Chapter two of Multiple Intelligences In The Classroom deals with knowing where you stand as an educator and where your strengths and weaknesses are. Before you can properly assess your students you have to know where you come from yourself. After you know your weaknesses it is important to compensate for these by using outside resources to strengthen your teaching. Some of the best places for help are your fellow colleagues. They have had the same problems you have and you can find out how they worked certain areas into their unit. It is a good idea to have a team of colleagues that you meet with and talk about how you can incorporate all the multiple intelligences in your classroom. Another place you can go for ideas is you students. If you cannot draw very well then ask a student if they would not mind drawing the pictures for you. All students are different and they all have different strengths so it is likely that there will be a student with a certain intelligence in your classroom that you can use. One of the other spots you can go to develop your weaknesses is technology. You can supplement your lessons with technology such as using a calculator in math if you are weak in logical-mathematical areas. Then there are ways that you can develop your weaker intelligences. Most of the developments of intelligences rely on biological endowment, personal life history, and cultural background. Whether or not an intelligence develops or not is based on crystallizing and paralyzing events. Crystallizing events are measures that happen and positively act to further your intelligences while paralyzing events hinder the development of certain intelligences. Some factors that either promote or hinder the development of intelligences are: access to resources, historical-cultural factors, geographical factors, familial factors, and situational factors. It is important for a teacher to be able to recognize these events in his own life and try to develop the intelligences that are not as developed.
Many people felt that this chapter brought up good ideas. They felt that it is important for a teacher to know his own shortcomings and to try to work with others to make the impact of these shortcomings less noticeable in the classroom. Almost everyone found it interesting that there were events labeled “crystallizing” and “paralyzing” that affected how a person’s intelligences developed. The ways that intelligence could be developed intrigued many people and they reflected on their own lives and agreed that the situations listed in the chapter do change people’s intelligences and interests.
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I liked the wikipedia site because it showed an example of a savant, which is much more understandable now. Good job :)
Your MI Assessment Link rules!
It gives a great description of the different components to each of the intelligences.
I really like the first link Tristian. It gives a lot of good ideas on how to cater to each intelligence, something I plan on using as a future educator.
The first is a great resource! There's a lot of useful information throughout that website that I am sure to revisit. Great Job!
Tristan I liked the MI test because it gave the different types of lesson plans and activities that accompany the MI.
I liked the Wikipedia link. Not only did it have more information on MI, but it also had criticism. In our books we haven't really seen any criticism, so it's nice to see why not everyone areas with the theory.
The link on strengthening your teaching is going to be especially important as we are moving toward the classroom and take on that mentality. The focus for us has to be moving away from just our one 'go to' intelligence but remain multifaceted. This should provide some good insight on ways to avoid using that crutch.
Tristan,
I think the Wikipedia link is a great idea. Some people disregard wikipedia, but sometimes it is great for quick information. When writing in a blog format, I think it is perfectly appropriate to use wikipedia.
I really liked the strengthen your teaching link. I feel that in today's education world we find many teachers struggling with their classes. I believe that links or websites such as these help teachers to take a step back and see what they are doing. It gives them reenforcement that they are doing ok, and to keep pushing on!
Tristan, I really liked the quiz on multiple intelligences for students. I think it would be a really helpful way to learn more about your students!
I really like the Web site about strengthening my teaching. It looks interesting. I've been wondering how to apply MI in a lesson.
I thought that the link to the site that stresses the importance of Teacher's knowing their own proclivities was an excellent choice. It also is a very important tool. I think that as teachers we need to remember what our proclivities are so that we can branch out and reach all students
That other intelligence test looked interesting. It seemed a little more in depth then the one we took in class. I will explore this test more because I have been questioning the results I got in class.
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