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The Battalion
Thursday, July 15,1993
Educator urges better reasoning skills
By STEPHANIE MARTIN
77ie Battalion
I n an effort to teach adminis
trators how to boost the quali
ty of education in their
schools. Dr. lies Lee Hannel,
counselor and educational con
sultant for the Malka Hoffman
Institute for Cognitive Modifia
bility in Phoenix, spoke on Tues
day about the relationship be
tween abstract reasoning skills
and academic achievement at the
1993 Principals' Academy at
Texas A&M University.
Hannel said American chil
dren are excellent at playing
dumb in order to evade work.
"American children are the
laziest children in the industrial
ized world," he said.
Teachers allow their students
to be mentally lazy by giving
them the answers rather than
forcing them to draw conclu
sions through cognition, or "the
ability to use abstract reasoning
to solve higher learning prob
lems," he said.
In Europe, methods in cogni
tive thinking are more advanced.
Hannel said that in Israel, where
student performance is very
high, the children do 90 percent
of the thinking. Furthermore, Is
raeli teachers must go through
four years of training in thinking
skills, he said.
"Current teacher practice will
make the rich richer and the poor
poorer," Hannel said. Low
scores on the TASS (Texas As
sessment of Academic Skills), a
standardized achievement test
that measures minimum academ
ic skills, point to a deficiency in
the cognitive ability of many stu
dents in the lower middle class
and poor districts, whose scores
are, in general, drastically lower
than those of their upper middle
class peers.
Hannel said that abstract rea
soning is an acquired skill, and
implied that opportunities to
learn cognition are more accessi
ble to wealthier students.
"You cannot do somebody's
work for them and make them
smart," Hannel said. In order for
test scores to improve, teachers
and administrators must change
their approach.
Hannel said the transition in
instruction must change from
"didactic to Socratic." Instead of
bombarding students with facts,
teachers should question me
thodically until the facts are de
rived through the students' own
reasoning. In this way, the
teacher's role shifts from "giver
of information to facilitator of in
formation." Thus, the student
learns to rely on her or his own
capabilities rather than those of
the instructor, he said.
Hannel concluded his speech
with a reminder that the jobs of
many principals in suffering
school districts may hinge on
whether or not test scores rise.
He urged principles to take
greater responsibility in their
roles as administrators, and to
become trained in thinking skills
so that they can be informed de
cision makers.
Hannel's speech was part of
The Principal's Academy, which
began on Sunday and ends Fri
day. The program is conducted
by the Texas A&M Principals'
Center.
"The Principals' Center's mis
sion is to enhance school princi-
palship throughout Texas," said
Dr. David Hinojosa, the director.
Hinojosa, along with Dr. David
Earlenson, developed the center in
1983 to specialize four major areas
of concern: preparation of princi
ples, research of principles, staff
development and networking.
During the conference the ad
ministrators spend the majority
of their time working in small
groups on specific topics that
apply to their individual con
cerns. Costs are alleviated for
some principals by scholarships
from The Kellogg Foundation,
and Pepsi-Cola.
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Dr. lies Lee Nahhel, counselor and educational consultant for the
Malka Hoffman Institute for Cognitive Modifiability in Phoenix, talked
to an audience of Texas principals Tuesday morning in Rudder about
teaching students to think.
Howard gets death penalty for
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
AUSTIN — A Houston man convicted of
gunning down a state trooper was sentenced
to death Wednesday after jurors rebuffed a
claim that he was inflamed by hard-driving,
anti-police rap music.
The eight-man, four-woman jury had deliber
ated since Friday before recommending that
Ronald Ray Howard, 19, die by lethal injection.
State District Judge Whayland Kilgore, who
twice urged jurors to keep working when they
said they were deadlocked, then ordered the
death sentence for Howard.
Howard showed no emotion as the verdict
was read. But he cried when his mother and
grandmother embraced him.
The same jury took only 40 minutes on
June 8 to convict Howard in the April 1992
slaying of Department of Public Safety
Trooper Bill Davidson.
The trooper had stopped Howard, who was
driving a stolen vehicle, near Victoria because
of a missing headlight.
Howard, an admitted car thief and crack co
caine dealer, confessed on numerous occasions
to shooting Davidson in the neck at close
range with a 9-mm handgun.
Defense attorney Allen Tanner argued that
Howard's fascination with anti-cop "gangsta
rap'' music and his childhood in the oppres
sive inner-city were factors in the killing.
Tanner said he plans to appeal.
Jurors had been divided until Wednesday
on how to punish Howard. They wrote two
notes to the judge saying they were "hopeless
ly deadlocked" 10-2 in favor of the death
penalty. All jurors had to agree in order to is
sue a death sentence.
But the two dissenters apparently decided
to join the other jurors after Kilgore told them
not to "hesitate to reexamine your own views
and to change your opinion if you decide you
are wrong."
One of the two holdout jurors, who de
clined to give his name, said he changed his
mind Tuesday night.
"There was no coercion at all," he said of
the deliberations. "Music can affect people
killing trooper
very strongly I believe, but in the end a person
is responsible for their own actions."
Tanner said he believes the death sentence
would be overturned.
"We will have a record which shows how
long the jurors deliberated and the notes
which they sent out," Tanner said.
"All the jurors told us that they thought
Ronald Howard was affected by this gangsta
rap music," he said. "However, balancing it
with his background and the crime which
Ronald committed, they didn't that it was
enough whereby he deserved a life sentence."
Cnme Stoppers
Storage buildings located
on South College were bur
glarized March 17 between
noon and 3:30 p.m. The per
sons responsible for this bur
glary cut the locks off several
storage buildings.
While inside, they stole one
overhead metal door, comput
er equipment, a Victor weld
ing set and hoses, a truck
wench with a 125' cable, 550
lbs of "shot" shotgun pellets, a
Heyn 270 bolt-action rifle and
a Remington 22-250 rifle with
an eight power scope. Also
taken were several golf clubs.
two wedges, two putters,
three iron drives, a brown golf
bag, a pair of NIKE white and
blue men's size 13 goif shoes.
The estimated value of these
items is $2,432.
The suspects are described
as one black female and two
white females, all heavy
build, driving a black or
dark-colored pickup truck.
Bryan Police Department De
tectives believe these sus
pects may have been in
volved in two other burglar
ies that occurred in Bryan.
This week the Bryan Po
lice Department and Brazos
County Crime Stoppers need
help identifying the persons re
sponsible for this burglary. If
you have any information call
Crime Stoppers at 775-TIPS.
When you call you will be giv
en a special coded number to
protect your identity.
If your information leads to
an arrest and a grand jury in
dictment Crime Stoppers will
pay you up to $1,000 in cash.
Crime Stoppers also pays cash
for information on any felony
crime or the location of any
wanted fugitive.
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