Pintsteins 2008-2009
Elementary
Highly Gifted Option
Topics for Tonight
• Rationale
• Plan
• Feedback
Plan
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9 Wednesdays
Same Day as PLC days plus one more-4/22
11:45pm- 1:00pm
Located at Runyon Elementary School
27 Invited from across district, scattered in 11
LPS elementary schools
Students bring lunch, have time to socialize with
like peers
Rationale
• “We need to prepare students to think, analyze,
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synthesize, and evaluate information.”
Dr. Sue Teele
“The ability to produce a product or solve a
problem that is valued by a culture or a society.”
The definition of intelligence as written by
Howard Gardner, Educational Psychologist at
Harvard University
Factors Influencing Intelligence
• Genetics
• Personal Life History
• Geographical and Cultural Situations
Content- Curriculum based upon :
Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligences
(“Not how smart you are, but rather, how are you smart.”)
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Linguistic
Logical-Mathematical
Visual-Spatial
Bodily-Kinesthetic
Musical
Intrapersonal
Interpersonal
Naturalist
Linguistic
• Students understand life through language
• Read/write/listen/speak-enjoy and excel at one or more
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of these
Strong auditory skills
Remember names/places/dates/trivia
Enjoy jokes, tall tales, puns, stories
Well-developed vocabulary
Effective communicators
Authors, journalists, poets, comedians, public speakers,
librarian, speech pathologist, radio or tv announcer,
attorney
Logical-Mathematical
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Patterns categorize relationships
Need order in life-may be a list maker
Enjoy math, computer spreadsheets and databases
Excel at problem solving and thinking logically
Enjoy using scientific method and conducting
experiments
• Clear analytical, logical thinkers
• Good at strategy games such as Chess, Checkers.
Tendency toward competitiveness
• Engineers, scientists, economists, accountants,
detectives, auditor, statistician, mathematician,
computer analyst and attorney
Visual-Spatial
• Process and think in pictures or visual manner
• Excel at art, jigsaw puzzles, origami, map reading
• Tendency to daydream, or experiences vivid dreams at
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Notice and enjoy details
Are good at spatial tasks-can tell if something will fit in a
certain box, can assemble items without reading
directions
Benefit from visual presentations, graphic organizers,
color coding, mind mapping, etc.
Architects, sculptors, painters, sailors, photographers,
engineer, surveyor, urban planner, interior design,
photographer, pilot and other artistic fields
Bodily-Kinesthetic
• Learn through movement
• Needs to move while learning, will find way to move if
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Enjoy hands-on, active, role-play, simulations in class
Exhibit good coordination
Tendency to tap/twitch/fidget
Good abilities in sports, dance, active pursuits
Athletes, dancers, actors, artists, builders, surgeons,
craftpersons, physical therapist, forest ranger, jeweler
Musical-Rhythmic
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Sensitive to sounds in environment
Enjoy and appreciate music
Perhaps play an instrument
Good sense of rhythm
Hum, tap, clap often
Benefit from raps, singing, chanting, clapping to
learn material
Musicians, composers, recording engineers,
conductor, choral director, piano tuner
Interpersonal
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Socializes and interacts with others
Many friends
Can display empathy and relate well
Pulls energy from being with other people
Organize, manipulate, communicate with other people
Enjoys cooperative learning
Involved in the emotions of others
Teachers, therapists, politicians, religious leaders,
administrator, manager, nurse, entrepreneur, and people
in the sales field
Intrapersonal
• Self-aware, ability to reflect and self-analyze
• Thinks about self, contemplates one’s own behavior and
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feelings
Strong willed, opinionated
Takes a stand, others aren’t sure what to think about
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Reclusive-decides who can come in- (can cause struggleinterpersonals burst in, intrapersonals don’t let them in
until ready)
Intuitive
Non-conforming
Philosophers, counselors, therapists, theologian,
program planner, entrepreneur and people performing at
top in all fields
Naturalist
• Ability to recognize/distinguish plants and animals
• Can make important distinctions in nature and use this ability for
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productive purpose
Enjoy collecting, analyzing, and classifying information
Enjoys applying new knowledge to nature (learns everything he can
about dinosaurs compares new theories to his own opinions as they
come forward for “fit”)
Collect objects from nature
Enjoys spending time outside
Wants to watch natural occurrences (stars, weather, moon) and
record observations.
Botanist, farmer, conservationist, environmentalist, biologist,
paleontologist, gardener, astronomer, wildlife illustrator, chef,
geologist, landscape architect
Class Format
• Power Point about each of the Multiple
Intelligences- one per class (*Eat)
• Video about person who embodies this
particular intelligence (*Eat)
• Activity to experience the intelligence
• Time to reflect/journal about what they
have learned
Topics for the Videos
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Edward R. Murrow
Richard Feynman
MC Escher
Virtuoso Violinists
Leonardo Da Vinci
Nuns of the St. Francis Order
Eleanor Roosevelt
Ansel Adams
How do you know what your child
has synthesized from class?
• Additional class meeting scheduled for
April 22nd .
• Students will create a project that reflects
their own intelligences
• Students will present their intelligences
project at the Parent Night Celebration
April 28th.
Feedback
• Student
I met new friends. There were people in
my class who understood me and were
like me.
I liked having a chance to meet some kids
who would be going to my middle school
I had a lot of fun.
Feedback
• Parent
I just wanted you to know how much my son
enjoyed the Pintsteins program. He was a little
hesitant at first, but I believe he really benefited
from the program. Thank you!
Anything that helps these kids accept who they
are, especially at this age is very important, and
this class helped a lot in strengthening them to
handle the rest of their school week.
“Most teachers waste their time by asking
questions which are intended to discover
what a pupil does not know, whereas the
true art of questioning has for its purpose
to discover what the pupil knows or is
capable of knowing.”
Albert Einstein
Resources
• Presentation by Dr. Sue Teele on Multiple
Intelligences
• St Augustine’s College list of MI careers
• Howard Gardener’s books and website
• Kagan Multiple Intelligences pamphlet
• New City School’s book Multiple
Intelligences: Teaching Through the
Personal Intelligences