PYRAMID PRESENTS
UNDERSTANDING STUDENTS’ BASIC
PSYCHOLOGICAL NEEDS
GROUP MEMBERS
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MEETING DAYS
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CONTENT
1.Gantt Card
2.Review of Chapter
2
3.Definition of the
problem
4.Why do we choose
this chapter?
5.Literature review
6.Brainstorming
7.Fishbone Diagram
8.Matrix Diagram
9.Data Analysis
10.Inferences
11.Recommendation
12.References
GANTT CARD
28thSep. 30thSep. 7thOct. 11thOct. 15thOct. 18Oct.
Determinationoftheproblem
Approvaloftheproblem area
Literaturereviews
Identıfyingtargets
DO Collectingdata
CHECK Analysingdata
Solutionsuggestionandconclusions
PPTpresentation
Selfassesnment
SHARE Presentation
PLAN
PLAN
2015
TASKNAM E
EXPECTED OBSERVED
REVIEW OF CHAPTER 2
•Poor attitude towards
school
•Poor home environment
•Lower than average IQ
•Lack of parental support
for school
•Medical or emotional
problems
According to Teachers, Why Children Misb
•Theoretical Perspectives
•Students at risk for school
failure
•The issues of order, caring,
and power
Learning Goals
•Personal Needs Theories
•Human Development
Theory
•Social Factors Theory
Theoretical Perspectives
Several key concepts about students’
psychological needs (that influence their
behavior and success)
Personal Needs Theories
Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of
Needs
Personal Needs Theories
Brendtro Et
Al
(1990)
Coppersmit
h
(1967)
Kohn
(1993)
Glassen
(1990)
Belonging
Mastery
Independen
ce
Generosity
Significance
Competenc
e
Power
Collaboratio
n
Content
Choice
Virtue
Love
Fun
Power/Freed
om
Survival
Human Development Theory
Stages of Psychosocial
Development
Trust
Mistru
st
vs
Autono
my
Shame
vs
Initiavti
ve
Guilt
vs
Industr
y
Inferior
tiy
vs
Role
Confusion
Identity
vs
Intimac
y
Isolatio
n
vs
Generati
vity
Stagnatio
n
vs
Integrit
y
Despair
vs
Social Factors Theory
•Responsibility - freedom
•Achievement - support
•Loyalty - commitment
Three basic contracts between adults
and children
(David Elkind)
Students at Risk for School Failure
1. Students’ cultural background(low
income, ethnicity)
2. Inconsistent instructional approach
3. Limited proficiency of education
language
4. Special needs (disability)
5. Limited support
6. Limited time and energy for school
The Issues of Order, Caring, and Power
•How the order is established
may be the most important
factor affecting student
behavior in schools.
•Control and caring are not
opposing terms; but the
form of control is
transformed by the presence
of caring (Bowers and
DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM
Students exhibit negative
attitudes towards the
topics about school. It
results in their academic
failure.
WHY DO WE CHOOSE THIS CHAPTER?
Students’ misbehaviours
represent cue about their
psychological needs.
Therefore, understanding
their basic needs is the
center of classroom
management.
1st Author: Susan Stern.
1st Book: Understanding Our Four Basic
Needs Will Help Ourselves and Our
Children.
2nd Author: Richard Sagor
2nd Book: Motivating Students and
Teachers in an Era of Standards.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Motivating Students and Teachers
According to Dr. Glasser:
• When children choose to misbehave
 They are not doing so just to
disobey you.
 They are choosing their behavior
to meet a need.
• If regular doses of feeling CBUPs
students will look to school with
optimism.
 Compete
nce
 Belongin
g
s
 Potency
 Optimism
Belonging
Potency
Competence
Usefulness
Optimism
The Basic Need to Feel Competent
• Credible feedbacks on their
skillfulness
• Direct relationship among
perseverance, hard work
and success
• Authentic ways to feel
competent
• Strategy: portfolio of
• Relation between coach
and athletes
• Concrete performance 
motivation
• Music, art, drama,
journalism
• Am I truly making any
difference?
TEACHERSSTUDENTS
The Basic Need to Feel Belonging
• Comfort and acceptance
• Rejected from classmates
• Some experiences feels out
of place
• Labelling
• Minorities , home culture
isn’t valued
• Making productive use of
• The term of «Zümre»
• High performance team
and coworkers
• Helping colleagues about
stress, burnout and
depression
TEACHERSSTUDENTS
The Basic Need to Feel Useful
• Increasing self-esteem
• Internalizing a sense of
usefulness
• Music teams, everyone is
worthy
• Less than students
• Challenges of educating
today’s youth
• Participation in
administration
• Everyone condemn anyone
TEACHERSSTUDENTS
The Basic Need to Feel Potency
• Glasser linked with need for
power
• Having an influence over
ultimate success
• Chain effect
• Drugs and criminal activity
• The need to feel
usefulness
• “Lets be realistic there is
only few things teacher
can do”
• Change by administration
and reforms
• Creative and collective
TEACHERSSTUDENTS
Optimism as a Result
• CBUP are not independent
• Satisfying basic needs to
build optimism
• Personal vision that
students hold regarding
their future
• The best predictor of the
future is the past
• Education is political game
• Many reasons for
insecurity
• Teachers also need to
believe
• Capacity to chance
students’ lives
• Credible evidence that
TEACHERSSTUDENTS
BRAINSTORMING
Unfairness
Discipline
Environment
Parent Pressure
Observation
Labelling
Peer Relation
Communication
Failure
Trust
Economic Status
FISHBONE
Home
School Setting
Environment
Political Issues
Curriculum
Education System
Students’ Background
Gender
Family
Culture & Ethnicity
Teacher
Attitude
Method
Why do students
have academic
failure and
misbehaviour?
MATRIX
Environment Education
System
Teacher Student
Şeym
a
4 4 6 6
Salih 7 6 4 4
Gülsü
m
4 5 6 7
Hatice 5 5 6 7
Seren 5 4 7 6
DATA ANALYSIS
Survey
10 Students10 Teachers
20 People
2 State Primary
Schools in
Istanbul
Question 1 for Teachers
In your opinion, what basic psychological needs of
students are more important? (select 3 needs)
Needs of love
Need of
success
Peer
relationships
Feel in secure Self-esteem
Percentage 33% 20% 33% 10% 3.33%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
Question 2 for Teachers
According to your opinions, which relationship should
be observed to diagnose the psychological needs of
students?
Student-student
relationship
Student-teacher
relationship
Student-family
relationship
Teacher-family
relationship
Percentage 20% 60% 20% 0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Question 3 for Teachers
With taking into consideration of your pupilage, do
you find differences between your needs in the past
and your students’ needs in now?
60%
40%
Yes No
Question 4 for Teachers
Do you use any materials or methods to affect your
students’ learning and behaviors positively?
Giving small
presents to
students
Encourage
students to
gain self-
esteem
Doing
activities to
make
students
more active
learners
Saying
promotive
sentences
toward
students
Giving
students
feedback in a
constructive
way
Percentage 30% 20% 20% 20% 10%
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
Question 5 for Teachers
What does it mean "equality in education" for you?
Some answers:
 Using materials equally for all students
 Equality means to get education in the same
physical setting standards
 Giving proper opportunities to who needs them
instead of giving the same opportunities to every
student.
 Giving scholars to students from low income family
Question 6 for Students
Have you ever felt be not understood by others?
Never Sometimes Often Always
Percentage 0% 80% 20% 0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
Question 7 for Students
When a class activity or a homework is done, in which
study method do you think you understand better,
working alone or working with friends?
Working alone Working with friends Both of them
Percentage 40% 60% 0%
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Question 8 for Students
Have you ever faced difficulties in your education life
because of your cultural identity?
20%
80%
Yes No
Question 9 for Students
During all school life, have you ever get any bad
experience?
80%
20%
Yes No
Question 10 for Students
If you were a teacher, how do you discipline the class?
Some answers:
 I use punishments
and rewards
 To prepare class rules
all together
 I help students to
solve their problems
Inferences From Survey
• The big emphasis on
Love
Student-teacher relation
• Lack of awareness about change in needs
• Lack of feedback mechanism
• Few problem about cultural identity
• High rate of negative situation in school
RECOMMENDATIONS
• Make students have their own strategies
for setting goals
• Supportive, engaging, safe and ordered
environments
• Diversified instruction (active
participation, learning styles are
preferred by students)
• Involve students in learning social roles
How to Find Out Students’ Personal Needs
• Observe students via
theoretical perspectives
(know what they need)
• Ask them what they need
• Use systematic observation
(during activities and at
various times)
REFERENCES
• Jones, V. F. & Jones, L. S. (2007). Comprehensive Classroom
Management: Creating communities of support and solving
problems, 8th edition. Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon.
• Stern, S. (2010, April). Understanding Our Four Basic Needs Will
Help Ourselves and Our Children.
• Imece Circles training by Dr. Hayal Köksal
• Richard S. (2003) Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of
Standards (Chapter 1. Identifying Our Basic Psychological Needs).
Retrieved from
http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/103009/chapters/Identifyin
g-Our-Basic-Psychological-Needs.aspx
• Sagor R.(2003).Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of
Standards. Identifying Our Basic Psychological Needs, Association
for Supervision & Curriculum Development,(pp 24-32).
THANKS
Special Thanks to…
Hayal Köksal
BEHIND THE SCENES
THE END
ASSESSMENT
I’M IN THE
MOOD TO
MISBEHAVE!
WHO’S WITH
ME?

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    CONTENT 1.Gantt Card 2.Review ofChapter 2 3.Definition of the problem 4.Why do we choose this chapter? 5.Literature review 6.Brainstorming 7.Fishbone Diagram 8.Matrix Diagram 9.Data Analysis 10.Inferences 11.Recommendation 12.References
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    GANTT CARD 28thSep. 30thSep.7thOct. 11thOct. 15thOct. 18Oct. Determinationoftheproblem Approvaloftheproblem area Literaturereviews Identıfyingtargets DO Collectingdata CHECK Analysingdata Solutionsuggestionandconclusions PPTpresentation Selfassesnment SHARE Presentation PLAN PLAN 2015 TASKNAM E EXPECTED OBSERVED
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    •Poor attitude towards school •Poorhome environment •Lower than average IQ •Lack of parental support for school •Medical or emotional problems According to Teachers, Why Children Misb
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    •Theoretical Perspectives •Students atrisk for school failure •The issues of order, caring, and power Learning Goals
  • 10.
    •Personal Needs Theories •HumanDevelopment Theory •Social Factors Theory Theoretical Perspectives Several key concepts about students’ psychological needs (that influence their behavior and success)
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    Personal Needs Theories AbrahamMaslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
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    Personal Needs Theories BrendtroEt Al (1990) Coppersmit h (1967) Kohn (1993) Glassen (1990) Belonging Mastery Independen ce Generosity Significance Competenc e Power Collaboratio n Content Choice Virtue Love Fun Power/Freed om Survival
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    Human Development Theory Stagesof Psychosocial Development Trust Mistru st vs Autono my Shame vs Initiavti ve Guilt vs Industr y Inferior tiy vs Role Confusion Identity vs Intimac y Isolatio n vs Generati vity Stagnatio n vs Integrit y Despair vs
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    Social Factors Theory •Responsibility- freedom •Achievement - support •Loyalty - commitment Three basic contracts between adults and children (David Elkind)
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    Students at Riskfor School Failure 1. Students’ cultural background(low income, ethnicity) 2. Inconsistent instructional approach 3. Limited proficiency of education language 4. Special needs (disability) 5. Limited support 6. Limited time and energy for school
  • 16.
    The Issues ofOrder, Caring, and Power •How the order is established may be the most important factor affecting student behavior in schools. •Control and caring are not opposing terms; but the form of control is transformed by the presence of caring (Bowers and
  • 17.
    DEFINITION OF THEPROBLEM Students exhibit negative attitudes towards the topics about school. It results in their academic failure.
  • 18.
    WHY DO WECHOOSE THIS CHAPTER? Students’ misbehaviours represent cue about their psychological needs. Therefore, understanding their basic needs is the center of classroom management.
  • 19.
    1st Author: SusanStern. 1st Book: Understanding Our Four Basic Needs Will Help Ourselves and Our Children. 2nd Author: Richard Sagor 2nd Book: Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards. LITERATURE REVIEW
  • 20.
    Motivating Students andTeachers According to Dr. Glasser: • When children choose to misbehave  They are not doing so just to disobey you.  They are choosing their behavior to meet a need. • If regular doses of feeling CBUPs students will look to school with optimism.  Compete nce  Belongin g s  Potency  Optimism Belonging Potency Competence Usefulness Optimism
  • 21.
    The Basic Needto Feel Competent • Credible feedbacks on their skillfulness • Direct relationship among perseverance, hard work and success • Authentic ways to feel competent • Strategy: portfolio of • Relation between coach and athletes • Concrete performance  motivation • Music, art, drama, journalism • Am I truly making any difference? TEACHERSSTUDENTS
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    The Basic Needto Feel Belonging • Comfort and acceptance • Rejected from classmates • Some experiences feels out of place • Labelling • Minorities , home culture isn’t valued • Making productive use of • The term of «Zümre» • High performance team and coworkers • Helping colleagues about stress, burnout and depression TEACHERSSTUDENTS
  • 23.
    The Basic Needto Feel Useful • Increasing self-esteem • Internalizing a sense of usefulness • Music teams, everyone is worthy • Less than students • Challenges of educating today’s youth • Participation in administration • Everyone condemn anyone TEACHERSSTUDENTS
  • 24.
    The Basic Needto Feel Potency • Glasser linked with need for power • Having an influence over ultimate success • Chain effect • Drugs and criminal activity • The need to feel usefulness • “Lets be realistic there is only few things teacher can do” • Change by administration and reforms • Creative and collective TEACHERSSTUDENTS
  • 25.
    Optimism as aResult • CBUP are not independent • Satisfying basic needs to build optimism • Personal vision that students hold regarding their future • The best predictor of the future is the past • Education is political game • Many reasons for insecurity • Teachers also need to believe • Capacity to chance students’ lives • Credible evidence that TEACHERSSTUDENTS
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    FISHBONE Home School Setting Environment Political Issues Curriculum EducationSystem Students’ Background Gender Family Culture & Ethnicity Teacher Attitude Method Why do students have academic failure and misbehaviour?
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    MATRIX Environment Education System Teacher Student Şeym a 44 6 6 Salih 7 6 4 4 Gülsü m 4 5 6 7 Hatice 5 5 6 7 Seren 5 4 7 6
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    Survey 10 Students10 Teachers 20People 2 State Primary Schools in Istanbul
  • 31.
    Question 1 forTeachers In your opinion, what basic psychological needs of students are more important? (select 3 needs) Needs of love Need of success Peer relationships Feel in secure Self-esteem Percentage 33% 20% 33% 10% 3.33% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
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    Question 2 forTeachers According to your opinions, which relationship should be observed to diagnose the psychological needs of students? Student-student relationship Student-teacher relationship Student-family relationship Teacher-family relationship Percentage 20% 60% 20% 0% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
  • 33.
    Question 3 forTeachers With taking into consideration of your pupilage, do you find differences between your needs in the past and your students’ needs in now? 60% 40% Yes No
  • 34.
    Question 4 forTeachers Do you use any materials or methods to affect your students’ learning and behaviors positively? Giving small presents to students Encourage students to gain self- esteem Doing activities to make students more active learners Saying promotive sentences toward students Giving students feedback in a constructive way Percentage 30% 20% 20% 20% 10% 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
  • 35.
    Question 5 forTeachers What does it mean "equality in education" for you? Some answers:  Using materials equally for all students  Equality means to get education in the same physical setting standards  Giving proper opportunities to who needs them instead of giving the same opportunities to every student.  Giving scholars to students from low income family
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    Question 6 forStudents Have you ever felt be not understood by others? Never Sometimes Often Always Percentage 0% 80% 20% 0% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%
  • 37.
    Question 7 forStudents When a class activity or a homework is done, in which study method do you think you understand better, working alone or working with friends? Working alone Working with friends Both of them Percentage 40% 60% 0% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
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    Question 8 forStudents Have you ever faced difficulties in your education life because of your cultural identity? 20% 80% Yes No
  • 39.
    Question 9 forStudents During all school life, have you ever get any bad experience? 80% 20% Yes No
  • 40.
    Question 10 forStudents If you were a teacher, how do you discipline the class? Some answers:  I use punishments and rewards  To prepare class rules all together  I help students to solve their problems
  • 41.
    Inferences From Survey •The big emphasis on Love Student-teacher relation • Lack of awareness about change in needs • Lack of feedback mechanism • Few problem about cultural identity • High rate of negative situation in school
  • 42.
    RECOMMENDATIONS • Make studentshave their own strategies for setting goals • Supportive, engaging, safe and ordered environments • Diversified instruction (active participation, learning styles are preferred by students) • Involve students in learning social roles
  • 43.
    How to FindOut Students’ Personal Needs • Observe students via theoretical perspectives (know what they need) • Ask them what they need • Use systematic observation (during activities and at various times)
  • 44.
    REFERENCES • Jones, V.F. & Jones, L. S. (2007). Comprehensive Classroom Management: Creating communities of support and solving problems, 8th edition. Boston: Pearson/Allyn & Bacon. • Stern, S. (2010, April). Understanding Our Four Basic Needs Will Help Ourselves and Our Children. • Imece Circles training by Dr. Hayal Köksal • Richard S. (2003) Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards (Chapter 1. Identifying Our Basic Psychological Needs). Retrieved from http://www.ascd.org/publications/books/103009/chapters/Identifyin g-Our-Basic-Psychological-Needs.aspx • Sagor R.(2003).Motivating Students and Teachers in an Era of Standards. Identifying Our Basic Psychological Needs, Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development,(pp 24-32).
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    ASSESSMENT I’M IN THE MOODTO MISBEHAVE! WHO’S WITH ME?