how does multiple intelligences help the teacher and the child?

Question

pls. i need your true reactions?...thanks in advance

Answer 1

According to Gardner there are different ways in which people learn. He called these "intelligences." I did my thesis work on a project which incorporated this idea. I adapted my lessons to included a variety of ways for the class to interact and learn the material. I found a great deal of success in this style of teaching. I teach high school level science. My way of presenting a lesson is now: 1) demo (visual learning) 2) discussion of demo (audible) 3) power point with animations and music to present standards for lesson (audible, visual, musical) 4) group work to explore the topic (social) 5) written, drawn, computer slides, or oral summary is required of each student. This allows them to chose the form of communication most comfortable for them. I give out the grading rubrics before anything is assigned so the students can decided which form of summary they want to work on. It took a lot of my time to set this up, but I have noticed better retention of the material from the "C" range students than I have had in previous years.

Answer 2

Multiple intelligence? Everyone has that. It depends what kind of multiple intelligence. Lets say a child has great social intelligence, and so does the teacher, then you would think they're gonna get along, right, well yes maybe but who knows, really? What if the child has tremendous spacial intelligence? I dint see how each persons intelligence would help or not help anyone, I dint think it matters. I think it does matter on the ability of a teacher to respond to the needs of the individual child's abilities and learning strengths. My son has mild ADD and is deaf, I pulled him out of school, home schooled him for 7 years, now that we found a private academy with a great teacher who responds well to him, he has been happier at school. If a teacher cant adjust, then why be a teacher?

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Answer 3

Gardner's theory...OH SO TRUE!!!

I use his theory when I teach social studies, and it helps! It makes the lessons more memorable and it gives kids a way to remember the information in their own context. As a teacher, a 45 minute lecture on the physical attributes of North America doesn't slice it. You break up the information in different segments, and how I do it is through the 4-MAT system, which is my best friend. I do left-brained learning first, like notes, small lecture but I use maps, pictures, stories/storyboards to illustrate my basic essential questions. Left-brained work includes vocabulary and map skills. Then, I use different activities for students to learn the information. That is the right brained approach--visual dictionaries, the story boards/cartoon boards, walk-abouts--and it helps! I can accurately grade students on the depth of knowledge of information on their own terms, even if they bomb on tests. They'll pass on different ways they can decipher the facts, whether it is visual, kinestetic, oral...