Chapter 3 (Continued)

Facilitates learners’ positive sense of self, value, and membership

Positive impact on learning

Increased performance

Determines significance of the world through an affective filter

Interpreting/creating our own reality

Prioritize actions

what we do and learn

Inhibits emotional responses

stressful and/or fearful situations

Understanding emotions can impact student learning

Located at the center of brain

Located at the front of the brain

Educators can plan, execute, and facilitate all kinds of purposeful variables in the environment.

Vary by each individual's characteristics

Displayed in various ways in the classroom.

Executive functioning

Recognize patterns

Organize

Plan

Self-regulate

Self-assessment

Decision-making

Strategic action

Identify goal

Design plan

Initiate plan

Self-monitor

Reflect - correct/adjust

located in the back of the brain

recognition systems intensely interconnected

Systematic variability is anticipated from the outset.

The environment is comprised of predictable patterns.

Facilitate recognition of higher-order information

Varies from person to person

higher-order information

Background

Experience

Context

Patterns

What the learner sees, hears, smells, tastes, and touches

individual aspects of patterns, such as their color, shape, orientation, or motion are processed by separate parts of recognition networks.

Recent research on learner characteristics

Learners are unique

Characteristics (brains and genes) constantly shift due to the interaction between the individual and their environment

Educators can design and facilitate an effective learning environment

enhance learner outcomes

Variability is a tool not a liability

Variability

Combination of strengths and challenges that a learner is made up of.

Former beliefs of learner characteristics

Learners were limited to their biological composition (brains and genes)

labeled - intelligent, average, dull

Education could improve learner abilities but not brain and genes

Some of these misconceptions are still present today

Variability is a liability