Lecture 13 Flashcards
Special education clusters
Cluster 1: Blind or partially sighted
Cluster 2: Kids with hearing or language problems
Cluster 3: Kids with physical and mental handicaps
Cluster 4: Kids with psychiatric problems and severe behavior problems
Projective test
Letting kids associate freely from a picture to test the feelings
Disharmonic profile
A kid has different levels of intelligence on the subtests
Piaget influence on todays school system
Discovery learning
Pure Piagetian discovery learning without any feedback had few benefits for learning
Direct instruction is more effective
Guided discovery
Effects of peer interaction
Overcoming egocentrism
Sometimes sociocognitive conflict
Drawbacks to working in pairs
- More advanced children may regress
- One child may dominate, often with boys
- Popular peers have more influence
- Positive collaboration needs to be actively influenced
What makes effective scaffolding
- First little help and if failure then more help, if child successful then decrease help
- Adult-child interactions are dynamic with the child actively playing a role in its learning process
- Fading: gradual withdrawal of the teacher
- Transfer of responsibility from teacher to learner
3 basic needs for children when learning
- Competence
- Autonomy
- Relatedness
2 dimensions attribution style
- Stable vs unstable (changeable vs unchangeable)
2. Internal vs external
Types of bullying
- Verbal
- Relational (ignoring, excluding)
- Material
- Physical
- Cyber
Effects of being bullied
- Anxiety and depression
- Physical and psychosomatic symptoms
- Suicidal thoughts
- Low self-esteem
- Absence from school
Protective factors bullying
- Warm family
- Friend(s)
- Limited period
Characteristics of the bully
- Authoritarian
- Lack of clear rules
- Conflict in family
- Children with ADHD
- Aggressive interpretation and response style
- Expectation of positive results from bullying
Characteristics of the victim
- Anxious or withdrawn
- Anxious, passive reaction pattern
- Reactive aggression, emotional reaction pattern
- Conflict in the family
- Overprotective families
- Being different
Interventions to reduce bullying
- Reactive strategies
- Monitoring unstructured situations
- Large-scale school-based interventions