Influences from this class (pre-thinking)

 

Category #1 : Roles of Teachers

1. Facilitators of interconnected group of humans
2. Transform how students think by encouraging reflective thinking and creative development
3. Validate the needs of students
•  psychological needs
• aesthetic needs - modes of learning
• intellectual needs
• social needs
4.  Be problem finders

(sub) Category #2: My needs as a teacher

1. I need to physically move as I teach
2. I need to do research about questioning techniques so I can foster students curousity
3. I need to have a personal connection with my students, I think I am empathetic by nature, and it helps to understand them
4. To assess my needs as a teacher, because this is all I have!

(sub) Category #3: Needs of Students

1. Validate the way they learn
2. Have ownership over their learning
3. Toolbox of thinking skills
4. Resilience that will help them in multiple climates, and to take risks
5. Appropriate environment to meet psychological needs

(sub) Category #4 Nature of Creativity
1. Depends on cognitive ingredients, genetic or learned
2. Process can be internally or externally motivated; base level of technical/conceptual understanding needed for elaboration to occur
3. Needs a conducive environment - one that is psychologically safe

Relationships between the categories

1.  Emphasis on process
2.  Emphasis on relationship
3.  Emphasis on motivation
4.  Importance of unseen forces
5. Importance of thinking skills, emphasis on creative and problem solving behaviors

Relationships between Influences from this class and Influences from my past

1.  Motivation
2.  Development
3.  Creative Behaviors
4.  Needs
5.  Sense of causality - Relationships
6.  Process

What have I learned about influences from this class?

1. My role as a teacher depends on being truthful about my needs and the needs of the students
2. My motivations and students' motivations are connected to basic human needs that we all have
3. Creativity and problem solving are basic human needs
4. Conditions for self-actualization can be facilitated by a teacher - self-actualization depends on the development of awareness of personal needs and strategies to meet those needs
5. Deeper understanding of Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs

"What motivates behavior? According to humanist psychologist Abraham Maslow, our actions are motivated in order achieve certain needs. "
source : http://psychology.about.com/od/theoriesofpersonality/a/hierarchyneeds.htm