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National Team Meeting 16th June 2011 - Paddy Keays
Welcome
Caroline McHale
Multiple Intelligences
Caroline McHale
Multiple Intelligences
• Enhance Learning
• No Guarantees…………magic words
• Suggestions…Professionals Cautious
• Task of Teaching…delicate/sensitive/difficult
• How a student Learns …….complex
• Uniqueness of each student
‘Necessity is the mother of invention’
“The Best Teacher Ever”
My personal experience of a good
Teacher is
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“The Best Teacher Ever”
What was so “special” about this Teacher?
Tweaking the Teaching
• We are not looking for a radical overhaul – just a few
tweaks and a bit of polish. In order to do this we
need to:
• Be specific and accurately identify which aspects of
our performance needs tweeking
• Identify strategies that will enable us to do the
tweeking
Where are you now?
• Pause and reflect on the quality of lessons you
currently teach. What marks out of ten would you
award yourself for the quality of teaching
• Whatever mark you gave yourself you will remain
there unless you do something different
• The key question is how are you going to improve it?
If you scored 4/10 how will you make it 5/10, or how
will you make 8/10 into 9/10
Tweaking the Teaching
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Multiple Intelligences
“Tell me and I forget,
Show me and I remember,
Involve me and I know”
Chinese Proverb
How much do you remember?
• Recall peaks a few minutes after the learning
experience ends
• Up to 40% of the material is forgotten within 5
minutes!
• Up to 80% of the material is forgotten within
24 hours!
Multiple Intelligences
“Things to Learn”
Decide on Choice A. Choice B,or Choice C
Average Retention Rates
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Lecture
Reading
Audio Visual
Demonstration
Discussion
Practice by doing
Teach others
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90%
Improve Learning
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Build in reward
Use relaxation or energising techniques
High expectations
Use positive, affirming language
Pre- process
Give the big picture first
Chunk it down
Connect left and right for the whole brain learning
Utilise all the intelligences
Provide work at individual, pair and group
Improve learning
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Use visual displays
Provide multi-path learning opportunities
Use spiral learning
Provide opportunities to demonstrate new
knowledge
Build in review
Memory maps for note taking
Music in the background
Teach time and priority skills
Use creative visualisation
Build in fun!
Understanding
• Asking questions is fundamental to developing
understanding
• Asking questions without fear or
embarrassement is crucial to protecting selfesteem
Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardiner, Psychologist
• Dissatisfied with narrow range of ability that I.Q.
tests measure
• Fascinated with how the brain works
• Studied different cultures,brain damaged adults
and autistic children
• Wanted to devise a broader concept of
intelligence
• At least 8 systems for learning and for coming to
awareness
A Change in Emphasis……
Is He/She Clever?
To
In What Ways is He/She Clever?
Multiple Intelligences
Dr Howard Gardiner identified eight main categories of
human intelligence:
• Linguistic
• Logical/
mathematical
• Visual/spatial
• Bodily-kinaesthetic
• Intrapersonal
• Interpersonal
• Naturalist
• Musical
Some people excel in one of these areas at the expense of
the others, while others have a more balanced profile
Linguistic / Verbal
• Sensitivity to sounds, rhythms and meanings of
words
• Associated with arguing, debating, persuading and
telling stories
• Like to read, write and listen
• Enjoy writing stories
• Often spell words accurately and easily
Identify a linguistic student…
Am I Lingistic?
Linguistic / Verbal
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Difficult words/ tell a story
Wordgames /Crosswords
Like to hear
Library ….exercising /
Early age……..baby is born with the potential of
learning any language
• Improve Travel, Reading, listening to current affairs,
• Notice words
• Diary of an entrepreneur
Logical / Mathematical
• The capacity to recognise logical or numerical
patterns
• Like to experiment, solve puzzles
• Enjoy working with numbers and mathematical
formulas
• Love the challenge of a complex problem to solve
• Ask the questions “how?” and “ why?”
Identify a logical student….
Am I Logical?
Logical / Mathematical
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Later in childhood
Peaks in adulthood….40
Begin with a logical question…
Order in life
Time lines
Lists
What will happen next?
Musical
• Love music and rhythmic patterns
• Sensitive to sounds in the environment
• Often reproduce a melody after hearing it only
once
• Like to have music in the background when
working
• Often quite skilled at mimicking sounds, language
and accents
Identify a musical intelligent student
Am I musically Intelligent?
Musical
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Early and remains
Power Christmas/funerals/
Beta- attentive – Problem solving
Alpha – relaxed – learning
Theta – meditation
Delta – deep sleep
Key words to a familiar tune or rap
Suzuki
Visual / Spatial
• Think in images and pictures
• Often aware of objects, shapes, colours and
patterns
• Like to draw, paint, make interesting designs and
patterns
• Love jigsaw puzzles, reading maps and
daydreaming
• Strong opinions about such things as colours that
go together, textures that are appropriate and
pleasing!
Identify a visual intelligent student..
Am I visually intelligent?
Visual / Spatial
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Mind maps
Visualisation – Waitress
Montessori
Lines boring
Imagination
Colour
Bodily / Kinesthetic
• Control of body movements and the capacity to
handle objects skillfully
• Learn through their body sensations, enjoy
touching, feeling and tapping
• Enjoy roleplay simulations, physical exercises
• Movement is essential
• Easily bored if they are not actively involved
Identify a kinesthetic Student….
Am I Kinesthetically Intelligent?
Bodily / Kinesthetic
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Drive
Cross crawl
Oxygen - stand increase oxygen by 10%
Roleplay
Movement is essential
Intrapersonal
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Like to work alone
Self reflective
Think about thinking
Highly intuitive
Inwardly motivated rather than needing
external rewards
• Other people will come to them for advise
Identify an Intrapersonal student..
Am I Intrapersonal person?
Interpersonal
• Sensitivity to moods, feelings, motivation and desires
of other people
• Enable us to work with others
• Listen effectively, negotiate, handle conflicts and get
along well with diverse groups of people
• Enjoy participating in cooperative learning groups
Identify an interpersonal Intelligent student?
Am I an Interpersonal person?
Naturalist
• Notice characteristics and patterns of the
environment
• Like to collect items from nature, study them
and group them
• Farmers, gardners, botanists, geologists,
florists.
Identify a naturalist Intelligent student…
Am I a naturalist intelligent person?
You may be interested in knowing what engineers discovered in a wind tunnel about why geese
fly in a “V” formation. As each bird flaps its wings, it creates lift for the goose immediately
following. By flying in a “V” formation, the whole flock adds at least 71% greater range than if
each bird flew on its own. Whenever a goose falls out of formation, it suddenly feels the drag
and resistance of trying to go it alone, and moves back into formation to take advantage of the
lifting power of the bird immediately in front. When the lead goose gets tired, it rotates back in
the wind and another goose flies point. The geese honk from behind to encourage those up
front to keep their speed. Finally, when a goose gets sick, or is wounded by gun shots and falls
out of formation, two geese fall out with him and follow him down to help protect them. They
stay with him until he is either able to fly, or until he is dead. Then they launch out on their own
or with another formation to catch up with the group
Multiple Intelligences
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Try this Multiple Intelligences
Self Test to see what your
profile is.
• Treat it as fun and concentrate
on what you seem best at afterwards.
Note; These scores are not fixed forever……
Enjoy
When we tap into our strongest
intelligences……
We hit a pool of energy
• Our attention is caught
• Our interest is aroused
• Our understanding is enhanced
• Our memory is improved
“Multiple Intelligences does not
demand an overhaul of a
Curriculum; it merely provides a
framework for enhancing instruction
and a language to describe ones
efforts”
With regard to discipline
• Weak in a particular intelligence eg Linguistic
Talking is the least effective approach to
convey the seriousness of a discipline issue
• An appreciation of my own intelligences and an
awareness of the students Multiple Intelligences.
• A perspective on possibilities for Enhancing
Teaching.
• Confidence to stay out of my comfort zone for
longer periods!
Multiple Intelligences
A Journey of a Thousand Miles starts with
the First Step!
• We rarely use a single intelligence on its
own…………………
• We will invite you to do just that, so you can
check out how you feel and what you think about
that intelligence…………
Work Shop
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A very practical and fun
approach to Multiple Intelligences!
• Each person must attempt 8
tasks representing the
different Intelligences.
Enjoy!
Multiple Intelligences
• Does the theory make sense in the light of your
experience?
• How does it affect your view of the students?
• Does it affirm your current work?
• Does it offer good Resources For Teaching?
• Does it show useful ways of engaging students in
their learning?
Multiple Intelligences
Determine what is most appropriate for my
teaching approach, Content, and students.
1. One intelligence
2. Students choice
3. Other………………
Multiple Intelligences
A key to meeting the needs of
the many different types of
learner is variety.
But variety does not happen
by chance – it has to be
planned for.
That’s all very well (but!!!)and
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Class Size
Time Factor
Lack of Awareness
Comfort Zone
Resistance to Change
School Culture
Others…………………………..
That’s all very well but!!!!
Issues
Strategies
Multiple Intelligences
email :cmchale99@eircom.net
087 9598538
Multiple Intelligences
Thank You
Contact Details
Caroline McHale
National Co-ordinator for Business and Enterprise
087 9598538
carolinemchale@pdst.ie
business@pdst.ie
The LCVP is funded by the Department of
Education and Science under the National Development Plan