Thursday, May 31, 2007
Multiple intelligences
I was reading the part of chapter 4 on multiple intelligences and just it was sucha great reminder that there are so many diferent things teachers can incorperate into teaching to help their students learn. I had previously learned about catering to multiple intelligences in a different class, but I'm glad that it is reitterated here. Sometimes when teachers get caught up in catering to a special population such as ELLs they forget that aside from being ELLs they are still normal students. ELLs will have different intelligences as well. Another reason I'm glad that this we brought to my attention again is that it is so easy to neglect the intelligences that seem boring or uninteresting to me, but I knwo I can't do that. For example, even though I don't learn through music I have to remember that some of my students might and it is about them not me. This was also very beneficial because while I was going over this section it gave me the opportunity to think of diferent strategies to incorperate into my class for each of the intelligences. As a Phys Ed teacher some of the intelligences will be easy to cater to in the gym such as kinesthetic and social and others will be accomodated better in the classroom for health such as linguistic and individual. Even though some are easy to work into a lesson there is a way to work them all in to a classroom or a gym.
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I completely agree that it is hard to remember that everyone learns in different ways. Not only ELLs but all children learn in their own way. We all have our strategies on how we remember things. Some may be a little more creative then others in their learning styles. Some may be through repetition while others may learn through visual means. We must always remember to accomodate to everyone's needs.
It is true that all students learn differently. We can't just put ELL students into one category and say that they all learn the same. We must cater to the individual ways that each ELL student learns. One thing might work with one student, but might not work with another. We can't just write the student off as being not as intelligent as the other. We need to find what works best with each child.
I totally agree with presenting content material in a variety of ways. The last lesson plan I did for junior field was on the Holocaust. I incorporated a reading, key vocabulary words that were written on the board, I passed around a few pictures of a concentration camp and then showed a short video clip of a movie that included sceens from a concentration camp, afterward I had students write a journal entry about how they would feel if they had discovered a concentration camp as a US soldier. I was observed during this lesson and one of the positive comments I received was how I varried the material that was presented and how it accomodated different learning styles. My point is that it is not hard to address different learners it just take a little extra planning.
Yes, we all are intelligent and capables to laern as much as we want. As teacher in a classroom os 20+ is hard to remember every student way of learning something.
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