CD21

Chapters 8, 10, 12

Perception• What is perception? • Process of registering sensory stimuli as

meaningful experience• What is required to perceive?

– Brain – Mind– Body– Emotions

• Does everyone perceive the same thing in the same way?

• How do special needs affect perception?

“Four Corners”

• Visual, auditory, kinesthetic

• People, tools, ideas

• Thinking, feeling, judging

• Introvert, extrovert

• Music, games and puzzles, dancing

• Be with friends, be alone, be outside

• Write in a journal, read a book, watch TV

Match your teaching to their learning?

OR

Match their learning to your teaching?

Defend your position!

Corner talk:

How to Match Teaching and Learning

1. Recognize that children learn in different ways

2. Recognize that one’s teaching style is influenced by their learning style

3. Teach in ways that honor a variety of learning styles

4. Discover and teach to children’s preferred learning style

5. Help children develop competence in their weaker sensory modalities

What do you do, Dear?

1. Recognize that children learn in different ways

What do you do, Dear?

2. Recognize that one’s teaching style is influenced by their learning style

What do you do, Dear?

3. Teach in ways that honor a variety of learning styles

What do you do, Dear?

4. Discover and teach to children’s preferred learning style

What do you do, Dear?

5. Help children develop competence in their weaker sensory modalities

Physical Senses - Traditional

• Visual – to see

• Auditory – to hear

• Tactile – to touch

• Olfactory – to smell

• Gustatory – to taste

Perceptive Senses - Montessori

• Chromatic – to perceive color

• Thermic – to perceive temperature

• Sterognostic – to perceive shape

• Baric – to perceive weight

• Kinesthetic – to perceive movement

ECE Art should be…

#5 Active engagement

#6 Intrinsically motivating

#8 Developmentally appropriate

#9 Legitimate artistic media

#10 Individualized

Paper making is all these things!

BREAK TIME:Rearrange the furniture!

Move the tables!– We need 10 sensory tables placed around the

room– Each sensory table has one chair facing away

from the other tables– 1 sensory table must face the window and the

chair placed so the person can look outside– We need 2 writing tables with 2 chairs each– Put your stuff on a remaining “stuff” table

Sensory Exploration Activity

• Put all your stuff on a stuff table

• Put your note-taking paper and a pen/pencil on one writing table

• Move from table to table and explore the items there using the sense indicated.

• Spend about a minute at each station.

• Periodically go to the writing table and fill in your exploration worksheet

10 Different SensesVisual: Look at I Spy

Auditory: Listen to iPod

Tactile: Touch cloth

Olfactory: Smell spices

Gustatory: Taste jelly beans with blindfold

Chromatic: Order the shades of grey

Thermic: Hot, room temperature, and cold packs

Sterognostic: Touch bag

Baric: Order items in the weight bag

Kinesthetic: Look outside for movement

Visual: Look at “I Spy Christmas”

1. Open the book at random

2. See how many items in the riddle

you can find in the picture

Auditory: Listen to iPod

1. Put on the headphones

2. Click the blue circle 4 times, slowly

3. Listen to “Don’t Worry, Be Happy”

4. Click Menu 4 times, slowly, to the beginning

Tactile: Touch cloth three ways

1. Close your eyes

2. Feel one cloth slowly with your entire hand

3. Feel cloth with your cheek then your arm

4. Select another cloth

5. Repeat touching sequence for several cloths

Olfactory: Smell spices

1. Select 5 spice cups

2. Bring one cup near your chin

3. Slowly and gently inhale to smell the spice

4. Move the cup away from your chin and slowly exhale

5. Repeat for remaining 4 spices

6. Return your spices to their original places

Gustatory: Taste jelly beans with and without smell

1. Pinch your nose closed

2. Select 2 pairs of jelly beans (2 each of the exact same color)

3. Taste one of each color

4. Un-pinch your nose

5. Taste the other two of each color

Chromatic: Order the shades of grey

1. Lay out the grey squares

so you can see them all

2. Put the squares of grey in order,

lightest to darkest

3. Mix up the squares and

put them back in a stack

Thermic: Temperature packs

1. Pick up one gel pack

2. Hold it while counting slowly to 10

3. Repeat with the other two gel packs

Sterognostic: Touch bag

1. Close your eyes

2. Put both hands into the bag

3. Roll each item, one at a time, in your hands

Baric: Order items in the weight bag

1. Take out the items in the bag

and lay them on the table

2. Hold each one and place them

in order of weight, heaviest to lightest

3. Replace the items into the bag

Kinesthetic: Look outside for movement

1. Sit or stand quietly and gaze out the window

2. Count slowly to 25

3. Look out, in as many directions as you can, to find things that are moving

Your Impressions

Thoughts

Ideas

Questions

Comments

Concerns

Plans

Suggestions

Journal PageChromatic: Shades of grey

Thermic: Gel Packs

Sterognostic: Touch bag

Baric: Weight bag

Kinesthetic: Outside movement

Name ________________

Journal PageVisual: I Spy

Auditory: iPod

Tactile: Cloth

Olfactory: Spices

Gustatory: Jelly beans

Name ________________