Teaching with Intelligences
|
Teaching with Intelligences Just
as students are smart in different ways, they learn in different ways. . If
we
only
lecture, we inadvertently advantage our verbal/linguistic students at the expense
of our other students. By extending our teaching repertoire to encompass all
the intelligences, we make the content accessible to all of our students and
give all students an equal opportunity to excel.
Developing the Intelligences As
a pluralistic society, we value the capabilities, products and end-states of
all of
the intelligences. Why, then, have some schools chosen to elevate the status
of certain intelligences in the classroom while disregarding others? By broadening
our curriculum in the classroom to include the development of all the intelligences,
we help every student be all they can be.
Celebrating Uniqueness and Diversity If
we have but one ruler to measure intelligence, each student is smarter than
some
and dumber than others. When we break the ruler into eight separate rulers,
each student is not smarter or dumber, but has a unique pattern of intelligences
to be celebrated. By teaching our students about their uniqueness and valuing
diverse intelligences, we validate all students. Students enjoy a sense of self-worth,
and more readily respect the uniqueness of others.
|
|
