My knowledge of multiple intelligences enhances my teaching methodology because, I understand that students learn and process information differently, therefore I can adjust my delivery still to meet the students' needs.
Hi James,
Great to hear. I wish you much success in your teaching efforts.
Gary
Knowing how students procces information will help to provide more than one method to deliver the information that needs to be learned.
Knowing these multiple intelligences will help me teac students that I could not help before.
Hi Dawn,
Right you are. With this components integrated into your instructional planning you are going to have a winner in terms of teaching.
Gary
By teaching with methods that maximize the different processes that students learn information, I will benefit my students most. They will understand, retain more and be able to demonstrate the techniques needed to be a good medical assistant.
Hi John,
In situations like this there should be some type of pretesting to help proper placement of students in different classes and career programs. This way the students can use their intelligences and skills to be successful.
Gary
Hi Wanda,
Good strategy. I think this will really benefit your students. Be interesting to observe the results you get with this effort.
Gary
Some of our students have a high mechanical ability but some have no comon sence at all. We spend most of our time with the ones that just don't get it.
Not sure if it will affect my teaching methodology because we use several types of instructional methods to accommadate different learning styles. I might be good to let the class find what their multiple intelligences are. It might make a difference in the groups that are put together in the labs. Maybe that could make a difference on how the groups learn.
I use multi ways for my students to learn in class for this very reason. I found this section interesting.
Hi David,
I like your supportive approach to learning success for your students. They know you care about them and their success in the class. This sets the stage for learning if the students are willing to put forth the effort.
Gary
Not all students learn at the same pace. I observe facial expressions and responses to specific questions as we continue through the course. If I expect that a student is having difficulty, I try to ask them outside of class if there is anything that I might be able to do to provide additional assistance.
Hi Cemal,
Right you are about having this knowledge on the different ways students acquire knowledge and process content. This helps us with our instruction planning and delivery in many ways.
Gary
Hi Robert,
Good comments on how we all can expand our knowledge on how to approach learning situations in different ways to maximize knowledge acquisition. By having this knowledge we can explore all kinds of creative options for delivery of content and this is what makes teaching so much fun.
Gary
Hi Roy,
I commend you for your willingness to approach your students with the idea that you are going to offer a variety of instructional deliveries that will appeal to the different intelligences of your students. This is what good instructional planning is all about.
Gary
Agree with you, Andrew. Utilizing variety of instructional techniques would help students understand the content much easier, and give them opportunity for a better learning experience.
Once we know your students' dominant intelligences we will have a better understanding how students process information. Then we can adapt teaching strategies in a way that that helps students having a good learning experience.
Dr. Meers,
I think that just by taking this refresher course on how students perceive, retain and process information for later applications in life, is an eye and mind opening lesson for me, as a teacher, to clearly focus in on student
learning needs when planning and delivering instructional information. In my field of study (culinary arts), I find that if I concentrate on three the best intellegence areas and modules for learning and content development: verbal, visual, and kinesthetic; my students can easily process the information given to them, and create for themselves, an exact replication and plate design as instructed during class production and demonstration. Multiple intellegences using musical, rhythmic, spacial, and visional motion all play their roll in recalling the training I daily demonstrate to them in the kitchen.
Knowing my students areas of intellegence learning, does aid me in creating school curriculum that will successfully be recalled at a later date in life for student succcess.
Hello Dr. Meers
My understanding of multiple intelligences pushes me to be more diverse in delivery methods and in trying to find the best ways students grasp, retain, and utilize new information and learning. When planning for instructional delivery, it is always easiest for me to do what comes natural for me, but that may not be what is best or most productive for my students. The challenge is to identify the multiple intelligences and then take the information to the student in the way they can best receive, process, and internalize it.
