Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 12

Chapter 12: This chapter relates how students think and what they think. It is important to understand that with multiple intelligences students learn, relate and retain differently. By using the multiple intelligences to your advantage students will learn more, relate their understandings to meaningful examples and retain more. Students solve differently because to their strengths and weaknesses of the different intelligences. It is important that as a teach you give them the time, resources and knowledge to be able to solve real-world examples and retain the knowledge.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 11

Chapter 11: In this chapter we recognize that everyone has strengths and weaknesses including those with special needs. Every student shows strength in different multiple intelligences. It is important as a teacher to be able to recognize these strengths and use them to aid your students understanding and learning. I am going to see my students’ success and achievements and congratulate them on such. This is also important as all students should be given an opportunity to succeed. By doing this, students will feel that they are at the same level of understanding and learning as others no matter the weakness.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 8

Chapter 8: This chapter was about using the multiple intelligences to aid you in classroom management. There were several examples that were given in the text that gets students attention, help prepare transitions, communicate class rules, form groups and manage individuals. It is important to me to use multiple intelligences in every aspect of the classroom including classroom management. This will help students remember groups or rules. This is important as students will learn more even when the context does not directly apply to the unit.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 14

Chapter 14: In this chapter, a ninth intelligence is uncovered. This intelligence, existential intelligence, focuses on ultimate life issues. I feel that this is very relevant to science as many scientific theories are deep and meaningful questions that do not have a simple answer. I also think that there are other intelligences besides this possible ninth intelligence that have not been categorized yet. This is important to keep in mind as students may fit into an intelligence but it may not be their true intelligence.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 13

Chapter 13: In this chapter there were three major ideas discussed. The first is how to use technology with the multiple intelligences. The second is using the multiple intelligences and relating them to cultural diversity. The third idea was multiple intelligences and career counseling. I think that it is really important to incorporate both technology and the multiple intelligences into the classroom, so combing the two into one activity really helps with lesson planning to bring both into the classroom. I also think that it is important to broaden students awareness of different cultures and the different ways that these cultures are learning. We could really learn a lot by examining a different culture and their teaching styles.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 7

Chapter 7: The classroom environment is discussed and is very important in the learning experience of students. Setting and keeping a comfortable learning environment will help students fell less pressured and will up learning potential. It is also important to incorporate a different learning activity for each intelligence. This chapter introduces an activity center that has four major components. By using this activity center in the classroom will allow students to pick what activities to do an will help future their learning. If I were to use this model in my classroom I would have to make the activities appropriate to the age group and topic.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 5

Chapter 5: Incorporating different learning styles into the classroom is important as there are many styles of learners. In order for your students to learn you must transform these strengths and weaknesses into varying lesson plans. The chapter gives specific examples of the different intelligences for each concentration. This will become a useful tool when planning lessons and units. The chapter also gives resources for teachers and offers ways to help them brainstorm different activities. This is also a useful tool to consult when planning your lessons as it could open up a whole new way of teaching.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 6

Chapter 6: This chapter was a lot like the last chapter. It expanded more on the different intelligences and gave five specific examples for each. The examples provide many ways in which students can be successful in your classroom. This is a helpful tool and resource as a future teacher as these examples provide a base line or act as a set of guidelines for your lessons. As a teacher I will most likely use these as building blocks for my curriculum. This will help make sure that everyone’s learning style is covered.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Teaching with the multiple intelligences is beneficial to your students and needs to be paired with assessment using the multiple intelligences. There are many ways in which students can be successful, one of the best ways to tell is to observe. Other ways of assessing their learning is through student journals, work samples, calendar records, etc. This is important to bring into your classroom as sometimes one cannot tell a students learning from simple test scores and other quantative grades. My goal as a teacher is to assess students’ success and learning through observation and other methods of assessment not just test grades and attendance.

Multiple Intelligence:Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Teaching students about multiple intelligences is important so that they can understand how they learn. This is useful to learners as they can alter some things to better accommodate their intelligence and learning style. The use of simple terms helps students understand the model. I think that it is important for students to know how they learn. I did not know my preferred intelligence until my freshman year of college and when I look back on my high school career I wish that I had known as it would have helped me in many subjects. My goal is to help my students find their preferred intelligence and help them strengthen others.

Multiple Intelligence: Chapter 3

Chapter 3: Usually students’ prominent intelligences begin to develop and show at an early age. It is helpful that this occurs as schools can start to devise curriculum so that learning can be maximized through their preferred intelligence. Everyone is intelligent in all eight areas just a couple are usually more prominent in learners. This will help teachers as they can plan accordingly. By the time students reach a higher level of learning their intelligences should be somewhat developed. I can use this to my advantage when in the classroom to target certain strengths and weaknesses of students.

Multiple Intelligences: Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Learning about yourself and how you learn is valuable as an educator. It is important to understand how you learn best as these might be your strongest ways of teaching. It is important to work on teaching in all areas and through all learning styles as many students will find success in multiple ways. This impacts me because I now know how I learn best. I know what works for me, and what doesn’t. This will influence how I teach as I am a bodily-kinesthetic and I think that it is important to teach outside the traditional ways. I can also take my knowledge of how I learn and use it to my advantage when teaching and working with other kinesthetic learners.

Multiple Intelligences: Chapter 1

Chapter 1: Howard Gardner’s theory of multiple intelligences is stated in the first chapter. The eight intelligences (linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial, bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, naturalist) are broken down into strengths and weaknesses. It is important to incorporate each of the necessary intelligences into your curriculum as to cater to each student’s learning. It is also important to try to challenge each student to use and build on their weaker intelligences. Howard Gardner also stated that there could be many more intelligences than just his first eight. This is important to keep in mind as students will not fit cookie-cutter into any specific intelligence.