and with specific application to classroom setting.
Good reflections also and many good examples that your colleagues can use.
Congratulations on a work well done!
Very interesting information! You mentioned "modeling" a couple of times in your review. I think this is often an underrated part of teaching. Students need to see examples (good and bad, sometimes) to understand what is and is not acceptable--both in assignments and in behavior. Modeling includes being a role model, and talking and teaching about metacognition, as well as the traditional types of problem/homework examples. I also thought that the comment about aggression being the method used to solve problems by children with low-information processing skills was important. This is something I always noticed in my classroom, too. I can see that the central executive plays a role in this.
JLM
Very nice article on conflict resolution. I need to use more conflict resolution in order to form proper schemas and scripts so that the students realize that fighting or aggressive behavior limits thier cognitive skills as well as behavioral skills in the community
Rich
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