My Comment on Multiple Intelligence Reading
According to 'Learning Styles and Strategies' by Felder,R.M.and 'Technology and Multiple Intelligences' by H,Gardner, there are more types of learners than just three: Kinesthetic, Visual and Auditory that we have been reading for ages. And we can do much more in any suitable, yet best ways to facilitate those divergent learners
There are basically four dichotomous learners referring to Felder,R.M.:
1. Active Vs Reflective
2. Sensing Vs Intuitive
3. Visual Vs Verbal
4. Sequential Vs Global
The reflective learners can be a team leader for a project task, or for the virtual classes and assist other friends. Sensing learners could be given to solve classroom exercises by using search engines . The intuitive can be given to reshape and enrich their blogs.The visual learners could be facilitated through films, videos and DVD of course stories, and make a review in their blogs. But, the verbal learners would narrate the whole story in a variety of ways. The sequential learners would describe the steps of preparing 'Rice-pudding', for example. And the global learners have to go through a specific story/novel, and upload one character analysis, perhaps the protagonist/vill- ain, on the course webpage.
Next article made me infer that multiple intelligence is much more aligned to the psychology which talks about learners' different abilities or, let's say, their prominent learning ability. So Gardnerian multiple intelligence are;
1.Verbal-Linguistic
2.Logical/Mathematical
3.Visual/Spatial
4.Bodily/Kinesthetic
5.Musical/Rhythmic
6.Intrapersonal
7.Interpersonal
8.Naturalist
9.Existentialist
At the end
Learners possess different degrees of learning in each intelligence. On the part of the teacher it becomes pertinent to have an integrative classroom of divergent exercises taking individual difference/s! Therefore, multiple intelligence is much more than just addressing their intelligence; it's, in a way, becoming multiple intelligent for we teachers!
© Yubaraj Neupane
Thanking you!
Young & Yummy
Yubaraj Neupane
Kathmandu,Nepal
Hi Yubaraj,
ReplyDeleteat first, the idea of having multiple intelligence in a classroom is a difficult thing to deal with if you don`t know how to identify them or maybe how can we work effectivetly but the resources have been very helpful in terms of teaching performance because it gives us a model on which more than being a teacher, we become a researcher and our goal is to identify our students learning style and know how we can develop each of them. Good post my friend and I hope you keep it in that way. Greetings from Chile and see you.