1. Felicia McCollum

2. The capacity to acquire and
apply knowledge, especially
toward a purposeful goal

3.  Ways To Support In The Classroom: Teachers should
provide an environment for students to feel safe when
they express and analyze their own opinions.
Students must also learn to respect the opinions of
others. Teachers must present various opinions and
ideas into the classroom setting. This helps educate
students about the different lifestyles and cultures
that exist.
 Classroom Example: Debate: Students get the chance
to voice and support their opinion on a current event.
Students pick a side and then debate their reasoning for
feeling a certain way about a topic. Teacher serves as the
mediator.

4.  Ways To Support In The Classroom: Teachers help
students develop skills to think before they act, this helps
keep order in the classroom. Students are taught to wait
their turn, raise their hands to be called on, and think before
beginning a project or task. Teachers help students develop
control over the impulsive behavior of shouting out in class.
 Classroom Example: Create classroom procedure:
Students must raise their hands before speaking or getting
out of their seats. This information will presented to the
students and rehearsed from day one.

5.  Ways To Support In Classroom: Students often give up
in despair when the answer to a problem is not immediately
known. They often say, "I can’t do this," "It’s too hard,"
or, they write down any answer to get the task over with as
quickly as possible. They don’t take the time to analyze the
problem, to develop a system of problem attack. Teachers
must teach our students how to identify resources when
they can’t figure something out on their own. We must
teach students to be patient and work through problems.
 Classroom Example: Students will be given
incentives for assignments and completing projects.
Students will get free time, internet passes, display work on
walls, extra credit points on test.

6.  Ways To Support In The Classroom: All students
are encouraged to use creativity in the classroom. All
students must be encouraged to learn. Student’s
should be discouraged from saying “I can’t.” Teachers
must offer constructive criticism in a way that the
student understands the criticism is not a criticism
of self. Students need to learn how to value
feedback. Students must learn to value their
intuition and realize they are capable of learning
anything they put their mind to.
 Classroom Example: Students are allowed to
assess their contribution and their peers
contribution in a group project. Students must learn
to give and accept constructive criticism. Give
writing assignments that let the student express
their personality and values. Use open ended
questions where there is no right or wrong answer.

7.  Ways To Support In The Classroom: teachers give
students the opportunity to venture forth and
explore ideas beyond their normal comfort zone.
Teachers must create an environment where
students feel safe to think “outside the box.”
teachers use activities such as brainstorming
strategies, cooperative learning, and project-based
learning.
 Classroom Example: Team Jigsaw: Assign each student
in a team one fourth of a page to read from any text
(for example, a social studies text). Each student
completes his or her assignment and then teaches
the others or helps to put together a team product by
contributing a piece of the puzzle.

8.  Ways To Support In The Classroom: Teachers give
students the opportunity to apply school-learned
knowledge to real-life situations. Students are
given the opportunity to practice drawing on past
knowledge and applying that knowledge to new
situations. Teachers use problem
recognition, problem solving, and project-based
learning.
 Classroom Example: Project-based learning in
personal finance class, for example; students
working on a personal budget and implementing
the budget in their everyday lifestyle.

9.  Ways To Support In The Classroom: Humor
liberates creativity and provides high-level
thinking skills. Anticipation, novel
relationships, and visual imagery are formed.
 Classroom Example: students are asked to
recreate songs, jokes, cartoon, and limericks
about a subject that is being studied in the
classroom. These exercises are used for
promoting creativity as well as checking the
student’s comprehension of the concept being
taught.

10.  Kellough, R. D., & Kellough, N. G. (2011). Secondary
School Teaching A Guide To Methods And Resources
(4th ed.). Retrieved from The University of Phoenix
eBook Collection