After reviewing the various “Try This” sections in the textbook, I selected the “Try This,” on page 44, regarding “Helping students understand how they learn best,” because this theory increases everyone’s productivity and provides opportunities for success in any classroom. In a previous course, I hade learned about Howard Gardner’s Theory of Multiple Intelligences, which acknowledges that everyone has different learning styles that can be used to demonstrate their learning success through problem solving, inventing, and creating. As a Mastery Teacher, I must be aware of my students’ various multiple intelligences and plan accordingly so that students understand their learning style, increase their comfort and motivation levels, as well …show more content…
Challenging students to learn using multiple intelligences and life skills experiences encourages success and creates a connection to the world around them, and engages in intrinsic motivation. Using multiple intelligences activities created to address students’ interest, talents, and needs increases positive attitudes and promotes higher order thinking. By using collages, sculptures, models, and visual stories, teachers create complex thinking tasks and performance-oriented problem solving activities, even creating portfolios, projects, journals, and other creative tasks to develop a student’s sense of accomplishment and self-confidence. A variety of learning experiences that allow students to experiment, to learn, and to express their knowledge. Interactive discussions, graphic organizers, and cooperative learning activities engage students in learning and embed knowledge into their long term memory. Developing and implementing cooperative learning activities will allow the writer’s students to share their success, to work with others, to learn from others, and to learn socialization …show more content…
There is no question that for sometime now, our administration have been pushing the faculty to go paperless, therefore it was my desire to unearth a valid online multiple intelligence survey. After some investigation, I discovered the website, Multiple Intelligences For Adult Literacy and Education, http://www.literacynet.org/mi/assessment/cgi-bin/results.cgi. The website enables students to complete an online survey to discover their learning style and they receive an explanation of the type of learner they are, which also assists me with the creation of appropriate learning activities. Of course, implementing the Multiple Intelligence Survey was my starting point. By incorporating Gardner’s multiple intelligences, I am able to identify my students learning styles and can make my classroom a more brain-centered learning environment. Collaborative learning and presentation of individual projects demonstrate interpersonal and intrapersonal intelligences. Exploration and investigation using their naturalist intelligence occurred throughout the unit. Using technology will enhance my ability to incorporate activities that meet the multiple intelligences and learning styles of my students. My students will take the online survey from the website. Next, during individual meetings, we will discuss the outcomes of the survey and the meaning of each identified intelligence. Afterwards, I will evaluate the collected data and assess the different learning styles.
In order for effective cooperative learning to occur five essential elements are needed; positive interdependence, face-to-face interactions, individual accountability, social skills and group processing. (Johnson, 1999, p. 70-71). Social skills being the foundation to achieving all other elements required, without this set of skills the individual learner will find it difficult to cooperate with others. Thompson (1996) “social skills are paramount to applying cooperative learning to academic tasks” (p. 84).
While I was reading the novel Beloved, I noticed several testimonies throughout the book, one of them being equality. The novel tells a tragic story about slavery and it is often pointed out that the color of one’s skin determines how he or she will be treated throughout life. The slaves in the book are in constant battle to survive among the white men; however, survival is not always the best things for the slaves.
Over the years there have been multiple theories suggested about human intelligence. Howard Gardner’s theory seems to be argued by some, while others embrace it and use it. Applying Gardner’s theory of the eight intelligences- interpersonal, intrapersonal, spatial, bodily, linguistic, musical, naturalistic, and logical- to the education system could help more students learn and understand where their strengths are and where their weaknesses are in order to be able to improve their intellgence abilities.
The 35F Intelligence Analyst course has not used any methods outside of classroom instruction to teach new soldiers intelligence analysis. The use of applications tied to the course is new ground for the committee and has the potential to change who teaching is being done at this course. For this research design, a quasi-experimental research design will be used because some of the results that will be looked at have already occurred. For instance, average grades of classes in the past who have not had the ability to use m-Learning tools will be compared to students who are using these tools to take the same course. For this research, grades, interviews, surveys, and observations will be used. This method was selected for several reasons:
In Flannery O’Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find” the author uses foreshadowing to lead up to the unexpected twist of fate that the family finds when meeting the story’s antagonist “The Misfit.” As columnist in English Language Notes David Piwinski explains, “The murders of the grandmother and her family by the Misfit come as no surprise to the attentive reader, since O’Connor’s story is filled with incidents and details that ominously foreshadow the family’s catastrophic fate” (73). The following passage will explore O’Connor’s usage of foreshadowing in “A Good Man is Hard to Find.”
In the essay, The Baby Boom and the Age of the Subdivision, author Kenneth Jackson tells about the changes in the nation after World War II ended, and there was a spike in baby births. He talks about the creation of the Levittown suburbs to accommodate families in need of housing because of this. While the new rise of suburbs created a new kind of community and family, it also proved to have a changing effect on inner city areas and certain people.
Noble, T. (2004). Integrating the revised bloom's taxonomy with multiple intelligences: A planning tool for curriculum differentiation. Teachers College Record, 106(1), 193-211. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9620.2004.00328.
Bruffe, Kenneth A. “The Art of Collaborative Learning: Making the Most of Knowledgeable Peers.” Composing Knoweledge; Readings for College Writes. Ed. Rolf Norgaatd. Boston:Bedford/St.Martin’s, 2007. 399-407. Print.
Howard Gardner is the “John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Adjunct Professor of Neurology at the Boston University School of Medicine, and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero” (Gardner bio, Multiple Intelligences and Education, MI Theory, and Project Zero). As director of Project Zero, it provided and environment that Gardner could begin the exploration of human cognition (Multiple Intelligences and Education). Project Zero colleagues have been designing assessment and the use of multiple intelligences (MI) to realize more personalized curriculum, instruction, and teaching methods; and the quality of crossing traditional boundaries between academic disciplines or schools of thought in education (Gardner bio). MI theories offer tools to educators that will allow more people to master learning in an effective way and to help people “achieve their potential at the workplace, in occupations, and in the service of the wider world” (Gardner papers).
In this course I examined past and present theories of how students absorb, process, and retain information, while also being introduced to a variety of instructional strategies. These strategies include incorporating research based Kagan strategies, multiple intelligences, and differentiated instruction into the lesson planning.
In closing, implementing only one theory of learning can be limiting to the success of students in a classroom setting. A more effective approach would be “draw from two or more theoretical perspectives… to better capture the complex nature of human thinking and learning” (Ormrod, 2012). According to Howard Gardner, there are multiple intelligences in human individuals that are based on biological and cultural elements (Brualdi, 1996). Since each of the intelligences work independently of each other, but also complement each other individuals learn, teachers should teach accordingly (Brualdi, 1996).
This past quarter I’ve learning many things in this course. Such as, the meaning of play, learning styles and what they are, Howard Gardner 's work, the eight intelligences, and finally, what brain research shows us.
Scarnati, J. T. (2001). Cooperative learning: make groupwork work. New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 67(Fall), 71-82.
Manner, Barbara M. (2001). Learning Styles and Multiple intelligences in students. Journal of College Science Teaching. 30(6) p 390-93. retrieved April 7, 2003 from Eric/Ebsco database.
There are several ways in which a teacher can accommodate every learning style by doing simple things in the classroom. Examples of this would be a certain seating arrangement or even just changing all the time to reach each students style. Knowing and learning styles might be one of the most important things to learn from your students at the beginning of each school year. There are several tests out there that can help with this, but know each style is also important. Knowing your own learning intelligence as a teacher will also help you and is important. This allows you to know in which way you will best be able to absorb information that is important in our teaching. Multiple intelligences are a vital part of any teacher’s lesson plans and are especially necessary in the ever-changing diversities of the schools. Learning styles will bring out the strengths and weaknesses.