The document discusses characteristics of intelligent behavior that teachers should model, teach, and observe in students. It provides examples of these characteristics, such as problem recognition, problem solving, project-based learning, using humor, empathizing with others, and continuous learning. It also provides suggestions for how teachers can support these characteristics in their classrooms, including incorporating projects, think tanks, encouraging feedback, and embracing new ideas.

1. April Dailey
MED/560
April 8, 2013

2.  Intelligent behavior is a characteristic that all
teachers should model, teach, and observe
developing in students.

3. • Students should always be drawing on past knowledge
and applying it to new situations.
• Teachers should be preparing students by using real
world applications.
• Students should work hard to apply school-learned
knowledge to real-life situations.
• Students should develop necessary skills on how to use
past knowledge in order to apply it to new situations.
• Students need to practice problem recognition, problem
solving, and project-based learning in order to have a
greater understanding of the content.

4. • Example of characteristic:
– problem recognition, problem solving, and
project-based learning.
• How to support this characteristic in your
classroom:
– Project-based learning in all subject areas.
- Problem solving in math.

5. • Humor provides positive effects for the brain.
• Releases creativity and provides high-level
thinking skills.
• Provides anticipation and visual imagery.
• Initially, young children and immature adolescents
find humor in all the wrong things such as ethnic
or sacrilegious riddles.
• Later, creative young people are very successful on
finding humor during the problem solving process.

6. • Example of characteristic:
– Using jokes or riddles in content area.
– Reading comical stories that relate to content.
– Making up math word problems that involve
something of interest to the students.
• How to support this characteristic in your classroom:
– Teachers should choose books that that are
entertaining for students.
– Use different types of sports in the wording of math
word problems.
– Use jokes for editing punctuation when teaching
students sentence structure.

7. • Teachers should encourage all students to learn.
• Students should be discouraged from saying “I
can’t”
• Students must be encouraged to demonstrate
intrinsic motivation.
• Teachers should offer constructive criticism in a
way that encourages student growth (and doesn’t
belittle the student).
• Students must learn to appreciate valuable
feedback.
• Students must learn to value their intuition and
have the mind set that they can learn if they apply
themselves.

8. • Example of characteristic:
– Incorporate assignments in the classroom that values self
expression.
– Always use open ended questions where all answers are
valued and to be able to achieve higher-order thinking skills.
– Always use encouraging remarks to build student confidence.
• How to support this characteristic in your classroom:
– Assign writing assignments that allow the student to express
– Always incorporate open ended questions where there is no
wrong answer to promote student involvement.
– When a student is wrong, instead of saying “no” be sure to
make mention of something they said that was right or thank
them for trying to attempt to answer the question.

9. • Psychologists believe that listening to others,
empathizing others, and understanding points of view
is one of the highest forms of intelligent behavior that
exist.
• Empathic behavior is nearly the exact opposite of
egoism (this is an important skill for dealing with
conflict resolution).
• People from various walks of life use listening and
understanding skills in class meetings, brainstorming
sessions, think tanks, town meetings, advisory councils,
board meetings, and legislative bodies.
• Students can share, think, explore ideas, and broadened
their perspectives ,simply by listening to the many great
ideas and reactions of others.

10. • Example of characteristic:
– Using think tanks in the classroom.
– Incorporating class meetings into the classroom .
– Brainstorming sessions set-up in the classroom to
promote learning.
• How to support this characteristic in your classroom:
– Using think tanks for Science for students to refer back
to throughout lesson and have a better understanding
of the concept.
– Teachers can conduct class meetings for their students
in order to share opinions and ideas with one another.
– Teachers should always remind their students how
listening with understanding and empathy will be
valued in the future.

11. • Often times students will develop impulse
control, in which they think before acting.
• Impulsive behavior does have a tendency to worsen
a conflict.
• Impulsive behavior can inhibit a student ability to
effectively problem solve.
• Teachers can work with students to teach them
how to think before they shout out an answer.
Students can also learn how to wait their turn, raise
their hands until they are called upon, and to think
the task out completely before beginning.
• Research clearly states that an individual emotional
intelligence is a significant prediction of their
success in the workplace.

12. • Example of characteristic:
– Students waiting in line for their turn.
– Students raising their hands in order to be called upon.
– Students taking the necessary time to think before answering.
– Students not acting out when blamed for something or when they get upset.
• How to support this characteristic in your classroom:
– Teachers should get in the routine where they expect students to raise their
hands before they are allowed to answer a question.
– Teachers should not encourage shouting out to take place in the classroom.
– Teachers should always encourage positive reactions amongst their students
(for example, if a student was to accuse another student of something they
did and the student doesn’t act out, then the teacher should compliment that
student for thinking before acting out)
– Teachers should be very mindful and show disapproval when a student
continues to act out and ignore using the proper thinking skills.

13. • Be mindful that intelligent people are always
in a continuous learning mode.
• Individuals need to be taking in new
information each day.
• Individuals should be really to accept new
ideas from others when offered.
• Always be eager to learn and find new ways
to do things.

14. • Example of characteristic:
– Students need to be encouraged to take in other student
ideas.
– Students should work hard to discover new ideas on their
own.
– Students should not be afraid to try something new.
• How to support this characteristic in your classroom:
– Encourage students to try out ideas that come from their
classmates.
– Teachers should attend necessary workshops and
incorporate the skills learned in their classroom.
– Teachers should always be willing to try new techniques
and strategies in their classroom to promote learning.

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