Gardner's Multiple Intelligences

 Have you ever wondered how some people could come up with a solution to a math problem with out a calculator, pencil or paper?   Why many people caetely different?  How some could pick up any instrument and be successful while others fail miserably?  The key is in the way each of us learn!  Gardner's multiple intelligences show us that there are at least eight different ways individuals learn.  The picture below is the result of a intelligence survey that we took in class.  All we had to do was mark each statement that applied to one's self.  In the end you add up your score in each section and it tells you how you learn best.  Below the listed intelligences we wrote our names where we scored the highest; our strengths.  Above were our lowest score; our weakest area.  Looking at the "big picture" we learn that in our small class many of us learn differently.  Now think about a class of 25-30 elementary students.  How many of them are going to learn the same way?  In the media we hear about how important it is to differentiate learning, but how often are teachers sticking to old way, the way they were taught?  This one picture shows the importance of taking the time to get to know one's students and finding another way of teaching the same content so that no child is left behind...that, of course, has been the goal all along.  Right?n look at the same piece of art and see something competely different?  How some could pick up any instrument and be successful while others fail miserably?  The key is in the way each of us learn!  Gardner's multiple intelligences show us that there are at least eight different ways individuals learn.  The picture below is the result of a intelligence survey that we took in class.  All we had to do was mark each statement that applied to one's self.  In the end you add up your score in each section and it tells you how you learn best.  Below the listed intelligences we wrote our names where we scored the highest; our strengths.  Above were our lowest score; our weakest area.  Looking at the "big picture" we learn that in our small class many of us learn differently.  Now think about a class of 25-30 elementary students.  How many of them are going to learn the same way?  In the media we hear about how important it is to differentiate learning, but how often are teachers sticking to old way, the way they were taught?  This one picture shows the importance of taking the time to get to know one's students and finding another way of teaching the same content so that no child is left behind...that, of course, has been the goal all along...right?