Addressing Multiple Learning Styles in Assignment Design

Addressing Multiple Learning Styles in Assignment Design Lynn Wright Pasadena City College

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I have a general understanding of Multiple Intelligences and how to apply it in the classroom.

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Learning Outcomes

 Understand the concept of Multiple Intelligences (MI)  Relate class activities and assessments to Multiple Intelligences  Create a lesson incorporating MI

Multiple Intelligences (Gardner)

“Intelligence is displayed, discovered, and developed through the context of meaningful, culturally significant activities.” Howard Gardner

Who said that “Intelligence is displayed, discovered, and developed through the context of meaningful, culturally significant activities”? 1.

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John Smith Jackson Browne Howard Gardner Ava Gardner

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Seven Intelligences

 Linguistic  Logical-Mathematical  Spatial  Musical  Bodily-Kinesthetic  Intrapersonal  Interpersonal

How many intelligences are there?

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Verbal/Linguistic Intelligence

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Highly developed auditory skills and are generally elegant speakers

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Think in words rather than pictures

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Skills include listening, speaking, writing, story telling, explaining, teaching, using humor, analyzing language usage, etc.

Logical/Mathematical Intelligence

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Think conceptually in logical and numerical patterns making connections between pieces of information

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Curious about the world around them, ask lots of questions & like to do experiments

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Skills include problem solving, classifying and categorizing information, working with abstract concepts, etc.

Visual/Spatial Intelligence

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Tend to think in pictures and create vivid mental images to retain information

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Enjoy looking at maps, charts, pictures, videos, and movies

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Skills include puzzle building, reading, writing, understanding charts and graphs, sketching, painting, manipulating images, constructing, fixing, designing practical objects, interpreting visual images

Musical/Rhythmic Intelligence

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Tend to think in musical sounds, rhythms, and patterns

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Respond to music

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May be sensitive to environmental sounds (e.g. crickets, bells, dripping taps)

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Skills include singing, whistling, playing musical instruments, recognizing tonal patterns, composing music, remembering melodies, understanding the structure and rhythm of music

Bodily/Kinesthetic Intelligence

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Tend to express themselves through movement

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Tend to have a good sense of balance and eye-hand co-ordination (e.g., ball play, balancing beams)

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Remember and process information through movement

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Skills include dancing, physical co-ordination, sports, hands on experimentation, using body language, crafts, acting, miming, using their hands to create or build

Intrapersonal Intelligence

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Try to understand their inner feelings, dreams, relationships with others, and strengths and weaknesses

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Skills include recognizing their own strengths and weaknesses, reflecting and analyzing themselves, awareness of their inner feelings, desires and dreams, evaluating their thinking patterns, reasoning with themselves, understanding their role in relationship to others

Interpersonal Intelligence

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Try to see things from other people's point of view in order to understand how they think and feel

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Tend to be organizers, encourage cooperation; try to maintain peace in group settings

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Skills include seeing things from other perspectives (dual-perspective), listening, using empathy, noticing/understanding other people's moods and feelings, counseling, communicating both verbally and non-verbally, building trust, peaceful conflict resolution, establishing positive relations with others

Developing a Unit

 Goal: explore learning through all intelligences  Design lessons to approach all intelligences  Use range of activities (individual problem solving, working as a team)  Assess learning through multiple measures

Backward Design

 Where are you headed? (outcomes)

Activities should be

SMART

 Specific  Measurable  Achievable  Realistic  Time Bound

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SMART SWOT FRANK SILLY DO-ABLE

Assessment (multiple measures)

 Tests must measure what we value (learning outcomes)  Every unit should have multiple measures of assessment (e.g., tests, essays, presentations, portfolios)  Assessments should have corresponding rubrics

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Bloom’s Taxonomy

Levels go from lowest to highest: Knowledge Evaluation Knowledge = Remembering Comprehension = Understanding Application = Solving Analysis = Analyzing Synthesis = Creating Evaluation = Judging Benjamin Bloom

Activity: Design a Lesson

 Select a lesson  Identify the lesson’s outcome(s)  Choose 3 intelligences to apply to lesson  Incorporate these 3 intelligences into lesson’s presentation/activities  Design outcome(s) assessments that employ multiple measures

Teaching Resources

 http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/intranet/committees/ FacDevCom/guidebk/teachtip/teachtip.htm

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