Prompt #6: Theory X and Theory Y (Meza)

Review the research of Meza on Theory X and Y. 

Describe a teacher from your experience whom you believe to have operated primarily from a Theory X perspective.

Describe one whom you believe to have operated primarily from a Theory Y perspective. 

Prompt #5: Emotional Intelligence (Franklin)

Review the research of Franklin on Emotional Intelligence.

What learning experience in your past most lends credence to the concepts described by this research?

Prompt #4: Noetic Science (Worley)

Review the research of Worley on Noetic Science.

How much or how little of Noetic Science do you “buy”?  Provide rationale for your position.

Prompt #3: Habits of Mind (Mendez)

Review the research of Mendez on Habits of Mind. 

Of the 16 Habits of Mind he references, list the five you consider personal strengths and the five that you would consider as areas most in need of improvement (personally).

Prompt #2: Brian Cosby Methodology Deconstruction

Watch this TED talk by Brian Cosby:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66mrAzz7nLw

From the Walkthrough Feedback document I shared with you previously, identify the Marzano 9 strategies you can see in Cosby’s work with his students. 

Provide specific elements/activities/tasks he used that triggered your response.  (In other words, if you believe he used Similarities and Differences, tell us what you saw that made you believe that.)

Prompt #1:Invocation

Assume you will be responsible for raising children at some point in time, if you haven’t already (either by birth or adoption). When they reach that age where they’re “moving out” of your home, what spiritual understanding(s) would you most want them to take with them from their years of living with you?