Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011 | Education
Multiple intelligences instruction has the potential to reach
and teach vast numbers of students, but incorporating it
effectively while still meeting curriculum requirements and
insuring that students are developing their verbal-linguistic
and logical-mathematical intelligences is no small feat.
In the first part of this series, I asked the question: How do
you effectively incorporate the multiple intelligences, meet the
requirements of your school's curriculum, and make sure that
your ...
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Saturday, November 19th, 2011 | Education
American schools have traditionally favored those students who
excel in the linguistic and analytical arenas because these
skills are highly valued in our culture. Unfortunately, this
traditional approach leaves certain students behind to stumble
blindly through an educational system which ignores their unique
abilities. This is not to say that the development of linguistic
and analytical skills should be abandoned in favor of
nontraditional approaches to education. Rather, traditional ...
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Wednesday, November 16th, 2011 | Education
Although many high school age students tend to think and learn
in nontraditional ways, American schools still base their
instruction primarily on the verbal-linguistic and
logical-mathematical intelligences. As a result, many students
who are not strong in these traditional intelligences develop
poor attitudes toward school and their academic achievement
suffers.
According to psychologist Howard Gardner's theory of multiple
intelligences, intelligences change with age and with
experience. Since ...
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Sunday, November 13th, 2011 | Education
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is based on
the premise that each individual's intelligence is composed of
multiple "intelligences," each of which has its own independent
operating system within the brain. These intelligences include:
verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial,
bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and
naturalist.
The verbal-linguistic intelligence is the use of both written
and spoken language for the purpose of communication. ...
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Thursday, November 10th, 2011 | Education
Howard Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences is based on
the premise that each individual's intelligence is composed of
multiple "intelligences," each of which has its own independent
operating system within the brain. These intelligences include:
verbal-linguistic, logical-mathematical, spatial,
bodily-kinesthetic, musical, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and
naturalist.
The verbal-linguistic intelligence is the use of both written
and spoken language for the purpose of communication. ...
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Sunday, November 6th, 2011 | Education
Creativity is central to the management of our individual lives,
but in modern times few people are able to access this as a
resource. Alan Watts writes in The Wisdom of Insecurity:
"We have allowed brain thinking to develop and dominate our
lives out of all proportion to 'instinctual wisdom'; which we
are allowing to slump into atrophy. As a consequence we are at
war within ourselves - the brain desiring things which the body
does not want, and the body desiring things that the brain will
not ...
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Friday, November 4th, 2011 | Education
Left Side, Right Side, Offside
Is there anything in the dominance of the left side of the brain
in mathematical ability?
Are boys better than girls in mathematics, because of left brain
dominance?
The concept of left brain and right brain thinking developed
from the research in the late 1960s by an American neurosurgeon
Roger W Sperry. He was awarded a Nobel Prize in 1981.
I came across a variation of this theory (which I'll call the
gender theory) in the late 1970s. The gender theory was ...
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011 | Education
One of parents' most important duties is to protect their
children from harmful sexual values and behaviors. Yet many
public schools force potentially harmful, sometimes shockingly
explicit sex education on their students.
Most of the time, parents have no control over the content of
these classes. Occasionally, a group of parents finds out about
a particularly obnoxious sex education class and protests to the
principal or local school board. The class may be dropped, only
to be replaced by ...
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Sunday, October 30th, 2011 | Education
One key challenge educators face is the importance of
encouraging girls to excel in math, science and computer science
studies. As technology continues to drive the world of business,
those challenged or generally disinterested in science and math
will be left behind. In fact, that's exactly what's happening.
Although women make up approximately 50% of the general work
force in the U.S., they only represent 9% of workers in the
science and engineering community. With such a low percentage ...
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Thursday, October 27th, 2011 | Education
Fast track your results, develop positive learning behaviour,
establish purpose and design goals that motivate, with "study
skills"!
What is the most important skill? I'll give you a clue - you're
doing it right now. It's not reading, although reading is an
extremely important pathway of learning.
It's "thinking". The most important skill involves learning how
to use our internal software and hardware. The hardware being
the brain and the software being thinking patterns or "thoughts".
This ...
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