Not exact matches
Given the more popular goal
of meeting every child's unique learning style, teacher education (and therefore student learning) has been sidetracked with trendy
approaches to learning, such as
multiple intelligences, multicultural education, investigative learning, and so on.
Howard Gardner's concept
of multiple intelligences, insofar as it influences teachers and curricula, has widened the path so that students with a variety
of abilities can
approach excellence.
The knowledge required
of teachers to meet this standard builds on the findings
of cognitive psychology in stipulating that teachers must understand various learning styles and
approaches to learning, as elucidated in Howard Gardner's work on
multiple intelligences.
The A +
approach, developed by researchers in North Carolina, is grounded in Howard Gardner's theory
of multiple intelligences — the idea that people have eight
intelligences (verbal - linguistic, mathematical - logical, visual - spatial, bodily - kinesthetic, musical - rhythmic, interpersonal, intrapersonal, and naturalist), and schools must tap them all to help every child reach full potential.
As noted in Edutopia's
Multiple Intelligences brief, Harvard Professor Howard Gardner describes learning styles as how an individual
approaches a range
of tasks «categorized in different ways: visual / auditory / kinesthetic, impulsive / reflective, right brain / left brain, etc..
Given what we are dealing with, the
multiple intelligences [
approach] is making [kids] eager to learn, and they are taking ownership
of learning.
The theory became highly popular with K - 12 educators around the world seeking ways to reach students who did not respond to traditional
approaches, but over time, «
multiple intelligences» somehow became synonymous with the concept
of «learning styles.»
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Multiple Learning Approaches) Teaching and learning approaches should accommodate the diverse skills, abilities, and prior knowledge of young adolescents, cultivate multiple intelligences, draw upon students» individual learning styles, and utilize digita
Multiple Learning
Approaches) Teaching and learning approaches should accommodate the diverse skills, abilities, and prior knowledge of young adolescents, cultivate multiple intelligences, draw upon students» individual learning styles, and utilize digi
Approaches) Teaching and learning
approaches should accommodate the diverse skills, abilities, and prior knowledge of young adolescents, cultivate multiple intelligences, draw upon students» individual learning styles, and utilize digi
approaches should accommodate the diverse skills, abilities, and prior knowledge
of young adolescents, cultivate
multiple intelligences, draw upon students» individual learning styles, and utilize digita
multiple intelligences, draw upon students» individual learning styles, and utilize digital tools.
An arts - based
approach effectively responds to the way students learn as it taps into the varied learning styles
of students (i.e., visual learner / visual art, aural learner / music, kinesthetic learner / creative movement, etc.), thus engages all types
of learners (Howard Gardner's
Multiple Intelligence Theory).
Excerpt: When considering
Multiple Intelligences theory for educational practice, one must keep in mind that it is a theory
of intelligence; it is neither a specific educational method nor
approach.
One
of the differences between Dr. Montessori's
approach to early childhood education and the
approach found in many primary schools is the adoption
of elements
of the
multiple intelligences theory.
The basis
of these neuromyths have been well intentioned; Howard Gardner in his work on
multiple intelligences wasn't trying to invent a new way
of teaching, rather than debunk the post-war simplistic
approach that advocated that brains could be trained to do anything.
A holistic
approach to ADD / ADHD seeks to incorporate many
of these innovations into work with kids identified as ADD / ADHD, including
multiple intelligences, incidental learning, and educational technology.
A: I think that Loris Malaguzzi, the principal architect
of the Reggio
approach during the early years, found my general
approach to children sympathetic (I am very interested in the visual arts, for example, and I am a follower
of John Dewey and democratic education) and thought that my idea
of»
multiple intelligences might connect to his «hundred languages
of children.»